Articles + reviews
Book chapters
Executive Domain: Military Reservations in the Wartime West
In World War II and the West It Wrought (2020)
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The Mormon Cause, Lost and Found
In Reconstruction and Mormon America (2019)
Technofossil
In
Future Remains: A Cabinet of Curiosities for the Anthropocene (2018)
Academic articles
Taking Liberties with Historic Trees
Journal of American History (March 2019)
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Crossroads of the West
Journal of Mormon History (50th anniversary special issue, Winter 2015)
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This Was the Place: The Making and Unmaking of Utah
Utah Historical Quarterly (Summer 2014)
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On Emblematic Megaflora
Environmental History (July 2010)
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Displaced from Zion: Mormons and Indians in the Nineteenth Century
Historically Speaking (Jan. 2009)
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Desert Solitaire and the Literary Memory of an Imagined Place
Western American Literature (Summer 2003)
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Glen Canyon and the Persistence of Wilderness
Western Historical Quarterly (Summer 1996)
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Magazine pieces
In Search of the Old Ones: Where to Find the World’s Longest-lived Trees
BBC Future (16 Oct. 2023)
Deep Roots for Myths and Legend
Scotsman Magazine (25 Feb. 2023)
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The Science Behind the Oldest Trees on Earth
Smithsonian (3 Jan. 2023)
Secular Sacred Groves
Berlin Journal (Fall 2018)
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Blossom as the Fig: How My Father, a California Transplant, Adapted to Utah
High Country News (Sept. 2014)
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Witness to a Hanging: California’s Haunted Trees
Boom: A Journal of California (Mar. 2013)
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Reclaiming the Low Country
High Country News (Sept. 2008)
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Gone Native: California’s Love-Hate Relationship with Eucalyptus Trees
Huntington Frontiers (Spring–Summer 2007)
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Academic blogs
In America, Trees Symbolize Both Freedom and Unfreedom
OUP blog (April 2019)
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American Champion Trees and the Wye Oak of Maryland
Rachel Carson Center’s Environment & Society Portal (Spring 2019)
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Old-Growth Infrastructure: Redwood in Los Angeles
KCET blog (Oct. 2017)
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Necessary Evil
jaredfarmer.net (Aug. 2014)
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Trees, Poles, and Progress
jaredfarmer.net (July 2014)
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Review essays
Trans-Mediterranean
On Strangers on Familiar Soil: Rediscovering the Chile-California Connection by Edward Dallam Melilo
H-Environment Roundtable Review (Apr. 2018)
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Bitterest Crop: Genocide in California
On Murder State: California’s Native American Genocide, 1846–1873 by Brendan C. Lindsay, and An American Genocide: The United States and the California Indian Catastrophe, 1846–1873 by Benjamin Madley
Reviews in American History (June 2017)
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Meditations on Conservation
On The Hour of Land: A Personal Topography of America’s National Parks by Terry Tempest Williams
Science (10 June 2016)
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The Art of Longevity
On The Oldest Living Things in the World by Rachel Sussman
Science (16 May 2014)
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A Working Stiff’s Crawl
On Here Lies Hugh Glass: A Mountain Man, A Bear, and the Rise of the American Nation by Jon T. Coleman
Reviews in American History (Mar. 2014)
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What’s Wrong with Synthetic Trees?
On American Canopy: Trees, Forests, and the Making of a Nation by Eric Rutkow
Reviews in American History (Sept. 2013)
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Americanasana
On Yoga Body by Mark Singleton, The Subtle Body by Stefanie Syman, and The Great Oom by Robert Love
Reviews in American History (Mar. 2012)
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Pangaea Penultima
On 1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created by Charles C. Mann
Science (4 Nov. 2011)
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Of Birds and Bureaucracy
On Seeking Refuge: Birds and Landscapes of the Pacific Flyway by Robert M. Wilson
American Scientist (Jan.–Feb. 2011)
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Erosion of Trust
On Dreaming of Sheep in Navajo Country by Marsha Weisiger
American Scientist (July–Aug. 2010)
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Hatching a Mongrel Species
On An Entirely Synthetic Fish: How Rainbow Trout Beguiled America and Overran the World by Anders Halverson
Science (2 Apr. 2010)
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Icons of Early Conservation Biology
On Nature’s Ghosts: Confronting Extinction from the Age of Jefferson to the Age of Ecology by Mark V. Barrow, Jr.
Science (15 Jan. 2010)
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Borderlands of Brutality
On War of a Thousand Deserts: Indian Raids and the U.S.-Mexican War by Brian DeLay
Reviews in American History (Dec. 2009)
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Unruly Histories
On Imperial by William T. Vollmann
HistoryNow (Sept. 2009)
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Data Drought, Data Flood
On Dead Pool: Lake Powell, Global Warming, and the Future of Water in the West by James Lawrence Powell
Science (23 Jan. 2009)
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The Great American Pantheist
On A Passion for Nature: The Life of John Muir by Donald Worster
Science (7 Nov. 2008)
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Violence beneath the Land
On Massacre at Mountain Meadows: An American Tragedy by Ronald W. Walker et al.
BYU Studies 47.3 (2008)
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Reference work
Bibliography of historian Richard White
My mentor’s publications, cataloged
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