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Submerged Stories, Breaching History

Submerged Stories, Breaching History

"Submerged Stories, Breaching History," Wild Roof Journal, Issue 15 (July 2022): 15-22. All places contain ghost landscapes when you see them as a historian does, which is to say, how I do. Buried beneath today’s scenic vista lies all of the yesterdays, layered one upon another, accreting

Wild Times

Wild Times

"Wild Times," Barzakh Magazine, Issue 15 (Summer 2022). But I realize that time isn’t a refuge any more than the wilderness is an escape from people. You cannot go into it or out of it. You cannot choose to participate in or avoid time. Time beats on

Making America's Public Lands

Making America's Public Lands

Making America's Public Lands: The Contested History of Conservation on Federal Lands. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2022. Publisher's Site

When You Know the Price of a Huckleberry

When You Know the Price of a Huckleberry

"When You Know the Price of a Huckleberry," Weber – The Contemporary West 38, no. 1 (Fall 2021): 110-18. My students sit next to me and Big Creek, on cut logs, because they believe Thoreau remains correct a century and a half later. The universe is the classroom; schoolrooms

The Slaughter of Elk at Yellowstone

"The Slaughter of Elk at Yellowstone National Park: And how it changed Park Service policy," JSTOR Daily (August 18, 2021). The Slaughter of Elk at Yellowstone National Park - JSTOR DailyAnd how it changed Park Service policy.JSTOR DailyElizabeth Winterhalter

Seeds

Seeds

"Seeds," Stonecoast Review, Issue No. 15 (Summer 2021): 118-24. But the flowers I remember most were Sweet Williams. In my memory, as vivid as today’s sun even though it happened nearly four decades ago, Granddaddy cut them near the ground and handed me the bunch. Following his