However, environmental historians rarely identity spatial re organization or interpret landscapes. This scholarly arena belongs to historical geographers. Historical geographers consider human definition of environments by examining the spatial organization of society, its construction of nature, and its representation of social values including economic activity in landscape transformation in past times. Superior Basin are those established by geographers who are sensitive to regional formation, the social construction of nature, spatial patterns of behavior, and landscape transformation. Geographers utilize methods for gathering and synthesizing data common to all social scientists including both qualitative and quantitative methods.
Geographers synthesize data to observe relationships.
The strength of relationships is a key to regional sustainability and recognition of the intimacies of humans and physical Earth features. The identified protocols for studying human dimensions are a geographical analysis of historic events and activities, analysis of statistical measurements of spatial connectedness, and in-depth interviews of local residents. A test of these identified protocols was conducted at a sub-regional scale along a portion of the south shore of Lake Superior known as Chequamegon Bay. The success of these protocols and their ability to promote a synthesis of thought is described following the examination of the Greater Chequamegon Bay.