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Nature 459, 167-168 (14 May 2009) | doi:10.1038/459167a; Published online 13 May 2009

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Ecology lost and found

Jon Christensen1

BOOK REVIEWEDParadise Found: Nature in America at the Time of Discovery

by Steve Nicholls

University of Chicago Press: 2009. 536 pp. $30

"We don't need history," I recently heard a conservation scientist tell a group of students. He was being provocative, targeting those ecologists who treat the past as a baseline to which we should return.