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Recent Podcast

“,” New Books Network, January 7, 2023, online

“,” KSQD (Santa Cruz), online

“,” New Books on the America West podcast, December 2, 2022

Recent Interview

“,” TenAcross, January 31, 2025

“,” New York Magazine, January 13, 2025

“,” Lever Time, January 17, 2025

“Behind the Blaze: Why Los Angeles Burned,” Beerocracy! January 15, 2025: ;

“” Money Matters (Singapore), January 13, 2025

“” Save As: NextGen Heritage Conservationpodcast, May 29, 2024, online

Recent Video

“,” 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

“,” in Char Miller, ed., special issue, “Rethinking Arizona’s Environmental History,” Journal of Arizona History, 65:3, Autumn 2024, 229-35.

“,” in Char Miller, ed., special issue, “Rethinking Arizona’s Environmental History,” Journal of Arizona History, 65:3, Autumn 2024, 357-61.

“Wild, Managed, and Reclaimed: The Complex Environmental History of the San Antonio River Watershed,” in Greg Gordon, ed., Rewilding the Urban Frontier: River Conservation in the Anthropocene (Lincoln NE: University of Nebraska Press, 2024), 69-91.

“From the Ground Up: Raymond M. Conarro and the Creation of Weeks Act Forests,” Forest History Today, 29/30: 1-2, 2023-24, 58-67.

“Pictures at an Exhibition: Rendering the Los Angeles River,” Eden: Quarterly Journal of the California Garden & Landscape History Society, 25:4, Fall 2022, 30-37. With Tilly Hinton.

“Walking in the Los Angeles River: An Immersive Experience,” Eden: Quarterly Journal of the California Garden & Landscape History Society, 25:3, Summer 2022, 30-39.

“Railroad Miles and Slash-Pine Seeds,” Forest Source, 27:4: April 2022, 1, 17.

“” Southwestern Historical Quarterly, 125:3, January 2022, 251-69.

“Architects of Smoke,” Forecast Journal, Issue 9: Sustainability, Winter 2022, 48-52.

“’Greed for Land’: W.W. Ashe and the Environmental Roots of the 1921 Flood in Central Texas,” Southwestern Historical Quarterly, 125:1, July 2021, 62-73.

“Reclamation Project: Rediscovering W. W. Ashe and the Origins of Watershed Stewardship,” Forest History Today, 26:1/2, Spring /Fall 2020, 40-49.

“Streetscape Environmentalism: Flood Control, Social Justice, and Political Power in San Antonio, 1921-1974,” in Miller and Crane, eds.,  (2019), 100-119.

“Future Imperfect: The Forest Service and Federal Land Management in a Climate-Charged Environment,” 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.

“’Vast, Incredible Damage’: The US Forest Service and the Herbicide Wars,” 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.

“Essential Landscape: An Environmental History of Chaparral Ecosystems in California,” 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

“,” 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)