I'm currently living in northern New Mexico where I conduct research on my dissertation titled (tentatively) "Making the Forest a Factory: Nature, Work, and Regulation in Northern New Mexico". I'm looking historically at the dispossession of Spanish and Mexican land grants and the contemporary struggle over land and resources that serve as the foundation of recent environmental conflict on federal forests in New Mexico. Through a case study of the rural, largely Hispano villages in what is currently managed as a sustained yield timber unit on the Carson National Forest in Vallecitos, New Mexico, I consider the ecological and economic impact of enclosure and the subsequent transition from subsistence agropastoral production to industrial forestry. I will defend my dissertation in March 2006.