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MARK FIEGE Professor of History / Wallace Stegner Chair in Western American Studies / Department of History, Philosophy, and Religious Studies / Montana State University / Bozeman, MT 59717 / mark.fiege@montana.edu / 406-994-5204 / Home: 206 N. Jefferson St. / P.O. Box 265 / Pony, MT 59747 / mark.fiege@gmail.com / 970-682-5068

EDUCATION 1994 Ph.D., History, University of Utah, Salt Lake City 1985 M.A., History, Washington State University, Pullman 1981 B.A., History, Western Washington University, Bellingham POSITIONS Academic 2016-present Professor, Dep’t. of History, Philosophy, and Rel. Stud., Montana State University. 2013-2016 Professor, Department of History, Colorado State University. 2000-2013 Associate Professor, Department of History, Colorado State University. 1994-2000 Assistant Professor, Department of History, Colorado State University. 1998 Adjunct Professor, Department of History, Carroll College. 1993 Adjunct Instructor, Department of History, Hiram College. 1993 Instructor, Department of History, Youngstown State University. 1992 Instructor, Department of History, University of Utah. 1987-1990 Teaching Assistant, Department of History, University of Utah. 1982-1984 Teaching Assistant, Department of History, Washington State University. Other 2015-2016 SoGES Scholar, School of Global Environmental Sustainability, CSU. 2012-2016 Council Member, Public Lands History Center, Colorado State University. 2007-2012 Co-Founder and Director, Public Lands History Center, Colorado State University. 1999-2016 Co-Founder and Co-Director, Environmental Affairs Minor, Colorado State Univ. 1988-1989 Historian, under contract to Utah Power Company, Salt Lake City, Utah. 1984-1987 Historian, Renewable Technologies, Inc. (RTI), Butte, Montana. 1984 Seasonal Park Ranger, U.S. National Park Service, Wisdom, Montana. 1983 Seasonal Park Ranger, U.S. National Park Service, Manassas, Virginia. 1982 Intern, Museum of History and Industry, Seattle, Washington. HONORS, FELLOWSHIPS, AWARDS 2016- Wallace Stegner Chair in Western American Studies, Department of History and

Philosophy, Montana State University, Bozeman. 2015 Best Teacher Award, Alumni Association, Colorado State University.

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2015 Wallace Stegner Chair in Western American Studies, Department of History, Philosophy, and Religious Studies, Montana State University, Bozeman (spring semester).

2014 Distinguished Lecturer, Organization of American Historians (2014-2015). 2013 Orion Magazine “2012 Books We Really Liked” (The Republic of Nature). 2012 National Park Service Cooperative Ecosystems Studies Units Network Award, “for

exemplary and innovative participation in the CESU Network,” to the CSU Public Lands History Center, which I co-founded and co-administer with several colleagues.

2008 William E. Morgan Chair of Liberal Arts, College of Liberal Arts, Colorado State University, Fort Collins (2008-2013).

2006 Theodore C. Blegen Award, best article in forest and conservation history, Forest History Society (for “The Weedy West”).

2006 Wayne D. Rasmussen Award, best article in journal other than Agricultural History, Agricultural History Society (for “The Weedy West”).

2006 Alice Hamilton Prize, best article in journal other than Environmental History, American Society for Environmental History (for “The Weedy West”).

2005 Oscar O. Winther Award, best article in Western Historical Quarterly, Western History Association (for “The Weedy West”).

2005 Walter Hines Page Fellowship, National Humanities Center, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina (2005-2006 academic year).

2004 Willard O. Eddy Teacher Award, Colleges of Liberal Arts and Natural Sciences, Colorado State University.

2001 Charles A. Weyerhaeuser Award, best book on forest and conservation history, Forest History Society (co-winner; for Irrigated Eden).

2000 Best Book Award, Idaho Library Association (for Irrigated Eden). 1997 Outstanding Professor Award, Phi Alpha Theta, Department of History, Colorado State

University. 1992 Eccles Graduate Fellowship, Tanner Humanities Center, University of Utah (1992-1993

academic year). 1990 Outstanding Advanced Doctoral Student Award, Department of History, University of

Utah. 1990 Rural Policy Fellowship, Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation and Aspen

Institute for Humanistic Studies (1990-1992 academic years). 1983 Phi Alpha Theta, Department of History, Washington State University. 1983 Herman Deutsch Fellowship, Department of History, Washington State University. PUBLICATIONS Books 2016 National Parks beyond the Nation: Global Perspectives on “America’s Best Idea,” ed. with

Adrian Howkins and Jared Orsi (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2016), 319 pp. 2012 The Republic of Nature: An Environmental History of the United States (Seattle: University

of Washington Press, 2012), 584 pp. Paperback edition 2013.

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1999 Irrigated Eden: The Making of an Agricultural Landscape in the American West (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1999), 323 pp. Paperback edition 2000.

Articles and Essays 2016 “Introduction: National Parks beyond the Nation,” with Adrian Howkins and Jared Orsi, in

National Parks beyond the Nation: Global Perspectives on “America’s Best Idea” (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2016), 3-13.

2016 “Beyond the Best Idea: A Look at Mount Rainier, Antarctica, and the Sonoran Desert,” with Adrian Howkins and Jared Orsi, in National Parks beyond the Nation: Global Perspectives on “America’s Best Idea” (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2016), 14-48. [Mount Rainier portion by Fiege, pp. 14-26, 41-44.]

2016 “Nature, History, and Environmental History at Rocky Mountain National Park,” Park Science 32, no. 2 (Winter 2015-2016): 76-78.

2015 “The Democratic Promise of Nature Preservation,” in After Preservation: Saving American Nature in the Age of Humans, ed. Ben A. Minteer and Stephen J. Pyne (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015), 114-122, 210-211.

2014 “Rivers and The Republic of Nature,” Colorado Water 31 (May/June 2014): 25-26, at: www.cwi.colostate.edu/newsletters.asp.

2014 “Writing The Republic of Nature and Rethinking American (Environmental) History,” a reply to Eric Foner, Roderick Frazier Nash, Christopher Sellers, and Conevery Bolton Valencius, H-Environment Roundtable Reviews 4, no. 1 (2014): 22-34, at http://www.h-net.org/~environ/roundtables.html.

