Contents -- Foreword by William Croonon -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue: The Essence of Place -- I. The Early Historic Period, 1800-1850 -- The Native Ecological Context -- The Great Divide -- II. Settler Occupation and the Advent of Industrialism, 1850-1890 -- Prescripting the Landscape -- Technology and Abundance -- Into the Hinterland -- III. Extending the Industrial Infrastructure, 1890-1940 -- Nature's Industries and the Rhetoric of Industrialism -- Industrializing the Woodlands -- Engineering Nature -- Toward Systemic Change -- Epilogue: One Moment in Time -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.