James Pritchard

515-294-8830, Fax 515-294-2995
jpritch@iastate.edu
http://www.public.iastate.edu/~jpritch/

B.A., Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, 1976
M.A. History, Montana State University, 1991
Teaching Certificate in Social Studies, Montana State University, 1989
Ph.D. Environmental History, History of Science, University of Kansas, 1996

Teaching

A Ecl 450X, History of Wildlife Conservation.
A Ecl 532, Human Dimensions of Wildlife Management.
NREM 120, Introduction to Renewable Resources.
NREM 381X/481X, Natural Resource Policy.
L A 461/561, Resource Conservation and Management.
L A 474, History, Environment, and Landscape.
Env S 201, Introduction to Environmental Issues.
Env S 303, Great Environmental Writers.

Research

Dr. Pritchard's research interests start with environmental history, and include science in the national parks, the history of animal ecology, the history of wildlife in North America, and the foundations of natural resource policy and management.

Publications

James Pritchard.  “Mountain Home, Prairie Home,” 2008, forthcoming in Wapsipinicon Almanac No. 15.

James A. Pritchard, Diane M. Debinski, Brian Olechnowski, and Ron Vannimwegen.  “The Landscape of Paul Errington’s Work.”  Wildlife Society Bulletin  Vol. 34, No. 5 (2006):  1411-16.  Peer Edited. 

James Pritchard.  “Prairie Cemeteries:  Memories and Biological Heritage.”  The Iowan 54 No. 4 (March /Apr. 2006): 14-16. 

 James Pritchard.  “Threatened by Industry, Saved by Science: Mussel Propagation at the Fairport Biological Laboratory.”  Journal of the Iowa Academy of Science V. 112 No. 3-4 (July-December 2005): 36-47.  Peer Reviewed.

 James Pritchard.  “Charles C. Adams and Early Ecological Rationales for Yellowstone National Park, 1916-1941.”  Reprinted in People and Place:  The Human Experience in Greater Yellowstone.  Proceedings of the 4th Biennial Scientific Conference on the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem.  Yellowstone Center for Resources, 2004. 

James Pritchard.  Epilogue to Preserving Yellowstone’s Natural Conditions:  Science and the Perception of Nature.  Reprinted in Ecological Restoration 21(No. 4, December 2003):  254-257. 

Diane M. Debinski and James Pritchard.  Guide to the Butterflies of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem.  Roberts Rinehart, 2002.  Peer Reviewed.

James Pritchard.  “Wildlife, Ecological, and Wilderness Values in the National Parks.”  The George Wright Forum (June, 2002).  Invited Paper. 

Randal Beeman and James Pritchard.  A Green and Permanent Land: Ecology and Agriculture in the Twentieth Century.  Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2001.  Peer Reviewed. 

James Pritchard.  Preserving Yellowstone’s Natural Conditions:  Science and the Perception of Nature. University of Nebraska Press, 1999.  Peer Reviewed. 

“Charles C. Adams and Early Ecological Rationales for Yellowstone National Park, 1916-1941.”  The George Wright Forum 15 (No. 4, 1998): 27-35.  Invited Paper.

In Submission

“Response to The Omnivore’s Dilemma,” invited paper with Agricultural History.

In Prepartion

“Clamming on the Mississippi,” short essay for “Gallery” in Environmental History. 

“The Marsh Ethic:  Paul Errington & Midwestern Wetlands,” also for EH.

“Charles C. Adams and the Politics of Preservation.”  Target:  Environmental History.

"Role of Scientists during the 1920s in Park Establishment and Development," for George Wright Forum.