2014 “Of Sunburn, Sore Feet, and Hemorrhoids: Why Disciplinary Differences Matter—and Why They Don’t,” Journal of Historical Geography 43 (2014): 165-167.

2012 “Pain and the Power of History,” Inklings featured essay, Shelf Awareness Vol. 1, Issue 98 (29 May 2012), at: www.shelf-awareness.com.

2011 “In the Channeled Scablands,” in The Face of the Earth: Natural Landscapes, Science, and Culture, by SueEllen Campbell (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2011), 90-93.

2011 “Toward a History of Environmental History in the National Parks,” George Wright Forum 28:2 (2011): 128-147.

2011 “The Nature of the West and the World,” Western Historical Quarterly 42 (Autumn 2011): 305-312.

2008 “Look Away,” Environmental History 13 (April 2008): 351-359. 2007 “The Atomic Scientists, the Sense of Wonder, and the Bomb,” Environmental History 12

(July 2007): 578-613. 2007 “Favored Companions,” Stay Connected: A Newsletter for Colorado State University

Library Friends and Supporters Issue 4 (Summer 2007): 12. 2005 “The Weedy West: Mobile Nature, Boundaries, and Common Space in the Montana

Landscape,” Western Historical Quarterly 36 (Spring 2005): 22-47. 2004 “Gettysburg and the Organic Nature of the American Civil War,” in Natural Enemy,

Natural Ally: Toward an Environmental History of War, ed. Richard P. Tucker and Edmund Russell (Corvallis: Oregon State University Press, 2004), 93-109.

2004 “Irrigation,” in Encyclopedia of World Environmental History, 3 vols., ed Shepard Krech,

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John McNeil, and Carolyn Merchant (New York: Routledge, 2004), vol. 2, pp. 705-710. 2003 “Private Property and the Ecological Commons in the American West,” in Everyday

America: Cultural Landscape Studies after J.B. Jackson, ed. Chris Wilson and Paul Groth (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003), 219-231, 343-346.

1999 “Creating a Hybrid Landscape: Irrigated Agriculture in Idaho,” in Northwest Lands, Northwest Peoples: Readings in Environmental History, ed. Dale Goble and Paul Hirt (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1999), 362-388.

1992 “Wildlife and Irrigation Systems along the Snake River, Idaho,” in Transactions of the Fifty-seventh North American Wildlife and Natural Resources Conference, Wildlife Management Institute (1992): 724-732.

1991 Butte and Anaconda Revisited: An Overview of Early-Day Mining and Smelting in Montana, Montana Bureau of Mines and Geology Special Publication No. 99 (Butte: Montana Bureau of Mines and Geology, 1991), 64 pp., with Brian Shovers, Dale Martin, and Fred Quivik.

INTERVIEWS 2013 Tom Williams, Access Utah, Utah Public Radio, 27 September, at www.upr.org. 2012 Colorado State University, for “Morrill Act: A Degree of Democracy,” In: Campus

Perspectives, NBC Learn, 19 November 2012 [Air], 28 January 2015 [Web], at https://nbclearn.com/files/nbcarchives/site/pdf/65243.pdf. First aired on Rocky Mountain PBS, 13 November 2012.

2012 Wen Stephenson, “Through a Green Glass, Darkly: How Climate Will Reshape American History,” Grist, 28 August, at www.grist.org.

2012 Steve Scher, Weekday with Steve Scher, KUOW Radio, 8 June, at www.KUOW.org. 2012 Lewis Lapham, Bloomberg.com, 1 June, at www.bloomberg.com. 2012 C-SPAN, interview of Fiege and William Cronon, C-SPAN, 20 April, at www.c-span.org. 2012 Veronica Rueckert, interview of Fiege and Jenny Price, Wisconsin Public Radio, 6 April, at

www.wpr.org. 2012 Bjorn Skaptason, Abraham Lincoln Book Shop, Chicago, 31 March, at

www.virtualbooksigning.net. 2012 Ann Little, Historiann, 27, 28 March, at www.historiann.com. 2011 “The Republic of Nature,” video at www.youtube.com [3,300 viewings as of early 2016]. 2009 Gary Frasier, “Environmental History of the High Plains: An Interview with Mark Fiege,”

Rangelands 31:4, pp. 14-17. PRESENTATIONS Invited Lectures, Panels, Symposia, Workshops 2016 Invited Lecture, “Bullets, Bolos, and Big Trees: Col. John R. White and the Trans-Pacific

History of National Parks,” Department of History, Philosophy, and Religious Studies, Montana State University, Bozeman

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2016 Invited Lecture, “The Big Buildup: Extraction, Construction, and Destruction in the Cold War American West,” Department of History, Philosophy, and Religious Studies, Montana State University, Bozeman.

2015 Invited Keynote Address, “Dissenting Conservationists: Resource Agency Professionals and Resistance to the Modern Managerial State,” WHEATS (Workshop for the History of Environment, Agriculture, Technology, and Society) 11th Annual Meeting, University of Colorado, Boulder.

2015 Invited Commentator, WHEATS (Workshop for the History of Environment, Agriculture, Technology, and Society) 11th Annual Meeting, University of Colorado, Boulder.

2015 Invited Lecture, “The Republic of Nature: American History as Environmental History,” Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, University of Colorado, Boulder.

2015 Invited Paper, “Elegant Conservation: Rediscovering a Way Forward in a Time of Unprecedented Uncertainty,” Environments and Societies Colloquium, College of Letters and Science, University of California, Davis.

2015 Invited Comment, “Coping with Water Scarcity: Social Science,” Water Scarcity in the West: Past, Present, and Future Conference hosted by the Climate Change, Water, and Society IGERT [Integrative Graduate Education Research Traineeship], University of California, Davis.

2015 Wallace Stegner Lecture, “Elegant Conservation: Rediscovering a Way Forward in a Time of Unprecedented Uncertainty,” Department of History, Philosophy, and Religious Studies, College of Letters and Science, Montana State University, Bozeman.

