Home  | Site Index  | Organization  | Programs  | Archives   |  Publications   |  Global Connections  | Membership

PUBLICATIONS

Summer 1989 Issue of FOCUS

FOCUS on Geography Index

Subscribe to FOCUS

FOCUS on Geography Magazine

Geographical Review

Ubique

Maps, Atlases, and Books

 

FOCUS on Geography
Volume 39, #2, Summer 1989

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Feature Articles:

  Wildfire in the West's Woods: Fire Policy in the Wake of the Fires of 1988, by Gordon Matzke and Douglas Key.

  Suminagashi: "Black Ink Floating", by Thomas Leech.

  Corn: A Photo-Essay, by John Fraser Hart.

  Geographic Information Systems: What They Are and How They Work, by Shelby P. Jessup and Ernestine Cary.

  Regaining Land Productivity; Part II, by Sandra Postel.

Reviews:

  Trespassers on the Roof of the World by J. P. Tarcher,
  A Mountain in Tibet by Charles Allen,
  A Desert Dies by Michael Asher,
Reviewed by Robert W. McColl.

Departments:

  Top Texan Evocative Place-Names, by Robert O. Wilbur.

  Cisco, Utah - Destination or Bypass?, by Hilary Lambert Renwick.

  Destination Unknown, by Robert S. Weber.

  Logo and Geography Teaching, by Marc Eichen.

  Puerto Rico, by Bret Wallach.

  Striped Bass, by Steven D. Garber.

  Wine List Geography, by Harm J. de Blij.