In March 2000, I joined an environmental justice field trip that met with women of Washington State’s Shoalwater Bay Indian Tribe. One of the poorest tribes in the West, the Shoalwater people were losing their tiny reservation to erosion and legal battles, and they were losing their future to a mysterious run of miscarriages. One […]
Author Archives: Nancy Langston
Nancy Langston is a professor in the Department of Forest and Wildlife Ecology and the Nelson Institute of Environmental Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. She is past-president of the American Society for Environmental History and editor of Environmental History, the world’s leading scholarly journal in environmental history. Her most recent book is Toxic Bodies: Hormone Disruptors and the Legacy of DES.