selected publications
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academic article
- Sometimes, It Takes a Table. Environmental History. 23:143-151. 2018
- Claiming Spaces for Science: Scientific Exploration and the Canadian Arctic Expedition of 1913 - 1918. Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences. 47.0:164.0-199.0. 2017
- Instituting water research: the Water Resources Research Act (1964) and the Idaho Water Resources Research Institute. Water History. 9:295-316. 2017
- Public Lands and Their Administration. Oxford Research Encyclopedia for American History. 2017
- Sometimes, It Takes a Table. Environmental History. 2017
- Protecting American Lands with Justice William O. Douglas. The George Wright Forum . 32:165-173. 2015
- Mobile Nature, Cooperative Management, and Institutional Adaptation in Pacific Northwest Blister Rust Control in the 20th Century. Pacific Northwest Quarterly. 105:159-174. 2014
- Making the Idaho Landscape of 1863. Idaho Landscapes. 5-17. 2013
- Roots and Branches: Environmentalism and the American West. Journal of the West. 50:9-12. 2011
- 'We're All Kinda Crazy': Smokejumpers and American Forests. Oral History Forum d'histoire orale. 30. 2010
- From Virgin Forest to Modern Farm: Picturing Ecological Change in Northern Idaho's Cutover Land. Idaho Yesterdays. 50. 2009
- William O. Douglas's Wilderness Politics: Public Protest and Committees of Correspondence in the Pacific Northwest. Western Historical Quarterly. 37:21-42. 2006
- Modern Ahabs in Texas: William O. Douglas and Lone Star Conservation. Journal of the West. 44:39-46. 2005
- Administrative Trials, Environmental Consequences, and the Use of History in Arizona's Tonto National Forest, 1926-1996. Western Historical Quarterly. 31:189-214. 2000
- Reclamation, Ranching and Reservation: Environmental, Cultural, and Governmental Rivalries in Transitional Arizona. Journal of the Southwest. 40:333-361. 1998
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article
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book
- Making America's Public Lands: The Contested History of Conservation on Federal Lands. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield. 2022
- 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
- The Environmental Justice: William O. Douglas and American Conservation. Corvallis: Oregon State University Press. 2009
- United States West Coast: An Environmental History 2007
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chapter
- Confronting Kennecott in the Cascades. The Nature of Hope: Grassroots Organizing, Environmental Justice, and Political Change. Ed. Crane, Jeff. Louisville: University Press of Colorado. 251-282. 2018
- Finding Complexity in a Ditch: Hugh T. Lovin and Idaho Irrigation History. Complexity in a Ditch: Bringing Water to the Idaho Desert. Ed. Lovin, Hugh T.. Pullman: WSU Press. 1-14. 2017
- Pleading for Posterity: Idaho Wilderness in Time. Idaho Wilderness Considered. Ed. Feldman, Murray. Boise: Idaho Humanities Council. 33-48. 2016
- Rexford F. Daubenmire and the Ecology of Place: Applied Ecology in the Mid-Twentieth-Century American West. New Perspectives on the History of Life Sciences and Agriculture. 297-322. 2015
- The Past and Future of the Columbia River. The Columbia River Treaty Revisited: Transboundary River Governance in the Face of Uncertainty. 115-136. 2012
- Challenging Progress. Individuals in History: The Environmental Movement. 1-9. 2008
- From Walden to Global Warming. Individuals in History: The Environmental Movement. 11-25. 2008
- William O. Douglas: The Environmental Justice. The Human Tradition in America: 1865 to the Present. Ed. Calhoun, Charles W.. 301-316. 2003
- William O. Douglas: The Environmental Justice. The Human Tradition in the American West. Ed. Tong, Benson. 155-170. 2002
- Spiritual Egalitarianism: John Muir's Religious Environmentalism. John Muir in Historical Perspective. Ed. Miller, Sally M.. 123-136. 1999
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conference paper
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editorial article
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review