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North Cascades

A Life in the Wilderness

A Life in the Wilderness

Gary Paull on public lands, photography, and finding meaning in mountains
Adam M. Sowards 15 Mar 2025

Logging, Lumbering, and Forestry in the North Cascades

“Logging, Lumbering, and Forestry in the North Cascades,” HistoryLink.org Online Encyclopedia of Washington State History (January 2025). Logging, Lumbering, and Forestry in the North CascadesThe North Cascades ecosystem includes diverse forests shaped by natural processes and human history. Indigenous peoples have used these forests for millennia, employing cultural fire
Adam M. Sowards 27 Jan 2025
Finding Grant McConnell and the North Cascades

Finding Grant McConnell and the North Cascades

Loving a place and becoming an applied political scientist
Adam M. Sowards 22 Jan 2025

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.
Adam M. Sowards 01 Jul 2020

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
Adam M. Sowards 02 May 2017

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