Publications
An evolving, mostly complete bibliography
Books | Essays | Magazine Articles | Book Chapters | Opinions | Encyclopedia Article
2025
News Articles
"La Conner's Moore-Clark Site Poised for New Chapter," La Conner Community News, April 8, 2025.https://laconnercommunitynews.org/2025/04/08/la-conners-moore-clark-site-poised-for-new-chapter/
"A new day for La Conner news, a glimpse of 1879," La Conner Community News, March 20, 2025. https://laconnercommunitynews.org/2025/03/20/a-new-day-for-la-conner-news-a-glimpse-of-1879/
“Why Count Birds?” Salish Current, January 6, 2025. https://salish-current.org/2025/01/06/why-count-birds/.
Opinions
"Cultural resources require nurturing, not eliminating," Salish Current, April 8, 2025.https://salish-current.org/2025/04/08/cultural-resources-require-nurturing-not-eliminating/
Blogs
"Cover Cropping's Many Benefits," Skagitonians to Preserve Farmland, The Dirt (blog), March 9, 2025. https://www.skagitonians.org/blog/cropcover
Encyclopedia Articles
"Experimental Forestry in Washington," HistoryLink.org, April 2, 2025. https://www.historylink.org/File/23231
“Northwest Forest Plan Goes into Effect on December 21, 1994.” In HistoryLink.Org, January 31, 2025. https://historylink.org/File/23146.
“Logging, Lumbering, and Forestry in the North Cascades.” In HistoryLink.Org, January 27, 2025. https://historylink.org/File/23147.
2024
Book Chapters
With Carr Childers, Leisl. “Hope in Public Lands: A Conversation.” In Wallace Stegner’s Unsettled Country: Ruin, Realism, and Possibility in the American West, edited by Mark Fiege, Michael J. Lansing, and Leisl Carr Childers, 183–212. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2024.
Academic and Literary Journal Articles/Essays
“Seeking Elk.” South Dakota Review, no. 3 (2024): 92–98.
Newspaper Articles
“Celebrating Alternative Agriculture: The 50th Anniversary for Tilth.” Salish Current, November 14, 2024. https://salish-current.org/2024/11/14/celebrating-alternative-agriculture-the-50th-anniversary-for-tilth/.
“Going for a Triple Win with Farm to School Programs.” Salish Current, September 25, 2024. https://salish-current.org/2024/09/25/going-for-a-triple-win-with-farm-to-school-programs/.
“There Was Hope Here.” Salish Current, August 1, 2024. https://salish-current.org/2024/08/01/there-was-hope-here/.
“Public Has Its Say in Comprehensive Planning.” Salish Current, July 9, 2024. https://salish-current.org/2024/07/09/public-has-its-say-in-comprehensive-planning/.
“There’s More to Farmers Markets than Meets the Eye.” Salish Current, June 6, 2024. https://salish-current.org/2024/06/06/theres-more-to-farmers-markets-than-meets-the-eye/.
“Local Flower-Farming Takes Root in a Global Economy.” Salish Current, May 28, 2024. https://salish-current.org/2024/05/28/local-flower-farming-takes-root-in-a-global-economy/.
“Keeping Wheat’s Story — and Profits — Local.” Salish Current, April 15, 2024. https://salish-current.org/2024/04/15/keeping-wheats-story-and-profits-local/.
“Skagit Agritourism Controversy Is about More than Weddings in Barns.” Salish Current, March 28, 2024. https://salish-current.org/2024/03/28/skagit-agritourism-controversy-is-about-more-than-weddings-in-barns/.
“Historical Museum Signs Mortenson for Exhibit.” La Conner Weekly News, March 20, 2024. https://www.laconnerweeklynews.com/story/2024/03/20/news/historical-museum-signs-mortenson-for-exhibit/10270.html.
“Still Centers of Farm Community, Granges Adapt in a Changing World.” Salish Current, March 13, 2024. https://salish-current.org/2024/03/13/still-centers-of-farm-community-granges-adapt-in-a-changing-world/.
