Dissenting Views of Fire and the Wild
Elers Koch's "The Passing of the Lolo Trail" (1935)
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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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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," 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: The Wilderness Act and the Fight to Protect Miners Ridge and the Public Interest. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2020.
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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," 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.
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