2015 Invited Keynote Address, “Thinking Like a Planet: ‘The Long Now’ and the Changing Role of Science and History in the National Parks,” Rocky Mountain National Park Biennial Research Conference, Estes Park, Colorado.

2014 Invited Lecture, “The Past, Present, and Future of Wilderness and the Wilderness Act,” CSU Science Club, Colorado State University, Fort Collins.

2014 Invited Lecture, “Republic of Nature,” Mamie Doud Eisenhower Public Library, Broomfield, Colorado.

2014 Invited Lecture, “The Republic of Nature: American History as Environmental History,” Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, University of Colorado, Boulder.

2014 Invited Lecture, “National Parks and the Course of Modern American History,” National Parks: Past, Present, and Future, Wallace Stegner Center 19th Annual Symposium, S.J. Quinney School of Law, University of Utah, Salt Lake City.

2014 Invited Panelist, “What’s Nature Got To Do With It?” an event based on The Republic of Nature, Oregon Historical Society, Portland, Oregon.

2014 Invited Lecture, “Mirror to America: Reflections on the U.S. Forest Service after Earth Day,” with Janet Ore, Rocky Mountains U.S. Forest Service Retirees’ Association Annual Meeting, Fort Collins, Colorado.

2013 Invited Lecture, “Writing The Republic of Nature and Rethinking American History,” Center for the History of Agriculture, Science, and Environment in the South, Mississippi State University, Starkville, Mississippi.

2013 Invited Lecture, “Writing The Republic of Nature and Rethinking American Environmental History,” Charles Redd Center for Western Studies, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah.

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2013 Invited Lecture, “The Republic of Nature,” 16th Annual Utah Humanities Book Festival, Utah Center for the Book/Utah Humanities Council and Salt Lake City Public Library, Salt Lake City, Utah.

2013 Invited Lecture, “The Republic of Nature,” Utah Archives Month: Ecology in the Archives, Utah State Archives, Salt Lake City, Utah.

2013 Invited Lecture, “The Republic of Nature: American History as Environmental History,” Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, University of Colorado, Boulder.

2013 Invited Lecture, “The Republic of Nature and American Environmental History,” Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History and Educational Services and Staff Development Association of Central Kansas (ESSDACK), Hutchinson, Kansas.

2013 Invited Lecture, “Nature and the Reconstruction of American History,” F. Kevin Simon 29th Annual History Symposium, Sayre School, Lexington, Kentucky.

2012 Invited Seminar, “The Republic of Nature,” Department of History and Philosophy, Montana State University, Bozeman.

2012 Invited Lecture, “The Republic of Nature: American History as Environmental History,” Environment and Society Lecture Series, Green College, University of British Columbia, Vancouver.

2012 Invited Lecture, “The Republic of Nature: American History as Environmental History,” Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, University of Colorado, Boulder.

2012 Invited Field Critique, The Republic of Nature: Rediscovering the Environmental Origins of American History, Organization of American Historians Annual Meeting, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. [The Republic of Nature subject of a critique by Mary Beth Norton, Eric Foner, and Linda Gordon.]

2011 Invited Panelist, Roundtable: The Past and Future of Western History, Western History Association 51st Annual Conference, Oakland, California.

2011 Invited Lecture, “The Republic of Nature: American History as Environmental History,” Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, University of Colorado, Boulder.

2010 Invited Lecture, “The Republic of Nature: Environmental History and the Master Narrative of the American Past,” Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, University of Colorado, Boulder.

2010 Invited Lecture, “Nature’s Nobleman: Abraham Lincoln and the Improvement of America,” University of Colorado, Denver.

2010 Invited Paper, “National Parks and the Environmental History Imperative,” American Society for Environmental History Annual Conference, Portland, Oregon.

2009 Lincoln Legacy Lecture, “Land of Lincoln: Environmental History and the Sixteenth President,” Center for State Policy and Leadership, University of Illinois, Springfield.

2009 Invited Lecture, “Our Broad National Homestead: Lincoln and the Nature of the United States,” 24th Annual Lincoln Colloquium, Lincoln Home National Historic Site, Springfield, Illinois.

2009 Invited Paper, “Environmental Histories as a Resource for Park Managers,” International Conference on Renewable Energy in National Parks, Polish Tatra National Park, Zakopane, Poland.

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2008 Invited Panelist, What Are Environmental Histories and How Can I Get Them for My Park? National Park Service Intermountain Region Resource Stewardship Conference, Tucson, Arizona.

2008 Invited Paper, “Environmental Histories as a Resource for Managers,” Rocky Mountain Cooperative Ecosystems Studies Units Executive Committee Meeting, Estes Park, Colorado.

2006 Invited Lecture, “Atomic Sublime: Scientists and Nature at Los Alamos,” The Unexpected West Lecture Series, Colorado Historical Society, Denver.

2006 Invited Panelist, Working Fertile Ground: Environmental and Agricultural History at the New Millenium, Western History Association 46th Annual Conference, St. Louis, Missouri.

2006 Invited Paper, “The Road to Brown v. Board, or, The Natural History of the Color Line,” Workshop in the History of Agriculture and the Environment, Department of History, University of Georgia, Athens.

2006 Invited Paper, “From Parchment to Plutonium: Finding Nature at the Heart of American History,” Department of History, University of California, Davis.

2006 Invited Paper, “The Weedy West,” Biological Invasions IGERT (Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship) graduate seminar, University of California, Davis.

2005 Invited Lecture, “From Parchment to Plutonium: Finding Nature at the Heart of American History,” Scholars Week, Western Washington University, Bellingham.

2004 Invited Lecture, “The Enclosure and the Commons in American History,” Forest, Rangeland, and Watershed Stewardship Open Departmental Seminar, College of Natural Resources, Colorado State University, Fort Collins.

2004 Invited Lecture, “On the Importance of Archives to Colorado Water and Agricultural History,” Holding on to the Past, Preparing for the Future: Colorado’s Water and Agricultural Legacy, Colorado State University Libraries, Fort Collins.

2004 Invited Panelist, Growth and Sustainability Along the Front Range, Colloquium on Environmental Research, Colorado State University, Fort Collins.

