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Expertise
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Work
Recent Podcast
鈥,鈥 New Books Network, January 7, 2023, online
鈥,鈥 KSQD (Santa Cruz), online
鈥,鈥 New Books on the America West podcast, December 2, 2022
Recent Interview
鈥,鈥 TenAcross, January 31, 2025
鈥,鈥 New York Magazine, January 13, 2025
鈥,鈥 Lever Time, January 17, 2025
鈥淏ehind the Blaze: Why Los Angeles Burned,鈥 Beerocracy! January 15, 2025: ;
鈥溾 Money Matters (Singapore), January 13, 2025
鈥溾 Save As: NextGen Heritage Conservationpodcast, May 29, 2024, online
Recent Video
鈥,鈥 ABC (Australia), January 12, 2025
, More Perfect Union: KBLA, January13, 2025
Recent Books
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Recent Anthologies
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Richard Harding Davis: The West from a Car-Window, Library of Texas series, (2006).
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Recent Articles & Chapters
鈥,鈥 in Char Miller, ed., special issue, 鈥淩ethinking Arizona鈥檚 Environmental History,鈥 Journal of Arizona History, 65:3, Autumn 2024, 229-35.
鈥,鈥 in Char Miller, ed., special issue, 鈥淩ethinking Arizona鈥檚 Environmental History,鈥 Journal of Arizona History, 65:3, Autumn 2024, 357-61.
鈥淲ild, Managed, and Reclaimed: The Complex Environmental History of the San Antonio River Watershed,鈥 in Greg Gordon, ed., Rewilding the Urban Frontier: River Conservation in the Anthropocene (Lincoln NE: University of Nebraska Press, 2024), 69-91.
鈥淔rom the Ground Up: Raymond M. Conarro and the Creation of Weeks Act Forests,鈥 Forest History Today, 29/30: 1-2, 2023-24, 58-67.
鈥淧ictures at an Exhibition: Rendering the Los Angeles River,鈥 Eden: Quarterly Journal of the California Garden & Landscape History Society, 25:4, Fall 2022, 30-37. With Tilly Hinton.
鈥淲alking in the Los Angeles River: An Immersive Experience,鈥 Eden: Quarterly Journal of the California Garden & Landscape History Society, 25:3, Summer 2022, 30-39.
鈥淩ailroad Miles and Slash-Pine Seeds,鈥 Forest Source, 27:4: April 2022, 1, 17.
鈥溾 Southwestern Historical Quarterly, 125:3, January 2022, 251-69.
鈥淎rchitects of Smoke,鈥 Forecast Journal, Issue 9: Sustainability, Winter 2022, 48-52.
鈥溾橤reed for Land鈥: W.W. Ashe and the Environmental Roots of the 1921 Flood in Central Texas,鈥 Southwestern Historical Quarterly, 125:1, July 2021, 62-73.
鈥淩eclamation Project: Rediscovering W. W. Ashe and the Origins of Watershed Stewardship,鈥 Forest History Today, 26:1/2, Spring /Fall 2020, 40-49.
鈥淪treetscape Environmentalism: Flood Control, Social Justice, and Political Power in San Antonio, 1921-1974,鈥 in Miller and Crane, eds., (2019), 100-119.
鈥淔uture Imperfect: The Forest Service and Federal Land Management in a Climate-Charged Environment,鈥 in Steve Wilent, ed., 193 Million Acres: Toward a Healthier and More Resilient US Forest Service (Bethesda MD: Society of American Foresters, 2019), 601-619.
鈥溾橵ast, Incredible Damage鈥: The US Forest Service and the Herbicide Wars,鈥 in Janet Brodie, Vivien Hamilton and Brinda Sarathy, eds., Inevitably Toxic: Historical Perspectives on Contamination, Exposure, and Expertise, (Pittsburgh PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2018), 182-206. With James G. Lewis.
鈥淓ssential Landscape: An Environmental History of Chaparral Ecosystems in California,鈥 in E.C. Underwood, et al., eds.Valuing Chaparral: Ecological, Social, and Management Perspectives, Springer Series on Environmental Management, (Springer, 2018), 123-40.
Recent Documentaries
鈥,鈥 Ann Kaneko, premiered at BigSky Film Festival, February 26, 2021.
Bring Your Own Brigade, Lucy Walker Films (2021); Selected for Sundance Film Festival. Premiered January 29, 2021.
, ShivHans Pictures, 2021. Premiered January 14, 2021.
America's First Forest: Carl Schenck and the Biltmore Forest School (Bonesteel Films/PBS, 2016)
The Big Burn (PBS: American Experience, 2015)
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Education
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Awards & Honors
Awards & Honors
Vice Chair, Eastern Sierra Interpretive Association
Board Member, National Museum of Forest Service History
Pomfret School Distinguished Alumni Award, 2020
麻豆影视, Alumni Service Award, 2015
麻豆影视, Wig Distinguished Professor Award for Excellence in Teaching, 2013
Organization of American Historians, Distinguished Lecturers, 2007-10
USDA Forest Service, New Century of Service Annual Award, 2005; US Forest Service Centennial Lecturer, 2004-05
Minnie Stevens Piper Foundation and State of Texas, Piper Professor, 2002, for excellence in teaching and service to higher education
Editor-in-Chief, Eastern Sierra History Journal, 2020- ; Editor-in-Chief, EnviroLab Asia Journal, 2017-
Editorial Boards, Library of Texas series, 2006- ; Pacific Historical Review, 2002-2008; Environmental History, 2001-06; 2010-2012 (Associate Editor, 1999-2001, 2006-10); Trinity University Press, 2002-06; and Associate Editor (History), Journal of Forestry, 2005-10.
Forest History Society, Director Emeritus, 2020- ; Board of Directors, 2002-2008
Pinchot Institute for Conservation, Senior Fellow, 1997-present
Trinity University: Dr. and Mrs. Z.T. Scott Faculty Fellowship, 1997; Outstanding Professor, Humanities & Arts Division, 1996-97; Outstanding Professor, 1986