Adam M. Sowards — Taking Bearings

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Glacier Peak Wilderness Area

U.S. Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas Protests

"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). U.S. Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas protests a proposed opeOn August 5, 1967, U.S. Supreme

Fighting Kennecott from the Supervisor's Office

"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.

An Open Pit Visible from the Moon

An Open Pit Visible from the Moon

An Open Pit Visible from the Moon: The Wilderness Act and the Fight to Protect Miners Ridge and the Public Interest. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2020. Publisher's Site Winner of the 2021 Hal K. Rothman Prize from the Western History Association for the best western environmental history

Confronting Kennecott in the Cascades

Confronting Kennecott in the Cascades

"Confronting Kennecott in the Cascades," in The Nature of Hope: Grassroots Organizing, Environmental Justice, and Political Change, eds. Char Miller and Jeff Crane (Louisville: University Press of Colorado, 2018): 251-82. Publisher's Site

The Doctor’s Connections Fifty Years On

I always picture him struggling with the oil painting as he made his way through the lobby of New York’s Biltmore Hotel. But the physician thought it important to bring a bit of home with him, a proxy for the actual wilderness he left behind. After all, he traveled