2004 Invited Paper, “The Weedy West: Mobile Nature, Boundaries, and the Production of Common Space in the Montana Landscape,” Creating Space: Across Histories, Cultures, and Disciplines, 2nd Annual Michael P. Malone Memorial Conference, Montana State University, Bozeman.

2004 Invited Paper, “Natural Histories: Retelling Great Stories of the American Past,” Nature and Culture Seminar, Hall Center for the Humanities, University of Kansas, Lawrence.

2004 Invited Panelist, Challenges and Promises of Environmental History/Geography in the 21st Century, Vancouver-Green College Interdisciplinary Group, Nature/History/Society, Green College, University of British Columbia, Vancouver.

2004 Invited Lecture, “Western American Landscapes: What’s So Western?” American West Program Lecture Series, Colorado State University, Fort Collins.

2004 Invited Lecture, “Parts and Wholes: The Mixing of Boundaries, Nature, and People in Western American Landscape,” Water Initiative Seminar, Utah State University, Logan.

2003 Invited Lecture, “Diversity in the Frontier West” (with Blane Harding and Joon Kim), Meyer Nathan Lectures, Colorado State University, Fort Collins.

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2003 Invited Panelist, Water in the West: Multiple Visions, 1866-2003, Colorado Endowment for the Humanities, Morgan Library, Colorado State University, Fort Collins.

2003 Invited Lecture, “The Environmental History of Western Water,” Summer Teacher Institute, Colorado Endowment for the Humanities and Colorado State University, Fort Collins.

2002 Invited Panelist, Working Eden: Hard Times and Idaho Farmwork, Idaho BookFest, Log Cabin Literary Center, Boise, Idaho.

2002 Invited Lecture, “The Aesthetics of Water and the Art of Irrigation in the American West,” Summer Teacher Institute, Oregon Council for the Humanities, Reed College, Portland, Oregon.

2001 Invited Participant, Working Group sessions, Landscape Legacies Conference, Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina.

Professional Meetings, Symposia, Lectures, Workshops, Book Talks, Residencies 2016 Participant and Faculty Instructor, “The Culture of Nature: Managing Horseshoe Park,

Rocky Mountain National Park,” Parks as Portals to Learning Annual Field Workshop, Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado.

2016 Research Presentation, “National Parks and the Significance of John Roberts White,” WEST Network 4th Annual Workshop, Southwestern Research Station, American Museum of Natural History, Chiricahua Mountains, Arizona.

2016 Paper, “Col. John Roberts White and the Dual Natures of Sequoia National Park,” Dual Natures: Stories from a Century of National Parks, Public Lands History Center and American West Program, Colorado State University, Fort Collins.

2016 Session Commentator, Fiege-fying American History: Expanding The Republic of Nature, American Society for Environmental History Annual Conference, Seattle, Washington.

2016 Session Moderator and Organizer, Partnerships at the Nexus of History, Science, and Management: Challenges and Opportunities, American Society for Environmental History Annual Conference, Seattle, Washington.

2015 Research and Writing Residency, December 6-12, for book project “Elegant Conservation: Management in a Time of Unprecedented Uncertainty,” Continental Divide Research Learning Center, McGraw Ranch field station, Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado.

2015 Moderator, One Hundred Years of Rocky Mountain National Park: Conversations on Park History and Interpretation, featuring Thomas Andrews, Rich Fedorchak, and the audience, Public Lands History Center and American West Program, Colorado State University, Fort Collins.

2015 Participant and Faculty Instructor, “Change, Restoration, and Management in Moraine Park, Rocky Mountain National Park,” Parks as Portals to Learning Annual Field Workshop, Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado.

2015 Research Presentation, “Bullets, Bolos, and Big Trees: The Insurgencies of Col. John Roberts White,” WEST Network 3rd Annual Workshop, University of Colorado Mountain Research Station, Niwot Ridge, Colorado.

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2014 Participant, Global Challenges Research Team Seminar on History and Ecology led by Drs. Ruth Alexander and Jill Baron, School of Global Environmental Sustainability, Colorado State University, Fort Collins.

2014 Participant, University-National Park Service Partnerships in the Twenty-First Century: A Working Group, Conference on Western Lands, Western Voices: The American West Center at Fifty, 1964-2014, University of Utah, Salt Lake City.

2014 Participant and Faculty Instructor, “Change, Restoration, and Management in Moraine Park, Rocky Mountain National Park,” Parks as Portals to Learning Annual Field Workshop, Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado.

2014 Research Presentation, “Elegant Conservation: Recovering Community, Connectivity, and Continuity in the Age of Fracture,” WEST Network 2nd Annual Workshop, Indiana University Geologic Field Station, Tobacco Root Mountains, Montana.

2014 Panelist and Session Co-organizer, Round Table on Ideas are Sustainable Tools: Pragmatism as a Resource for Environmental Historians, American Society for Environmental History Annual Conference, San Francisco, California.

2014 Participant, breakout session on American Indians and Biodiversity, Biodiversity Workshop, Estes Institute and Rocky Mountain National Park, Estes Park, Colorado.

2013 Session Chair, Landscapes in Motion: Transportation Networks and Changing Perspectives on Place, Western History Association 53rd Annual Conference, Tucson, Arizona.

2013 Participant and Faculty Instructor, “Change, Restoration, and Management in Moraine Park, Rocky Mountain National Park,” Parks as Portals to Learning Annual Field Workshop, Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado.

2013 Observer, symposium on The History and Politics of the Anthropocene, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois.

2013 Research Presentation, WEST Network 1st Annual Workshop, Colorado State University, Pingree Park Mountain Campus, Colorado.

2013 Co-organizer and Moderator, Coping with Extremes: A Western Water Symposium, Public Lands History Center and Morgan Library, Colorado State University, Fort Collins.

2013 Talk on The Republic of Nature at School of Global Environmental Sustainability, Colorado State University, Fort Collins.

2013 Paper, “The Forgotten Promise of Improvement: René Dubos and The Wooing of Earth,” American Society for Environmental History Annual Conference, Toronto, Ontario.

2013 Panelist, Round Table on Environmental History for the Twenty-First Century, American Historical Association 127th Annual Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana.

