Adam M. Sowards — Taking Bearings

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Wild Times

Wild Times

"Wild Times," Barzakh Magazine, Issue 15 (Summer 2022). But I realize that time isn’t a refuge any more than the wilderness is an escape from people. You cannot go into it or out of it. You cannot choose to participate in or avoid time. Time beats on

When You Know the Price of a Huckleberry

When You Know the Price of a Huckleberry

"When You Know the Price of a Huckleberry," Weber – The Contemporary West 38, no. 1 (Fall 2021): 110-18. My students sit next to me and Big Creek, on cut logs, because they believe Thoreau remains correct a century and a half later. The universe is the classroom; schoolrooms

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

Coastal drilling protesters to Trump: Take a hike

"Coastal drilling protesters to Trump: Take a hike," Crosscut (August 13, 2018). Coastal drilling protesters to Trump: Take a hike | Op-EdUpcoming protests on Washington’s coast have roots in a similar trip by a U.S. Supreme Court justice committed to protecting the environment.Cascade PBSAdam M. Sowards