ABSTRACT
In 1990, ESA celebrated its 75th anniversary at the August annual meeting, held at the Snowbird Resort in Little Cottonwood Canyon in the midst of the National Forests in the Wasatch Mountains, Utah. Three retrospective symposia held there are reviewed in the March 1991 Bulletin. In unusual detail (4.5 pages), Earl Werner reviewed the symposium which Richard Root and Donald Shure had organized, “Changing Perspectives on Some Long-Standing Problems in Ecology.” One speaker was James Brown, and Werner stated that this symposium “prompted” Brown and Leslie Real to edit their Foundations of Ecology: Classic Papers with Commentaries. In their preface, however, they indicate that they had begun work on it after Real taught a course on ecology classics in 1987, but that the Snowbird Symposia had “given impetus” to their project (Real & Brown 1991:xiii). The other two symposia reviewed in March were “Long-Term Dynamics of Vegetational Patterns in Mountainous Regions of North and South America,” organized by Jane Beiswenger and Stephen Jackson (Baker 1991) and “Equilibrium and Non-Equilibrium Paradigms,” organized by S. T. A. Pickett and Margaret Bryan Davis (Murdoch 1991).