“Wary Farmers Watch Weak Snowpack.” La Conner Weekly News, February 28, 2024. https://www.laconnerweeklynews.com/story/2024/02/28/news/wary-farmers-watch-weak-snowpack/10177.html.
“Library ... plus: Today’s Version Provides Much More than Books.” Salish Current, February 27, 2024. https://salish-current.org/2024/02/27/library-plus-todays-version-provides-much-more-than-books/.
“Skagit Ag Summit Explores Issues, Resources and Stories for Farmers.” La Conner Weekly News, February 14, 2024. https://www.laconnerweeklynews.com/story/2024/02/14/news/skagit-ag-summit-explores-issues-resources-and-stories-for-farmers/10122.html.
“Cultivating a Resilient Regional ‘seed to Sandwich’ Food System.” Salish Current, February 12, 2024. https://salish-current.org/2024/02/12/cultivating-a-resilient-regional-seed-to-sandwich-food-system/.
“Tony Angell Blends Art and Science to Explore Birds’ ‘Niches of Time.’” La Conner Weekly News, February 7, 2024. https://www.laconnerweeklynews.com/story/2024/02/07/a-and-e/tony-angell-blends-art-and-science-to-explore-birds-niches-of-time/10105.html.
“Birding Festival Features Skagit’s Abundance.” La Conner Weekly News, February 7, 2024. https://www.laconnerweeklynews.com/story/2024/02/07/news/birding-festival-features-skagits-abundance/10091.html.
“Bird Enthusiasts to Land at Maple Hall for Birding Festival.” La Conner Weekly News, January 17, 2024. https://www.laconnerweeklynews.com/story/2024/01/17/news/bird-enthusiasts-to-land-at-maple-hall-for-birding-festival/10020.html.
“Connecting Skagit’s Food Producers and Food Needs.” Salish Current, January 15, 2024. https://salish-current.org/2024/01/15/connecting-skagits-food-producers-and-food-needs/.
“Helping Hands Reach out to Help Meet Neighbors’ Needs.” La Conner Weekly News, January 10, 2024. https://www.laconnerweeklynews.com/story/2024/01/10/news/helping-hands-reach-out-to-help-meet-neighbors-needs/9994.html.
“Strengthening Local Food Ties in COVID’s Wake.” Salish Current, January 31, 2024. https://salish-current.org/2024/01/31/strengthening-local-food-ties-in-covids-wake/.
Blogs
“A More Secure Future for Flood Control.” Skagitonians to Preserve Farmland (blog), November 22, 2024. https://www.skagitonians.org/blog/floodcontrol.
“Rewards and Challenges of Local Sourcing.” Skagitonians to Preserve Farmland (blog), November 8, 2024. https://www.skagitonians.org/blog/localsourcing.
“Seeds and Change.” Skagitonians to Preserve Farmland (blog), September 7, 2024. https://www.skagitonians.org/blog/seedsandchange.
“Skagit County Fair Builds Tradition.” Skagitonians to Preserve Farmland (blog), August 3, 2024. https://www.skagitonians.org/blog/skagitcountyfair.
“Beezie + Co. Flower Farm Evokes Memories with Heirloom Blooms.” Skagitonians to Preserve Farmland (blog), July 15, 2024. https://www.skagitonians.org/blog/beezie.
“Local Meat Processing Seeks Stability.” Skagitonians to Preserve Farmland (blog), June 28, 2024. https://www.skagitonians.org/blog/meatprocessing.
“Hayton Farms Berries Plans Carefully for a Diverse Berry Business.” Skagitonians to Preserve Farmland (blog), June 14, 2024. https://www.skagitonians.org/blog/haytonberries.
“Connecting Farms, Fresh Food, and Community.” Skagitonians to Preserve Farmland (blog), May 28, 2024. https://www.skagitonians.org/blog/farmstand.
“SPF Crop Identification Signs Remind Us: We Live in a Very, Very Special Place.” Skagitonians to Preserve Farmland (blog), May 2, 2024. https://www.skagitonians.org/blog/cropid.
