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Rainforest Radicals

David Benac, PhD

Environmental and Public Historian

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"A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability, and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise." Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There (1949)

Research Interests

My research focuses on the meaning people find in the natural world and how they work to protect the places they love.

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Selected Publications

David Benac, Rainforest Radicals: A History of Rainforest Action Network and Transnational Organizing (University of Nebraska Press, 2026)

David Benac Conflict in the Ozarks: Hill Folk, Industrialists, and Government in the Courtois Hills (Truman State University, 2010) 

David Benac "The New Orleans Lakefront: Created Land and Planned Development," Journal of Urban History (May 2015)

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Department of History
4301 Friedmann Hall

1903 W Michigan Ave
Kalamazoo, MI 49008

david.benac@wmich.edu

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