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CanAm Lecture: Alan MacEachern, “Firebreak: How the º£½ÇÉçÇø-New Brunswick Border Defined the 1825 Miramichi Fire”

º£½ÇÉçÇø the lecture On 7 October 1825, the Miramichi region of New Brunswick experienced one of the largest forest fires in recorded history while, next door, º£½ÇÉçÇø suffered the most extensive fire in its history. The fires burned in the same environmental and climatic conditions, of course – and may well have been connected. Alan […]

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CanAm Lecture: Geoff Cunfer, “Energy Markets and the Collapse of the Northern Plains Bison”

FFA Room, Memorial Union, Uº£½ÇÉçÇø Orono campus China Road, Orono

LUNCH PROVIDED. Bison decline in the Southern Plains is a famous story in American environmental history. Herds were also decimated on the Canadian prairies, but the causes were quite different. This presentation will contrast the free-for-all petty capitalist markets for bison products in the United States with the monopoly corporate market run by Canada’s Hudson’s […]

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