“Growing Community Spirit and Beauty at Garden Rosalyn.” Skagitonians to Preserve Farmland (blog), April 7, 2024. https://www.skagitonians.org/blog/gardenrosalyn.
“Tilling the Soil Less.” Skagitonians to Preserve Farmland (blog), March 25, 2024. https://www.skagitonians.org/blog/tillingless-5el9p.
“Dahlia Depot Farms Listens & Adapts.” Skagitonians to Preserve Farmland (blog), February 28, 2024. https://www.skagitonians.org/blog/dahliadepot.
“Price Takers Search for Stability and Advantages Amid Constraints.” Skagitonians to Preserve Farmland (blog), February 16, 2024. https://www.skagitonians.org/blog/pricetakers.
“Skinny Kitty Farms Is Stewarding Good Land and Cultivating Happy Customers.” Skagitonians to Preserve Farmland (blog), January 23, 2024. https://www.skagitonians.org/blog/skinnykitty.
Encyclopedia Articles
“Environmentalists Launch Ancient Forest Rescue Expedition from Seattle to Educate and Mobilize Public about Old-Growth Logging on April 22, 1989.” In HistoryLink.Org, December 29, 2024. https://historylink.org/File/23136.
“First World Conference on National Parks Convenes in Seattle on June 30, 1962.” In HistoryLink.Org, October 30, 2024. https://historylink.org/File/23098.
“Salmon Recovery in Washington.” In HistoryLink.Org, October 11, 2024. https://historylink.org/File/23069.
“Washington’s Timberlands (Part 1).” In HistoryLink.Org, May 20, 2024. https://historylink.org/File/22983.
“Mount St. Helens After the Eruption.” In HistoryLink.Org, April 24, 2024. https://historylink.org/File/22950.
“Mount St. Helens National Volcanic Monument Is Created on August 26, 1982.” In HistoryLink.Org, April 17, 2024. https://historylink.org/File/22951.
2023
Academic and Literary Journal Articles/Essays
“War and Geese.” Wild Roof Journal, November 2023.
“Wild Times.” Barzakh Magazine, Summer 2022. https://www.barzakhmag.net/summer-2022-in-nature-prose-2/2022/7/12/adam-m-sowards.
“Being Historically Faithful in Public.” Pacific Northwest Quarterly 114, no. 2/3 (Spring and Summer 2023): 57–62.
Magazine Articles
“Still on the Trail of the Common Good | Next Avenue.” Next Avenue, October 31, 2023. https://www.nextavenue.org/still-on-the-trail-of-the-common-good/.
“When American Governors and Moguls Came Together to Prevent Environmental Catastrophe | Essay.” Zócalo Public Square, August 17, 2023. http://www.zocalopublicsquare.org/council-governors-environment-catastrophe-common-good/.
“Once upon a Time in America, When the Common Good Prevailed - The Boston Globe.” Boston Globe, August 8, 2023. https://www.bostonglobe.com/2023/08/21/opinion/teddy-roosevelt-nonpartisan-conference-governors/. (alternate version of previous article)
“On This Disputed River, Progress May Mean a Return to the Past.” Smithsonian Magazine, May 25, 2023. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/on-this-disputed-river-progress-may-mean-a-return-to-the-past-180982223/.
News Articles
“In Touch with the Earth: There’s More than Marketing behind ‘organic’ Labels.” Salish Current, December 20, 2023. https://salish-current.org/2023/12/20/in-touch-with-the-earth-theres-more-than-marketing-behind-organic-labels/.
“Wildfire Fighting Is on a Year-Round Cycle.” Salish Current, December 13, 2023. https://salish-current.org/2023/12/13/wildfire-fighting-is-on-a-year-round-cycle/.
“Managing Food Insecurity Key to a Strong Local Food System.” La Conner Weekly News, December 20, 2023. https://www.laconnerweeklynews.com/story/2023/12/20/news/managing-food-insecurity-key-to-a-strong-local-food-system/9895.html.
