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The Wilderness Reluctance of the National Park Service

The Wilderness Reluctance of the National Park Service

The slow, incomplete protection of national park wilderness
Adam M. Sowards 08 Oct 2025
Defining Outdoor Recreation

Defining Outdoor Recreation

How to think about recreation in the 1920s
Adam M. Sowards 07 May 2025
Preserving Sanctuaries

Preserving Sanctuaries

Stegner, parks, and politics
Adam M. Sowards 09 Apr 2025
More Than Meets the Eye

More Than Meets the Eye

A field trip to Dominguez Canyon
Adam M. Sowards 07 Aug 2024
Flights into the Wilderness

Flights into the Wilderness

Views that opened new perspectives
Adam M. Sowards 07 Feb 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
Dissenting Views of Fire and the Wild

Dissenting Views of Fire and the Wild

Elers Koch's "The Passing of the Lolo Trail" (1935)
Adam M. Sowards 13 Sep 2023

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