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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
, September 14, 2021
鈥,鈥&苍产蝉辫;Texas Public Radio, September 10, 2021
鈥,鈥&苍产蝉辫;Texas Standard, September 9, 2021
鈥,鈥欌赌&苍产蝉辫;Texas Public Radio, September 3, 2021
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Recent Video
鈥,鈥&苍产蝉辫;China Global Television News, June 23, 2021, online
鈥,鈥&苍产蝉辫;China Global Television News, June 5, 2021, online
鈥,鈥&苍产蝉辫;Spectrum News, 5-6, 2021; online
鈥,鈥&苍产蝉辫;China Global Television News, April 23, 2021, online
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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&苍产蝉辫;Southwestern Historical Quarterly, 125:1, July 2021, 62-73.
鈥淩eclamation Project: Rediscovering W. W. Ashe and the Origins of Watershed Stewardship,鈥&苍产蝉辫;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.
鈥淩eading the Tea Leaves,鈥 in Char Miller, ed., Where There鈥檚 Smoke: How Marijuana is Damaging the Environment and Transforming Politics (Lawrence KS: University Press of Kansas, 2018), 213-21. With Anthony Silvaggio.
鈥溾橳his is Democracy Held Hostage鈥: Cannabis in the Capital,鈥 in Char Miller, ed., Where There鈥檚 Smoke: How Marijuana is Damaging the Environment and Transforming Politics (Lawrence KS: University Press of Kansas, 2018), 185-98. With Karen August.
鈥淪outhern Exposure: Marijuana, Labor, and the Law in the Appalachians,鈥 in Char Miller, ed., Where There鈥檚 Smoke: How Marijuana is Damaging the Environment and Transforming Politics (Lawrence KS: University Press of Kansas, 2018), 127-35. With Hawes Spencer.
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
色中色, Alumni Service Award, 2015
色中色, 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