“Skagit County Historical Museum’s Holiday Fundraiser Is This Saturday.” La Conner Weekly News, November 29, 2023. https://www.laconnerweeklynews.com/story/2023/11/29/a-and-e/skagit-county-historical-museums-holiday-fundraiser-is-this-saturday/9827.html.
“Skagit’s White Birds of Winter Are Ambassadors among Land Use, Values Conflicts.” Salish Current, November 22, 2023. https://salish-current.org/2023/11/22/skagits-white-birds-of-winter-are-ambassadors-among-land-use-values-conflicts/.
“2024 Tulip Festival Poster Unveiled, Plans Underway.” La Conner Weekly News, November 22, 2023. https://www.laconnerweeklynews.com/story/2023/11/22/news/2024-tulip-festival-poster-unveiled-plans-underway/9791.html.
“Skagit County Water Outlook Complicated, Challenging.” La Conner Weekly News, November 15, 2023. https://www.laconnerweeklynews.com/story/2023/11/15/news/skagit-county-water-outlook-complicated-challenging/9786.html.
“Returning Grizzly Bears to the North Cascades.” Salish Current, November 3, 2023. https://salish-current.org/2023/11/03/returning-grizzly-bears-to-the-north-cascades/.
“Farm Stand Neighbors Seasons Closing.” La Conner Weekly News, October 25, 2023. https://www.laconnerweeklynews.com/story/2023/10/25/news/farm-stand-neighbors-seasons-closing/9672.html.
“Birds’ Return Requires People to ‘Be Bird Wise.’” La Conner Weekly News, October 24, 2023. https://www.laconnerweeklynews.com/story/2023/10/25/community/birds-return-requires-people-to-be-bird-wise/9687.html.
“Barbers as Historians New Museum Exhibit.” La Conner Weekly News, October 11, 2023. https://www.laconnerweeklynews.com/story/2023/10/11/community/barbers-as-historians-new-museum-exhibit/9630.html.
“‘Surge’ Intersects Art and Science; Opens at MoNA Saturday.” La Conner Weekly News, October 11, 2023. https://www.laconnerweeklynews.com/story/2023/10/11/community/surge-intersects-art-and-science-opens-at-mona-saturday/9628.html.
“Skagit Habitat for Humanity Buys La Conner Property.” La Conner Weekly News, October 4, 2023. https://www.laconnerweeklynews.com/story/2023/10/04/news/skagit-habitat-for-humanity-buys-la-conner-property/9580.html.
“Gov. Inslee Comes to Anacortes for Housing Discussion.” La Conner Weekly News, October 4, 2023. https://www.laconnerweeklynews.com/story/2023/10/04/news/gov-inslee-comes-to-anacortes-for-housing-discussion/9578.html.
“Cutting Hair and Keeping History: Barbers as Local Story Keepers.” La Conner Weekly News, September 27, 2023. https://www.laconnerweeklynews.com/story/2023/09/27/news/cutting-hair-and-keeping-history-barbers-as-local-story-keepers/9567.html.
“Locals in Small Operation Take on ‘Tall Order’ in Marine Ecosystem.” Salish Current, September 22, 2023. https://salish-current.org/2023/09/22/locals-in-small-operation-take-on-tall-order-in-marine-ecosystem/.
“Drought Persists, Requires Adjustments and Acceptance.” La Conner Weekly News, September 20, 2023. https://www.laconnerweeklynews.com/story/2023/09/20/news/drought-persists-requires-adjustments-and-acceptance/9526.html.
“Signs of a Hidden Threat: Preparing for the Really Big One.” Salish Current, September 6, 2023. https://salish-current.org/2023/09/06/signs-of-a-hidden-threat-preparing-for-the-really-big-one/.
“Finding Happily Ever after in Skagit’s Ag Zone.” Salish Current, August 11, 2023. https://salish-current.org/2023/08/11/finding-happily-ever-after-in-skagits-ag-zone/.
“Keeping History Alive at Northern State Hospital.” La Conner Weekly News, August 9, 2023. https://www.laconnerweeklynews.com/story/2023/08/09/news/keeping-history-alive-at-northern-state-hospital/9372.html.
