Introduction, Toward a twenty-first century forest ecosystem management strategy / Christopher J. Huggard --
Industry and Indian self-determination : northern Arizona's Apache lumbering empire, 1870-1970 / Arthur R. Gómez --
Social history of McPhee : Colorado's largest lumber town / Duane A. Smith --
Vallecitos federal sustained-yield unit : the (all too) human dimension of forest management in northern New Mexico, 1945-1998 / Suzanne S. Forrest --
Grazing the southwest borderlands : the Peloncillo-Animas district of the Coronado National Forest in Arizona and New Mexico, 1906-1996 / Diane Hadley --
America's first wilderness area : Aldo Leopold, the Forest Service, and the Gila of New Mexico, 1924-1980 / Christopher J. Huggard --
"Where there's smoke" : wildfire policy and suppression in the American Southwest / John Herron --
Struggle in an endangered empire : the search for total ecosystem management in the forests of southern Utah, 1976-1999 / Thomas G. Alexander --
Biopolitics : a case study of political influence on forest management decisions, Coronado National Forest, Arizona, 1980s-1990s / Paul W. Hirt --
Epilogue, Seeing the forest not for the trees : the future of southwestern forests / Hal K. Rothman.