2013 Paper, “Crude Freedom: Fossil Fuels, the Great Migration, and American Democracy,” American Historical Association 127th Annual Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana.

2012 Session Chair, Manifest Motives: Histories of the Common and Complex Ideas that Shaped Western Expansion, Western History Association 52nd Annual Conference, Denver, Colorado.

2012 Session Chair, Water Politics of the Colorado River Basin, Western History Association 52nd Annual Conference, Denver, Colorado.

2012 Session Chair and Commentator, Saving the Wild Horses: Bounding the Physical and Perceptive Problem, Western History Association 52nd Annual Conference, Denver, Colorado.

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2012 Presentation, “Environmental History: The Development and Shape of the Field,” Environmental Histories in the LTER Network, LTER (Long Term Ecological Research) All Scientists Meeting, Estes Park, Colorado.

2012 Lecture, “The Republic of Nature,” Center for Environmental Studies, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island.

2012 Lecture, “The Republic of Nature: Environmental History and the Canonical American Past,” The New School, New York, New York.

2012 Lecture, “The Republic of Nature: Environmental History and the Canonical American Past,” Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania.

2012 Lecture, “Rethinking Nature in American History: Abraham Lincoln and the Founding of the USDA,” U.S. Forest Service, Washington, D.C.

2012 Lecture, “The Republic of Nature,” Center for the Environment and Department of History, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.

2012 Lecture, “The Republic of Nature: An Environmental History of the United States,” Program on the Global Environment and the Workshop on American Social History, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois.

2012 Lecture, “The Republic of Nature: Environmental History and the Canonical American Past,” Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies, University of Wisconsin, Madison.

2012 Presentation, “Writing The Republic of Nature and Rethinking Environmental History,” CHE Environmental History Colloqium, Center for Culture, History, and Environment, University of Wisconsin, Madison.

2012 Talks on The Republic of Nature at Country Bookshelf, Bozeman, Montana; Colorado Center for Literature and Art, Denver; Missouri Headwaters State Park, Three Forks, Montana; Third Place Books, Lake Forest Park, Washington; Everett (Washington) Public Library; Village Books, Bellingham, Washington; University of Washington Bookstore/Town Hall, Seattle; Tattered Cover Book Store, Denver, Colorado; Boulder Bookstore, Boulder, Colorado; Old Firehouse Books, Fort Collins, Colorado; Harvard Coop Bookstore, Cambridge, Massachusetts; Barnes & Noble, Warwick, Rhode Island; Barnes and Noble Center City, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Barnes & Noble, Tarleton, New Jersey; Abraham Lincoln Book Shop, Chicago, Illinois.

2012 Lecture, “Recent Trends in American Environmental History,” Loveland Public Library, Loveland, Colorado.

2012 Paper, “The Republic of Nature,” and Panelist, The Subversive Power of Environmental History, National History Center Session, American Historical Association 126th Annual Meeting, Chicago, Illinois.

2011 Symposium Co-organizer and Co-moderator, with Adrian Howkins and Jared Orsi, National Parks Beyond the Nation: Global Perspectives on the History of “America’s Best Idea,” Public Lands History Center, Colorado State University, Fort Collins.

2011 Paper, “Cowboy Resource Management: The Influence of Livestock Husbandry on the National Park Service,” American Society for Environmental History Annual Conference, Phoenix, Arizona.

2011 Session Chair, Race and Resources: The Human Ecology of River Development in Texas and New Mexico, American Society for Environmental History Annual Conference, Phoenix, Arizona.

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2011 Panelist, Environmental History and the National Parks, Special Workshop for High School Students and Teachers, sponsored by the National Park Service, American Society for Environmental History Annual Conference, Phoenix, Arizona.

2010 Session Chair, Forests, Mines and Rails: Work and Western Environments, Western History Association 50th Annual Conference, Incline Village, Nevada.

2010 Paper, “Iron Horses: Muscle Power and the First Transcontinental Railway,” American Society for Environmental History Annual Conference, Portland, Oregon.

2010 Paper, “History of Western Landscapes,” Maintaining and Managing Working Landscapes of the West, Society for Range Management Annual Meeting, Denver, Colorado.

2009 Session Chair, Climate History, Water, and Global Warming in the North American West: A Roundtable Discussion, Western History Association 49th Annual Conference, Denver, Colorado.

2009 Session Chair and Commentator, Ranching in the “Wired” West: Global Markets, Land Reform, and Technology in the 19th Century, Western History Association 49th Annual Conference, Denver, Colorado.

2008 Paper, “Administrative History of Livestock Grazing in National Parks,” with Maren Bzdek, National Park Service Intermountain Region Resource Stewardship Conference, Tucson, Arizona.

2008 Session Chair and Commentator, Nature Behind Barbed Wire: Environmental Histories of Japanese American Internment, American Society for Environmental History Annual Conference, Boise, Idaho.

2007 Session Commentator, Mobilizing Rivers in the Second World War, American Society for Environmental History Annual Conference, Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

2007 Session Chair, The American Revolution’s Environmental History: New Perspectives, American Society for Environmental History Annual Conference, Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

2007 Panelist, Finding the Edge: Writing Expansive Environmental History, American Society for Environmental History Annual Conference, Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

2006 Paper, “Bodies Politic: Toward a Natural History of the American Revolution,” American Society for Environmental History Annual Conference, St. Paul, Minnesota.

2006 Session Chair, Restructuring Rivers, Lives, and Landscapes in the Pacific Northwest, American Society for Environmental History Annual conference, St. Paul, Minnesota.

2005 Session Chair and Commentator, Mastering Energy in Western Agriculture and Mining, American Society for Environmental History Annual Conference, Houston, Texas.

2004 Lead Historian, Colonial America, Project TEACH (Teaching Excellence in American and Colorado History), Thornton, Colorado.

2004 Session Co-organizer, Mapping Nature, American Society for Environmental History Annual Conference, Victoria, British Columbia.

2004 Session Chair, Competing Visions of Cultural Places and Natural Spaces: Native American and non-Indian Landscapes, American society for Environmental History Annual Conference, Victoria, British Columbia.