“Panning for Local History Gold at Darrington Ranger Station | HeraldNet.Com.” Everett Herald, June 14, 2023. https://www.heraldnet.com/news/panning-for-local-history-gold-at-darrington-ranger-station/.
Blog
“Making Dairies Work in Skagit Valley.” Skagitonians to Preserve Farmland (blog), December 8, 2023. https://www.skagitonians.org/blog/dairy.
“Boldly Growing Community.” Skagitonians to Preserve Farmland (blog), November 30, 2023. https://www.skagitonians.org/blog/boldlygrownfarm.
“Growing and Learning with First Cut Farm.” Skagitonians to Preserve Farmland (blog), October 26, 2023. https://www.skagitonians.org/blog/firstcutfarm.
“Farming in the Foothills.” Skagitonians to Preserve Farmland (blog), September 27, 2023. https://www.skagitonians.org/blog/farminginthefoothills.
“Voluntary Stewardship in Skagit County.” Skagitonians to Preserve Farmland (blog), September 1, 2023. https://www.skagitonians.org/blog/vsp.
“The Role of Large Scale Farms in Skagit Agriculture.” Skagitonians to Preserve Farmland (blog), June 2, 2023. https://www.skagitonians.org/blog/largescalefarms.
“The Role of Small Scale Farms in Skagit Agriculture.” Skagitonians to Preserve Farmland (blog), June 29, 2023. https://www.skagitonians.org/blog/smallscalefarms.
“Building an Agricultural Community through Crop Rotation and Land Trading.” Skagitonians to Preserve Farmland (blog), May 1, 2023. https://www.skagitonians.org/blog/croprotation.
“‘Accidental Birders’ Learn How to Be Bird Wise.” Skagitonians to Preserve Farmland (blog), April 3, 2023. https://www.skagitonians.org/blog/bebirdwise.
Encyclopedia Articles
“Congress Funds the Northwest Straits Initiative to Protect and Restore Marine Ecosystems on November 13, 1998.” In HistoryLink.Org, November 15, 2023. https://historylink.org/File/22838.
“U.S. Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas Protests a Proposed Ope.” In HistoryLink.Org, October 5, 2023. https://historylink.org/File/22799.
2022
Book
Making America’s Public Lands: The Contested History of Conservation on Federal Lands. The American Ways Series. Lanham (Md.): Rowman & Littlefield, 2022.
Magazine Articles
“How Did National Parks and Mining Get So Entangled?” Slate, November 4, 2022. https://slate.com/technology/2022/11/mining-national-parks-ulysses-grant.html.
“What Do Mining Claims and National Parks Have in Common? | Essay.” Zócalo Public Square, October 27, 2022. http://www.zocalopublicsquare.org/national-parks-mining-laws-conservation/. (alternate version of previous article)
“Op-Ed: How the U.S. Came to Protect the Natural World — and Exploit It at the Same Time.” Los Angeles Times, September 25, 2022, sec. Opinion. https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2022-09-25/yellowstone-park-mining-land-use-act-1872. (alternate version of previous article)
“Stones in a Stream.” Talking River Review, no. 53 (Fall 2022): 125.
“Submerged Stories, Breaching History.” Wild Roof Journal, July 2022.
2021
Academic and Literary Journal Articles/Essays
“When You Know the Price of a Huckleberry.” Weber--The Contemporary West 38, no. 1 (Fall 2021): 110–18.
“Seeds.” Stonecoast Review, no. 15 (Summer 2021): 118–24.
Magazine Articles
“The Slaughter of Elk at Yellowstone National Park.” JSTOR Daily, August 18, 2021. https://daily.jstor.org/the-slaughter-of-elk-at-yellowstone-national-park/.
2020
Book
An Open Pit Visible from the Moon: The Wilderness Act and the Fight to Protect Miners Ridge and the Public Interest. Environment in Modern North America. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2020.
