Defining Outdoor Recreation
How to think about recreation in the 1920s
wilderness
Preserving Sanctuaries
Stegner, parks, and politics
More Than Meets the Eye
A field trip to Dominguez Canyon
Flights into the Wilderness
Views that opened new perspectives
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
Dissenting Views of Fire and the Wild
Elers Koch's "The Passing of the Lolo Trail" (1935)
The North Cascades--vision and compromise
What vision and compromises shaped the North Cascades? A conservation tale in two parts.
A few prefatory words
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