2003 Lead Historian, Colorado and the West, Project TEACH (Teaching Excellence in American and Colorado History), Thornton and Fort Collins, Colorado.

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2003 Paper, “Transnational and Transnatural: Building the First Transcontinental Railway,” Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations Annual Conference, George Washington University, Washington, D.C.

2002 Session Chair and Co-organizer, The Western Roots of American Empire: Exploring the Frontier between Western History and American Foreign Relations, Western History Association 42nd Annual Conference, Colorado Springs, Colorado.

2002 Paper, “High Tide at Cemetery Ridge: The Nature of Warfare in the Gettysburg Campaign,” American Society for Environmental History Annual Conference, Denver, Colorado.

2002 Session Chair, Structure and Infrastructure: Reshaping Western Landscapes, American Society for Environmental History Annual Conference, Denver, Colorado.

2001 Paper, “Applying Spatial Theory to Environmental History: Examples from the North American West,” 11th International Conference of Historical Geographers, Quebec City, Quebec.

2001 Session Chair, Developing Local Water Resources, Symposium on Water and Rural History, Agricultural History Society and USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service, University of Nevada, Reno.

2001 Session Co-chair and Co-organizer, Millennial Visions: Opportunities and Constraints in Environmental History, American Society for Environmental History Annual Conference, Durham, North Carolina.

2000 Session Commentator, Speaking for Nature: Gender, Modernity, and Landscape, Western History Association 40th Annual Conference, San Antonio, Texas.

2000 Paper, “This House of Weeds: Exotic Species and the Production of Public Space in the Montana Landscape,” American Society for Environmental History Annual Conference, Tacoma, Washington.

1998 Paper, “The Ecological Commons: Private Property and Ecological Relationships in Western American Landscape,” J.B. Jackson and American Landscape Conference, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque.

1997 Commentator on Thomas Thomas, “Roads to a Troubled Future,” 2nd Front Range History Conference, Laramie, Wyoming.

1997 Participant, Tribal Landscapes and Identities Seminar, D’Arcy McNickle Center for American Indian History, Newberry Library, Chicago, Illinois.

1996 Co-Organizer and Moderator, Drought and Colorado History Panel Discussion, with Len Boulas, Nolan Doesken, and Robert Ward, College of Engineering, Colorado State University, Fort Collins.

1993 Paper, “J.B. Jackson: A Perspective from Environmental History,” forum on the film Figure in a Landscape: A Conversation with J.B. Jackson, Utah Historical Society, Salt Lake City.

1993 Paper, “Blooming Gardens and Factories in the Fields: Myth, Metaphor, and the Cultural Contradictions of Irrigation Agriculture in Idaho,” American Society for Environmental History Conference, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

1992 Paper, “Wildlife and Irrigation Agriculture in the Snake River Valley of Idaho,” Western History Association 32nd Annual Conference, New Haven, Connecticut.

1992 Paper, “Wildlife and Irrigation Systems along the Snake river, Idaho,” North American Wildlife and Natural Resources Conference, Charlotte, North Carolina.

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1989 Paper, “Instruments of Order: Hydroelectric Power Plants of Utah, 1881-1927,” Building the West: A Conference on Vernacular Architecture West of the Rockies, Reno, Nevada.

1987 Paper, “General Electric, Montana Power, the Anaconda Copper Mining Company, and Steam Railroad Electrification in Montana, 1912-1917,” Pacific Northwest History Conference, Spokane, Washington.

1986 Paper, “Butte-Anaconda Historical Park System: A Progress Report,” National Trust for Historic Preservation Annual Conference, Kansas City, Missouri.

1985 Paper, “Foundry on the Frontier: The Foundry Department of the Anaconda Copper Mining Company,” Society for Industrial Archaeology 14th Annual Conference, Newark, New Jersey.

PUBLIC HISTORY Public Lands History Center In 2007, I co-founded the Public Lands History Center (PLHC), a research unit at Colorado State

University the purpose of which is to apply scholarly historical methodologies in service to public land and resource agencies, organizations, and institutions. Since its creation, the PLHC has generated some $2 million in funded projects of various kinds.

Funded Projects Since about 1997, alone and in collaboration with other colleagues, and before and after the

establishment of the Public Lands History Center, I have been directly responsible for bringing in some $700,000 for various public history research, writing, and educational projects.

Reports Since 1985, I have authored, co-authored, researched, supervised, and edited some two dozen

reports on behalf of partners and clients such as the Army Corps of Engineers, the Bureau of Indian Affairs, and the National Park Service.

REVIEWS Books 2015 William deBuys, A Great Aridness: Climate Change and the Future of the American

Southwest, In: Western Historical Quarterly, v. 46, no. 1, Spring, pp. 75-76. 2009 Jared Farmer, On Zion’s Mount: Mormons, Indians, and the American Landscape, In:

Western Historical Quarterly, v. 40, no. 3, Autumn, pp. 367-368. 2008 Aaron Sachs, The Humboldt Current: Nineteenth-Century Exploration and the Roots of

American Environmentalism, In: Pacific Historical Review, v. 77, May, pp. 316-318. 2007 Finis Dunaway, Natural Visions: The Power of Images in Environmental Reform, In:

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Winterthur Portfolio, v. 41, Summer/Autumn, pp. 194-196. 2007 Elizabeth Orr and William Orr, Oregon Water: An Environmental History, In: Pacific

Northwest Quarterly, v. 98, Spring, p.101. 2006 William G. Robbins, Landscapes of Promise: The Oregon Story, 1940-2000, In: American

Historical Review, v. 111, April, pp. 524-525. 2006 Rachel Carson, Silent Spring: 40th Annual Edition (1962/2002), In: Agricultural History, v.

