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Making the Vastness Visible

Making the Vastness Visible

McKenzie Long finds deep stories of the land
Adam M. Sowards 15 Feb 2026
Will the History of Public Lands Matter?

Will the History of Public Lands Matter?

Wondering about past, present, and future
Adam M. Sowards 14 May 2025
Olympic National Park's Canonical History

Olympic National Park's Canonical History

How one park reveals many historical themes
Adam M. Sowards 26 Mar 2025
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
Dissenting from within Federal Agencies

Dissenting from within Federal Agencies

The origins of the Association of Forest Service Employees for Environmental Ethics
Adam M. Sowards 26 Feb 2025

Washington's Timberlands

"Washington's Timberland (Part I)," HistoryLink.org Online Encyclopedia of Washington State History (May 2024). Washington’s Timberlands (Part 1)Washington’s forests changed during the nineteenth century. When the century began, forests dominated most of the region. They were homelands for diverse and sovereign Indigenous nations
Adam M. Sowards 20 May 2024
Hope in Public Lands

Hope in Public Lands

With Leisl Carr Childers, "Hope in Public Lands: A Conversation," in Wallace Stegner’s Unsettled Country: Ruin, Realism, and Possibility in the American West, eds. Mark Fiege, Michael J. Lansing, and Leisl Carr Childers (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2024): 183-212. Publisher's Site
Adam M. Sowards 01 Feb 2024

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