Academic and Literary Journal Articles/Essays
“Fighting Kennecott from the Supervisor’s Office: Harold Chriswell, the Wilderness Act, and Independence in the North Cascades.” Forest History Today, Spring/Fall 2020, 26–33.
“Floating through the Parks.” Montana Mouthful, June 2020. https://issuu.com/montanamouthful/docs/mmv3iss2issuu.
Magazine Articles
“An Evolving Idea: The Perils and Promise of the Federal Landscape.” Desert Report, September 2020.
“No Sacrifices of the Public Interest in Times of Emergency.” The Revelator, May 6, 2020. https://therevelator.org/no-sacrifices-public-interest/.
“Boeing’s History Reveals Connections and Disconnections in the West’s Economy.” High Country News, February 18, 2020. https://www.hcn.org/issues/52.3/reckoning-with-history-boeings-history-reveals-connections-and-disconnections-in-the-wests-economy.
2019
Magazine Articles
“NEPA Transformed Federal Land Management — and Has Fallen Short.” High Country News, December 6, 2019. https://www.hcn.org/issues/52.1/reckoning-with-history-nepa-transformed-federal-land-management-and-has-fallen-short.
“Economic Giants Drive Income Inequality in a Second Gilded Age.” High Country News, November 27, 2019. https://www.hcn.org/issues/51.21-22/reckoning-with-history-economic-giants-drive-income-inequality-in-a-second-gilded-age.
“The Man Who Tried to Claim the Grand Canyon.” JSTOR Daily, July 31, 2019. https://daily.jstor.org/the-man-who-tried-to-claim-the-grand-canyon/.
“Renegotiating the Columbia River Treaty, Six Decades Later.” High Country News, July 5, 2019. https://www.hcn.org/issues/51.12/reckoning-with-history-renegotiating-the-columbia-river-treaty-six-decades-later.
“Mining Laws Have Long Been Used for Recreation.” High Country News, May 24, 2019. https://www.hcn.org/issues/51.11/reckoning-with-history-mining-laws-have-long-been-used-for-recreation.
“Critics of the Green New Deal Rail against Socialism. We’ve Seen This before.” High Country News, April 5, 2019. https://www.hcn.org/issues/51.7/reckoning-with-history-critics-of-the-green-new-deal-rail-against-socialism-weve-seen-this-before.
“It’s Time to Revisit an Old Way to Resolve Public Land Fights.” High Country News, February 26, 2019. https://www.hcn.org/issues/51.5/reckoning-with-history-its-time-to-revisit-an-old-way-to-resolve-public-land-disputes.
2018
Book Chapter
“Confronting Kennecott in the Cascades.” In The Nature of Hope: Grassroots Organizing, Environmental Justice, and Political Change, edited by Char Miller and Jeff Crane, 251–82. Louisville, CO: University Press of Colorado, 2018.
Academic and Literary Journal Articles/Essays
“Sometimes, It Takes a Table.” Environmental History 23, no. 1 (January 2018): 143–51. https://doi.org/10.1093/envhis/emx122.
Magazine Articles
“Reckoning with History: How the Once-Radical Endangered Species Act Was Weakened.” High Country News, November 16, 2018. https://www.hcn.org/articles/reckoning-with-history-how-the-once-radical-endangered-species-act-was-weakened.
“Reckoning with History: When We Overcame Political Division — High Country News.” High Country News, October 5, 2018. https://www.hcn.org/articles/reckoning-with-history-lessons-on-overcoming-political-divisions-50-years-ago-conservation.
“Reckoning with History: Wildfire Suppression Is a Decades-Old Conundrum — High Country News.” High Country News, August 29, 2018. https://www.hcn.org/articles/reckoning-with-history-wildfire-suppression-in-wilderness-a-decades-old-conundrum.
“Coastal Drilling Protesters to Trump: Take a Hike.” Crosscut, August 2018. https://crosscut.com/2018/08/coastal-drilling-protesters-trump-take-hike.
“Reckoning with History: The Legacy of Lynching in the West — High Country News.” High Country News, July 13, 2018. https://www.hcn.org/articles/reckoning-with-history-the-legacy-of-lynching-in-the-West.
