Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Thirty Years of the United States Regional Association of the International Association for Landscape Ecology (USIALE): The Evolution of Its Organization and Science -- 2. Launching Landscape Ecology in America and Learning from Europe -- 3. Right Time at the Right Place in History -- 4. Twenty-five Years of United States Landscape Ecology: Looking Back and Forging Ahead -- 5. History and Evolution of the Journal -- 6. Historical Perspectives from Former Presidents of USIALE -- 7. Significant Theories, Principles, and Approaches that Emerged within Landscape Ecology during the Previous Thirty Years -- 8. Transforming Fields of Study in Landscape Ecology -- 9. A Tale of Two Continents: The Growth and Maturation of Landscape Ecology in North America and Australia -- 10. Landscape Ecology at Oak Ridge National Laboratory -- 11. A Future for USIALE -- Index.