Catherine McNeur

Catherine McNeur is Assistant Professor of Environmental History and Public History at Portland State University. She is the award-winning author of Taming Manhattan: Environmental Battles in the Antebellum City (Harvard University Press, 2014). McNeur earned her Ph.D. in History at Yale University in 2012.

Author's Entries

  • Heritage Trees of Portland

    The Heritage Tree program in Portland celebrates and protects trees that are considered significant to the city for their “age, size, type, historical association, or horticultural value.” With approximately three hundred trees designated as Heritage Trees, Portland has one of the most extensive tree landmarking programs in the country. Heritage …

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