This page serves as a master bibliography of my non-academic publications in reverse chronological order. I often conceive of this work as “public writing.” It includes a variety of genres, from opinion pieces to personal essays. Please look through the more curated lists (accessed through the menu), which makes navigating this collection much easier. On those more specialized pages, most of these publications are linked to the texts.
2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015
2024
“Keeping wheat’s story–and profits–local,” Salish Current, April 15, 2024.
“Growing Community Spirit and Beauty at Garden Rosalyn,” Meet a Farmer, Skagitonians to Preserve Farmland, April 2024.
“Skagit agritourism controversy is about more than weddings in barns,” Salish Current, March 28, 2024.
“Tilling the Soil Less,” The Dirt, Skagitonians to Preserve Farmland, March 2024.
“Historical Museum signs Mortenson for exhibit,” La Conner Weekly News, March 20, 2024.
“Still centers of farm community, Granges adapt in a changing world,” Salish Current, March 13, 2024.
“Dahlia Depot Farms Listens and Adapts,” Meet a Farmer, Skagitonians to Preserve Farmland, February 2024.
“Wary farmers watch weak snowpack,” La Conner Weekly News, February 28, 2024.
“Library . . . plus: today’s version provides much more than books,” Salish Current, February 27, 2024.
“Price Takers Search for Stability and Advantages Amid Constraints,” The Dirt, Skagitonians to Preserve Farmland, February 16, 2024.
“Skagit Ag Summit explores issues, resources and stories for farmers,” La Conner Weekly News, February 14, 2024.
“Cultivating a resilient regional ‘seed to sandwich’ food system,” Salish Current, February 12, 2024.
“Birding Festival features Skagit’s abundance,” La Conner Weekly News, February 7, 2024.
“Tony Angell blends art and science to explore birds’ ‘niches of time,'” La Conner Weekly News, February 7, 2024.
“Strengthening local food ties in COVID’s wake,” Salish Current, January 31, 2024.
“Skagit Ag Summit gathers experts and farmers,” La Conner Weekly News, January 31, 2024.
“Skinny Kitty Farms Is Stewarding Good Land and Cultivating Happy Customers,” Meet a Farmer, Skagitonians to Preserve Farmland, January 23, 2024.
“Bird enthusiasts to land at Maple Hall for Birding Festival,” La Conner Weekly News, January 17, 2024.
“Connecting Skagit’s food producers and food needs,” Salish Current, January 15, 2024.
“Helping Hands reach out to help meet neighbors’ needs,” La Conner Weekly News, January 10, 2024.
2023
“In touch with the Earth: there’s more than marketing behind ‘organic’ labels,” Salish Current, December 20, 2023.
“Managing food insecurity key to a strong local food system,” La Conner Weekly News, December 20, 2023.
“Wildfire fighting is on a year-round cycle,” Salish Current, December 13, 2023.
“Making Dairies Work in Skagit Valley,” The Dirt, Skagitonians to Preserve Farmland, December 2023.
“Boldly Growing Community,” Meet a Farmer, Skagitonians to Preserve Farmland, November 2023.
“Skagit County Historical Museum’s holiday fundraiser is this Saturday,” La Conner Weekly News, November 29, 2023.
“Skagit’s white birds of winter are ambassadors among land use, values conflicts,” Salish Current, November 22, 2023.
“2024 Tulip Festival post unveiled, plans underway,” La Conner Weekly News, November 22, 2023.
“Skagit County water outlook complicated, challenging,” La Conner Weekly News, November 15, 2023.
“War and Geese,” Wild Roof Journal 23 (November 2023): 47-52.
“Returning grizzly bears to the North Cascades,” Salish Current, November 3, 2023.
“Congress funds the Northwest Straits Initiative to protect and restore marine ecosystems on November 13, 1998,” HistoryLink.org Online Encyclopedia of Washington State History (November 2023).
“Still on the Trail of the Common Good: How public lands retirees use their experience to protect the nation’s legacy,” Next Avenue, October 31, 2023.
“Growing and Learning with First Cut Farm,” Meet a Farmer, Skagitonians to Preserve Farmland, October 2023.
“Birds’ return requires people to ‘Be Bird Wise,'” La Conner Weekly News, October 25, 2023.
“Farm stand neighbors seasons closing,” La Conner Weekly News, October 25, 2023.
“‘Surge’ intersects art and science; opens at MoNA Saturday,” La Conner Weekly News, October 11, 2023.
“Barbers as historians new museum exhibit,” La Conner Weekly News, October 11, 2023.
“Gov. Inslee comes to Anacortes for housing discussion,” La Conner Weekly News, October 4, 2023.
“Skagit Habitat for Humanity buys La Conner property,” La Conner Weekly News, October 4, 2023.
“U.S. Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas protests a proposed open-pit copper mine near Darrington on August 5, 1967,” HistoryLink.org Online Encyclopedia of Washington State History (October 2023).
“Cutting hair and keeping history: Barbers as local story keepers,” La Conner Weekly News, September 27, 2023.
“Farming in the Foothills,” The Dirt, Skagitonians to Preserve Farmland, September 2023.
“Locals in small operation take on ‘tall order’ in marine ecosystem,” Salish Current, September 22, 2023.
“Drought persists, requires adjustments and acceptance,” La Conner Weekly News, September 20, 2023.
“Signs of a hidden threat: preparing for the really big one,” Salish Current, September 6, 2023.
“Voluntary Stewardship in Skagit County,” The Dirt, Skagitonians to Preserve Farmland, September 2023.