“America’s National Parks Were Never Wild and Untouched | Essay.” Zócalo Public Square, June 11, 2018. http://www.zocalopublicsquare.org/2018/06/11/americas-national-parks-never-wild-untouched/ideas/essay/.
“Reckoning with History: The Devolution of Conservation’s Trust Fund.” High Country News, June 8, 2018. https://www.hcn.org/articles/reckoning-with-history-the-devolution-of-the-land-and-water-conservation-fund.
“Reckoning with History: The Parks Have Been Fixed before — High Country News.” High Country News, April 11, 2018. https://www.hcn.org/issues/50.7/history-reckoning-with-history-the-parks-have-been-fixed-before.
“Reckoning with History: The Antiquities Act Quandary — High Country News.” High Country News, February 22, 2018. https://www.hcn.org/articles/reckoning-with-history-the-antiquities-act-and-federal-checks.
“Border Security Will Always Be Elusive.” High Country News, January 14, 2018. https://www.hcn.org/articles/reckoning-with-history-border-security-will-always-be-elusive.
“Reckoning with History: Interior’s Legacy of Bad Behavior.” High Country News, January 3, 2018. https://www.hcn.org/articles/reckoning-with-history-interiors-legacy-of-bad-behavior.
2017
Book Chapter
“Finding Complexity in a Ditch: Hugh T. Lovin and Idaho Irrigation History.” In Complexity in a Ditch: Bringing Water to the Idaho Desert, by Hugh T. Lovin, 1–14. Pullman: Washington State University Press, 2017.
Academic and Literary Journal Articles/Essays
With Brynn M. Lacabanne. “Instituting Water Research: The Water Resources Research Act (1964) and the Idaho Water Resources Research Institute.” Water History 9, no. 3 (September 2017): 295–316. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12685-016-0190-x.
“Claiming Spaces for Science: Scientific Exploration and the Canadian Arctic Expedition of 1913–1918.” Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences 47, no. 2 (April 2017): 164–99. https://doi.org/10.1525/hsns.2017.47.2.164.
Magazine Articles
“Why Sheep Started So Many Wars in the American West | Essay.” Zócalo Public Square, October 5, 2017. http://www.zocalopublicsquare.org/2017/10/05/sheep-started-many-wars-american-west/ideas/essay/.
“The Trump Administration’s Review of National Monuments Smacks of Paternalism.” History News Network, May 28, 2017. http://historynewsnetwork.org/article/165999.
“In Latest Skirmish of Western Land Wars, Congress Supports Mining and Ranching.” The Conversation, February 20, 2017. http://theconversation.com/in-latest-skirmish-of-western-land-wars-congress-supports-mining-and-ranching-73032.
Blog
“Public Lands, Private Profit.” OUPblog (blog), October 29, 2017. https://blog.oup.com/2017/10/public-lands-america-private-profit/.
Encyclopedia Articles
“Public Lands and Their Administration.” Oxford Research Encyclopedia of American History, August 22, 2017. https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780199329175.013.396.
2016
Book
With Idaho Heritage Trust. Bridging the Past, Present, and Future: Commemorating 25 Years of the Idaho Heritage Trust. Boise: Idaho Heritage Trust, 2016.
Book Chapter
“Pleading for Posterity: Idaho Wilderness in Time.” In Idaho Wilderness Considered, edited by Murray Feldman and Jennifer Emery Davidson, 33–48. Boise: Idaho Humanities Council, 2016.
Magazine Articles
“Sometimes, the West Must Be Protected from Itself.” High Country News, July 28, 2016. https://www.hcn.org/issues/48.13/sometimes-the-west-must-be-protected-from-itself.
“No, Ted Cruz, Westerners Should Not Follow in Texas’ Footsteps.” High Country News, March 30, 2016. https://www.hcn.org/articles/no-ted-cruz-westerners-should-not-follow-in-texas-footsteps.
2015
Academic and Literary Journal Articles/Essays
“Protecting American Lands with Justice William O. Douglas.” The George Wright Forum 32, no. 2 (2015): 165–73.
