Acknowledgments

I begin by thanking some colleagues and organizations who directly helped with the book. Jennifer Rovito prepared the maps and selected the photos. Some of the photos are spectacular, showing the places much more effectively than we could with maps. I thank ESRI for having these available. I thank Mary Fetzer, a librarian at Rutgers University, for using her librarian skills to help me find a variety of EISs. Frank Popper, my colleague for more than twenty years, discussed the kinds of case studies to feature and was my expert for Chapter 7. I thank Kevin Brown, Governor Brendan Byrne, John Hnedak, Elizabeth Jeffery, David Kosson, Lauren O'Donnell, Frank Popper, Martin Robins, and Robert Waldman for talking to me about specific EISs. The vast majority of the maps are slight modifications of maps presented in the EISs acknowledged within the book. John Hnedak provided two photos from National Park Service archives shown in Chapter 3. We acknowledge those who assisted in preparing not only the maps and figures, but also the text.

I thank the leaders who sparked my interest in NEPA and the EIS. The 1970s started with an environmental melodrama. The first act was NEPA, starring President Nixon, Russell Train, William Ruckelshaus, Senators Edmund Muskie and Henry Jackson, and Lynton Caldwell as the key actors. This EIS requirement has lasted for four decades; while EISs are published, and Congressional hearings are held, the Environmental Impact Assessment Review is the major source of information that has sustained my interest, and I commend the journal's editors.