“When American Governors and Moguls Came Together to Prevent Environmental Catastrophe,” Zócalo Public Square, August 2023. Also appearing as: “Once upon a time in America, when the common good prevailed,” Boston Globe, August 20, 2023.
“Finding happily ever after in Skagit’s ag zone,” Salish Current, August 11, 2023.
“Keeping History Alive at Northern State Hospital,” La Conner Weekly News, August 9, 2023.
“The Role of Small Scale Farms in Skagit Agriculture,” The Dirt, Skagitonians to Preserve Farmland, June 2023.
“Panning for Local History Gold at Darrington Ranger Station,” The Daily Herald [Everett, WA], June 14, 2023.
“The Role of Large Scale Farms in Skagit Agriculture,” The Dirt, Skagitonians to Preserve Farmland, June 2023.
“On This Disputed River, Progress May Mean a Return to the Past,” Smithsonian Magazine (May 25, 2023).
“Building an Agricultural Community through Crop Rotation and Land Trading,” The Dirt, Skagitonians to Preserve Farmland, May 2023.
“‘Accidental Birders’ learn how to Be Bird Wise,” The Dirt, Skagitonians to Preserve Farmland, April 2023.
2022
“Stones in a Stream,” Talking River Review, Issue 53 (Fall 2022): 125.
“How the U.S. came to protect the natural world–and exploit it at the same time,” Los Angeles Times, (September 25, 2022). Also appearing as: “What Do Mining Claims and National Parks Have in Common?,” Zócalo Public Square (October 27, 2022). Also appearing as: “How Did National Parks and Mining Get So Entangled?,” Slate (November 4, 2022).
“Wild Times,” Barzakh Magazine, Issue 15 (Summer 2022).
“Submerged Stories, Breaching History,” Wild Roof Journal, Issue 15 (July 2022): 15-22.
2021
“When You Know the Price of a Huckleberry,” Weber–The Contemporary West, 38, no. 1 (Fall 2021): 110-18.
“The Slaughter of Elk at Yellowstone National Park: And how it changed Park Service policy,” JSTOR Daily, August 18, 2021.
“Seeds,” Stonecoast Review, Issue No. 15 (Summer 2021): 118-124.
2020
“The lessons of Redwood Summer, thirty years later,” High Country News, September 29, 2020.
“An Evolving Idea: Perils and Promise of the Federal Landscape,” Desert Report, September 2020, 8-11. 21.
“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, Volume 3, Issue 2, [2020], “The Great Outdoors,” 9-11.
“No Sacrifices of the Public Interest in Times of Emergency,” The Revelator, May 6, 2020.
“Boeing’s history reveals connections and disconnections in the West’s economy,” High Country News, February 18, 2020.
2019
“NEPA transformed federal land management — and has fallen short,” High Country News, December 6, 2019.
“Economic giants drive income inequality in a second Gilded Age,” High Country News, November 27, 2019.
“The Man Who Tried to Claim the Grand Canyon,” JSTOR Daily, July 31, 2019.
“Renegotiating the Columbia River Treaty, Six Decades Later,” High Country News, July 6, 2019.
“Mining Laws Have Long Been Used for Recreation,” High Country News, May 24, 2019.
“Critics of the Green New Deal rail against socialism. We’ve seen this before,” High Country News, April 5, 2019.
“It’s time to revisit an old way to resolve public land fights,” High Country News, February 26, 2019.
“Border security will always be elusive,” High Country News, January 14, 2019.
2018
“Reckoning with History: How the once-radical Endangered Species Act was weakened,” High Country News, November 16, 2018.
“Reckoning with History: When we overcame political division,” High Country News, October 5, 2018.
“Reckoning with History: Wildfire suppression is a decades-old conundrum,” High Country News, August 29, 2018.
“Coastal drilling protesters to Trump: Take a hike,” Crosscut, August 13, 2018.
“Reckoning with History: The legacy of lynching in the West,” High Country News, July 13, 2018.
“America’s National Parks Were Never Wild and Untouched: Montana’s Emblematic Glacier National Park Reveals the Impact of Human History and Culture,” Zócalo Public Square, June 11, 2018.
“Reckoning with History: The devolution of conservation’s trust fund,” High Country News, June 8, 2018.
“Reckoning with History: The parks have been fixed before,” High Country News, April 11, 2018.
“Reckoning with History: The Antiquities Act quandary,” High Country News, February 22, 2018.
“Reckoning with History: Interior’s legacy of bad behavior,” High Country News, January 3, 2018.
2017
“Public Lands, Private Profit,” OUP Blog, October 29th, 2017.
“Why Sheep Started So Many Wars in the American West,” Zócalo Public Square, October 5, 2017.
“The Trump Administration’s Review of National Monuments Smacks of Paternalism,” History News Network, May 28, 2017.
“In Latest Skirmish of Western Land Wars, Congress Supports Mining and Ranching,” The Conversation, February 20, 2017.
2016
“Sometimes, the West must be protected from itself,” High Country News, Writers on the Range, 48, no. 13 (July 27, 2016): 24-25.
“No, Ted Cruz, Westerners should not follow in Texas’ footsteps,” High Country News, Writers on the Range. March 30, 2016.
Bridging the Past, Present, and Future: Commemorating 25 Years of the Idaho Heritage Trust. Boise: Idaho Heritage Trust, 2016.
2015
Traveling Ecologist Rexford F. Daubenmire.” Washington State University Magazine 14, no. 4 (Fall 2015): 19.
“Law and Nature: The Famed Dissent of Justice William O. Douglas.” High Country News 47, no. 1 (January 19, 2015): 6-7.