Magazine Articles
“Traveling Ecologist Rexford F. Daubenmire.” Washington State Magazine, September 2015. https://magazine.wsu.edu/2015/08/16/traveling-ecologist-rexford-f-daubenmire/.
“Should Nature Have Standing to Sue?” High Country News, January 19, 2015. https://www.hcn.org/issues/47.1/should-nature-have-standing-to-sue.
2014
Book
Idaho’s Place: A New History of the Gem State. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2014.
Book Chapter
“Idaho’s Place: Reckoning with History.” In Idaho’s Place: A New History of the Gem State, edited by Adam M. Sowards, 3–12. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2014.
Academic and Literary Journal Articles/Essays
With Rebecca Stunz. “Mobile Nature, Cooperative Management, and Institutional Adaptation in Pacific Northwest Blister Rust Control in the 20th Century.” Pacific Northwest Quarterly 105, no. 4 (Fall 2014): 159–74.
2013
Academic and Literary Journal Articles/Essays
“Making the Idaho Landscape of 1863.” Idaho Landscapes, March 2013, 5–17.
2012
Book Chapter
With Hirt, Paul W. “The Past and Future of the Columbia River.” In The Columbia River Treaty Revisited: Transboundary River Governance in the Face of Uncertainty, edited by Barbara Cosens, 115–36. Corvallis: Oregon State University Press, 2012. http://adamsowards.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/past-and-future-of-the-columbia-river-hirt-sowards.pdf.
2011
Academic and Literary Journal Articles/Essays
“Introduction: Roots and Branches: Environmentalism and the American West.” Journal of the West 50, no. 1 (Winter 2011): 9–12.
2010
Academic and Literary Journal Articles/Essays
“‘We’re All Kinda Crazy’: Smokejumpers and Western Forests.” Oral History Forum d’histoire Orale 30 (2010). http://www.oralhistoryforum.ca/index.php/ohf/article/view/389.
“Virgin Forest to Modern Farm: Picturing Ecological Change in Northern Idaho’s Cutover Land.” Idaho Yesterdays 50, no. 2 (June 2010). http://idahoyesterdays.net/idahoyesterdays/index.php/IY/article/view/17.
2009
Book
The Environmental Justice: William O. Douglas and American Conservation. Corvallis: Oregon State University Press, 2009.
2007
Book
United States West Coast: An Environmental History. ABC-CLIO’s Nature and Human Societies Series. Santa Barbara, Calif: ABC-CLIO, 2007.
2006
Academic and Literary Journal Articles/Essays
“William O. Douglas’s Wilderness Politics: Public Protest and Committees of Correspondence in the Pacific Northwest.” Western Historical Quarterly 37, no. 1 (Spring 2006): 21–42. https://doi.org/10.2307/25443282.
2005
Academic and Literary Journal Articles/Essays
“Modern Ahabs in Texas: William O. Douglas and Lone Star Conservation.” Journal of the West 44, no. 4 (Fall 2005): 39–46.
2002
Book Chapter
“William O. Douglas: The Environmental Justice.” In The Human Tradition in the American West, edited by Benson Tong and Regan Lutz, 155–70. Wilmington, Delaware: Scholarly Resources, Inc., 2002.
2000
Academic and Literary Journal Articles/Essays
“Administrative Trials, Environmental Consequences, and the Use of History in Arizona’s Tonto National Forest, 1926-1996.” Western Historical Quarterly 31, no. 2 (Summer 2000): 189–214. https://doi.org/10.2307/970062.
1999
Book Chapter
“Spiritual Egalitarianism: John Muir’s Religious Environmentalism.” In John Muir in Historical Perspective, edited by Sally M. Miller, 123–36. New York: Peter Lang Publishing, 1999.
1998
Academic and Literary Journal Articles/Essays
“Reclamation, Ranching, and Reservation: Environmental, Cultural, and Governmental Rivalries in Transitional Arizona.” Journal of the Southwest 40, no. 3 (Autumn 1998): 333–61.