80, Winter, pp. 107-108. 2005 Kathleen A. Brosnan, Uniting Mountain and Plain: Cities, Law, and Environmental Change

along the Front Range, In: New Mexico Historical Review, v. 80, Winter, pp. 90-91. 2005 Stephen Bogener, Ditches Across the Desert: Irrigation in the Lower Pecos Valley, In:

American Historical Review, v. 110, October, pp. 1214-1215. 2004 Deborah Fitzgerald, Every Farm a Factory: The Industrial Ideal in American Agriculture, In:

American Historical Review, v. 109, December, pp. 1594-1595. 2003 John Shurts, Indian Reserved Rights: The Winters Doctrine in its Social and Legal Context,

1880s-1930s, In: Montana, The Magazine of Western History, v. 53, Spring, pp. 85-86. 2002 Kendrick Clements, Hoover, Conservation, and Consumerism: Engineering the Good Life,

In: Isis, v. 93, September, pp. 513-514. 2002 Edmund Ruffin, Nature’s Management: Writings on Landscape and Reform, 1822-1859, In:

Georgia Historical Quarterly, v. 86, Spring, pp. 125-127. 2002 Randall Beeman and James Pritchard, A Green and Permanent Land: Ecology and

Agriculture in the Twentieth Century, In: Pacific Historical Review, v. 71, May, pp. 329-331. 2001 Char Miller and Hal Rothman, eds., Out of the Woods: Essays in Environmental History, In:

Nevada Historical Quarterly, v. 44, Winter, pp. 389-391. 2001 Ruth Kirk, Sunrise to Paradise: The Story of Mount Rainier National Park, In: New Mexico

Historical Review, v. 76, January, pp. 111-112. 2000 Thomas Raymond Wellock, Critical Masses: Opposition to Nuclear Power in California,

1958-1978, In: American Historical Review, v. 105, October, pp. 1349-1350. 2000 Joseph E. Taylor III, Making Salmon: An Environmental History of the Northwest Fisheries

Crisis, In: Western Historical Quarterly, v. 31, Winter, pp. 495-496. 2000 William Wyckoff, Creating Colorado: The Making of a Western American Landscape, 1860-

1940, In: Environmental History, v. 5, October, pp. 569-570. 2000 Ethan Carr, Wilderness by Design: Landscape Architecture in the National Park Service, In:

Annals of Wyoming, v. 72, Winter, pp. 42-43. 1998 David W. Teague, The Southwest in American Literature and Art: The Rise of a Desert

Aesthetic, In: Environmental History, v. 3, October, pp. 532-533. 1997-1998 Donald C. Jackson, Building the Ultimate Dam: John S. Eastwood and the Control of

Water in the American West, In: Pacific Northwest Quarterly, v. 89, Winter, p. 42. 1996 A.E. Rogge et al., Raising Arizona’s Dams: Daily Life, Danger, and Discrimination in the

Construction Camps of Arizona, 1880s-1940s, In: IA: The Journal of the Society for Industrial Archeology, v. 22, pp. 69-70.

1995 Donald A. Barclay et al., Into the Wilderness Dream: Exploration Narratives of the American West, 1500-1805; William G. Robbins, Colony and Empire: The Capitalist Transformation of the American West; Rebecca Solnit, Savage Dreams: A Journey into the Hidden Wars of the American West; Richard White and Patricia Nelson Limerick, The

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Frontier in American Culture, In: Forest and Conservation History, v. 39, October, pp. 201-202.

1995 Mary Bradshaw Richards, Camping Out in Yellowstone, 1882, ed. William W. Slaughter, In: Pacific Northwest Quarterly, v. 86, Fall, p. 192.

1995 Downs Mathews, Polar Bear; Wayne Lynch, Bears: Monarchs of the Northern Wilderness; In: Journal of the West, v. 34, October, p. 100.

1995 Paul C. Pitzer, Grand Coulee: Harnessing a Dream, In: Ilahee: Journal for the Northwest Environment, v. 11, Spring/Summer, p. 104.

1993 Peter Boag, Environment and Experience: Settlement Culture in Nineeenth Century Oregon, In: Environmental History Review, v. 17, Winter, pp. 94-95.

Book Manuscripts and Book Proposals Acada Books Blackwell Publishing Bradford Publishing Co. Facts on File Oxford University Press Routledge University of Arizona Press University of Chicago Press University of California Press University of Georgia Press University of Nebraska Press University Press of Colorado University Press of Kansas University of Oklahoma Press University of Virginia Press University of Washington Press W.W. Norton & Co. Yale University Press Article Manuscripts Agricultural History American Historical Review Ecological Applications Environmental History Geographical Review History: The Journal of the Historical Association Journal of Historical Geography Oregon Historical Quarterly Pacific Northwest Quarterly Western Historical Quarterly

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Exhibit and Curation Proposals Colorado Historical Society Fort Collins Museum Historic Armory, Inc. Longmont Museum Morgan Library, Colorado State University Government and NGO Reports and Grant Applications Colorado Department of Transportation Idaho State University, Office of Research National Parks Conservation Association National Park Service Oklahoma State University, Environmental Institute USDA Agricultural Research Service Tenure and Promotion Cases Department of History, Augsburg College Department of History, Fordham University Department of History, Idaho State University Department of History, Kansas State University Department of History, Montana State University Department of History, New Mexico State University Department of History, Stony Brook University Department of History, Texas Tech University Department of History, University of California, Davis Department of History, University of Colorado, Denver Department of History, University of Denver Department of History, University of Idaho TEACHING Graduate courses American Environmental History (reading seminar) Historiography (reading and methods seminar) State and Local History (research seminar) United States since 1877 (reading seminar) United States (research seminar) Independent Study Internship

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Practicum Thesis Undergraduate courses American Civilization United States since 1876 United States 1917-1945 American West to 1900 American West since 1900 American Environmental History History of America’s National Parks Capstone Seminar: War and Nature Capstone Seminar: Environmental Disasters Capstone Seminar: American Historians Capstone Seminar: Narrating History Internship Independent Study Supervised College Teaching Students From 1994-2016, I supervised or co-supervised to completion the programs of 38 graduate students (CSU offers only an M.A. in history) and three undergraduate honors students, 41 total. Of these students, 23 wrote theses and two (Mike Geary and Nick Johnson) have turned their theses into books from university presses. (Nick’s is still forthcoming.) I also supervised and mentored 3 graduate students who conducted substantial research and writing for Public Lands History Center projects. All of my 44 former students are now university professors, teachers, public historians, doctoral students, attorneys, administrators, land managers, real estate agents, park rangers, military officers, journalists, writers, editors, and other professionals: Samantha “Sam” Arbeiter Albers Craig Boardman Mark Boxell Hayley Brazier Janell Nelson Byczkowski Maren Thompson Bzdek Brian Collier Sean Crotty Allan Ewert Stephanie Guerra Flores Darcy Gamble Michael “Mike” Geary

