Anthony E. Carlson received his B. A. in History and Political Science in 2002 from Hastings College and his M. A. in History in 2004 from the University of Tulsa.  Mr. Carlson’s scholarly interests include North American environmental history, American water policy, and the twentieth-century U. S.  Now a Ph. D. candidate, he is writing a dissertation examining national and local wetlands policy from 1849-1920 which reevaluates the origins, ideologies, and state-building impact of the Progressive conservation movement.  Mr. Carlson has received dissertation funding from the James J. Hill Reference Library, the Charles Redd Center for Western Studies at Brigham Young University, the American Heritage Center, and Duke University’s Forest History Society.  He has given conference papers at the Agricultural History Conference, the American Society for Environmental History, and the Mid-America Conference on History.  Mr. Carlson teaches an upper-level course in American Environmental History and is scheduled to teach both halves of the U. S. survey in the future.