Watt, Laura

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Laura Watt, Assistant Professor, Department of Environmental Studies and Planning.

The Bay Area’s Solar Salt Industry: An Unintended Conservationist

Watt, Laura; Johnck, Ellen Joslin (California History, 2014)

Now part of a 15,100-acre restoration project, the salt ponds of the southern San Francisco Bay have a long history of industrial use and management. Early developers of these lands in the late 1800s modified the marshy ...
On Preserving Ecological and Cultural Landscapes

Watt, Laura; Raymond, Leigh; Eschen, Meryl L. (Environmental History, 2004)

This paper highlights the parallel evolution of the Endangered Species Act (ESA) of 1973 and the National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA) of 1966 in the USA. It begins by reviewing the precursors to both laws, noting their ...
The Trouble with Preservation, or, Getting Back to the Wrong Term for Wilderness Protection: A Case Study at Point Reyes National Seashore

Watt, Laura (Yearbook of the Association of Pacific Coast Geographers, 2002)

How “untrammeled” must a wilderness be at the time it is designated as such? Should the intent behind designating wilderness areas be to protect existing areas that meet the official definition, or to create new ones ...