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Lauren Giebler Jennifer “Jenny” Hawk Matthew “Matt” Hildner Jenika Howe Elliott Peter Howland Nick Johnson Cori Knudten Nicolai “Nic” Kryloff Bradford “Brad” Lardner Paul “PT” Lathrop Thomas “Tommy” Latousek David Lively Carol Hutton Lucking Jeff Malcomsen Kelsey Matson Amy Meger Emelin “Emmie” Miller Nancy Oliveira Brooke Pogue Susan Quinnell (Zietkiewicz) Eric Saulnier Joel Scherer Ashley Snyder Sierra Autumn Standish Kayla Steele Mary Swanson Patrick “Pat” Sylvestre Dane Vanhoozer Vernon Theodore “Ted” Veggeberg Alexandra Wallace Will Wright Richard “Rick” Zier SERVICE Profession American Society for Environmental History Alice Hamilton Prize Committee American Society for Environmental History Rachel Carson Prize Committee American Society for Environmental History Local Arrangements Committee Forest History Society Collier Award Committee Western History Association Conference Program Committee Western History Association W. Turrentine Jackson Award Committee Western History Association Council

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Western Historical Quarterly Editorial Board University Guest Scholars Committee University Environmental and Sustainability Advisory Committee School of Global Environmental Sustainability (SoGES) Curriculum Committee College American Studies Committee Center for Public History and Archaeology Advisory Committee (co-founder) College of Liberal Arts Curriculum Committee College of Liberal Arts Policy Studies Institute Committee Environmental Affairs Interdisciplinary Studies Certificate and Minor Program Committee (co-

founder, director, co-director, adviser) Morgan Library Archives and Special Collections Advisory Group Morgan Library Water Resources Archive Advisory Committee Morgan Library Water Tables Fundraiser Planning Committee Public Lands History Center (co-founder and council member) Water Resources Interdisciplinary Studies Committee Department Awards Committee Executive Committee Executive Committee ex officio Chair, Graduate Studies Committee Graduate Studies Committee Key Adviser Morgan Library Liaison Chair, Stegner Chair Committee Chair, Tenure and Promotion Committee Tenure and Promotion Committee Chair, Undergraduate Studies Committee Chair, Undergraduate Awards Committee Chair, Borderlands Search Committee Department Chair Search Committee Nineteenth Century U.S. Search Committee Chair, U.S./Public History Search Committee Chair, U.S. South Search Committee American West Program Ad Hoc Committee Evaluation Standards Ad Hoc Committee Outcomes Assessment Committee

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Ph.D. Program Committee Ad Hoc Committee on Tenure and Promotion Revisions Ad-Hoc Planning Committee Guest Speakers Since 1994, I have worked with colleagues to nominate, invite, host, and/or introduce publically a range of prominent guest speakers who work in my areas of interest: Vicky Albritton, University of Chicago John Logan Allen, University of Wyoming Thomas Andrews, University of Colorado Jennifer Eastman Attebery, Idaho State University Len Boulas, Colorado Office of Emergency Management Kathleen “Kathy” Brosnan, University of Houston Mark Carey, University of Oregon Jane Carruthers, University of South Africa Theodore “Ted” Catton, University of Montana Chris Conte, Utah State University Sara Dant, Weber State University Philip “Phil” Deloria, University of Michigan Nolan Doeskin, Colorado Climate Center José Drummond, Universidade de Brasília Rich Fedorchak, Rocky Mountain National Park Justice Greg Hobbs, Colorado Supreme Court Anne Hyde, Colorado College Donald “DC” Jackson, Lafayette College Fredrik Albritton Jonsson, University of Chicago Ari Kelman, University of California, Davis Patrick Kupper, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Nancy Langston, Michigan Technological University Patricia “Patty” Limerick, University of Colorado Alan MacEachern, University of Western Ontario Ann McGrath, Australian National University Ben Minteer, Arizona State University William Perry Pendley, Mountain States Legal Fund Donald “Don” Pisani, University of Oklahoma Jennifer “Jenny” Price, Los Angeles Urban Rangers Stephen Pyne, Arizona State University Charles “Chuck” Rankin, University of Oklahoma Steven “Steve” Rodriguez, Los Angeles, California Karen Routledge, Parks Canada Bruce Runnels and Greg Gamble, The Nature Conservancy William “Bill” Philpott, University of Denver

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Steven Schulte, Mesa State College Susan Schulten, University of Denver Paul Sutter, University of Colorado William R. “Bill” Travis, University of Colorado Joseph E. “Jay” Taylor III, Simon Fraser University Emily Wakild, Boise State University Brett Walker, Montana State University Louis Warren, University of California, Davis Marsha Weisiger, University of Oregon Richard White, Stanford University PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS American Historical Association American Society for Environmental History Colorado Regional Environmental History Workshop Forest History Society George Wright Society Montana Historical Society National Council on Public History Organization of American Historians Western History Association WEST Network (Western Historians of Environment, Society, and Technology) REFERENCES Dr. Ben Bobowski, Superintendent, Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve, U.S. National

Park Service, Alaska. Dr. William Cronon, Fredrick Jackson Turner and Vilas Research Professor of History,

Geography, and Environmental Studies, University of Wisconsin, Madison. Dr. Ellen Stroud, Associate Professor of History, Penn State University. Dr. Conevery Valencius, Professor of History, Boston College. Dr. Louis Warren, W. Turrentine Jackson Professor of Western U.S. History, University of

California at Davis. Dr. Marsha Weisiger, Julia and Rocky Dixon Chair of U.S. Western History, University of Oregon. Dr. Richard White, Margaret Byrne Professor of American History, Stanford University. Dr. Graeme Wynn, Professor of Geography and Fellow, The Royal Society of Canada, University

of British Columbia.