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Why Sheep Started So Many Wars

"Why Sheep Started So Many Wars in the American West," Zócalo Public Square (October 5, 2017). Why Sheep Started So Many Wars in the American West | Essay | Zócalo Public SquareIn early October, when the leaves turn golden and the shadows of the Sawtooth Mountains lengthen, the annual Trailing

David Brooks and the Myth of Pre-Political Land

Friday, at the New York Times, David Brooks waded into environmental history. I haven’t seen environmental historians reacting to his column, “This American Land,” which is a curiosity, since our field rarely appears on the Times Op-Ed page. We should weigh in. Brooks observes two things worth noting. First,

Pleading for Posterity

Pleading for Posterity

“Pleading for Posterity: Idaho Wilderness in Time,” in Idaho Wilderness Considered, eds. Murray Feldman and Jennifer Emery Davison (Boise: Idaho Humanities Council, 2016): 33-48.

Traveling Ecologist

"Traveling Ecologist Rexford F. Daubenmire," Washington State University Magazine 14, no. 4 (Fall 2015): 19.

Rexford Daubenmire and the Ecology of Place

Rexford Daubenmire and the Ecology of Place

"Rexford Daubenmire and the Ecology of Place: Applied Ecology in the Mid-Twentieth-Century American West," in New Perspectives on the History of Life Sciences and Agriculture, eds. Denise Phillips and Sharon Kingsland (New York: Springer, 2015): 297-322. Publisher's Site

Mobile Nature, Cooperative Management, and Institutional Adaptation

Mobile Nature, Cooperative Management, and Institutional Adaptation

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. Mobile nature, cooperative managementsowards_stunz-final_smaller.pdf2 MBdownload-circle

Making the Idaho Landscape of 1863

“Making the Idaho Landscape of 1863,” Idaho Landscapes (March 2013): 5-17. Making the Idaho Landscapesowards-idaho-landscape-of-1863.pdf2 MBdownload-circle