Contents -- Foreword: Still Searching for Eden at the End of the Oregon Trail, by William Cronon -- Preface -- Prologue: A Time to Remember -- I. Postwar Promise -- 1. The Great Hope for the New Order -- 2. Into the Brave New World -- II. Making Agriculture Modern -- 3. Bringing Perfection to the Fields -- 4. The Wonder World of Pesticides -- III. Industrial Forestry Management -- 5. Planning and Technical E‹ciency in the Forests -- 6. Intensive Forestry and Citizen Activism -- IV. Of Rivers and Land -- 7. Richard Neuberger's Conservation Politics -- 8. Tom McCall and the Struggle for the Willamette -- 9. Ecologies of Sprawl: The Land-Use Nexus -- Epilogue: This Special Place -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.