PUBLICATIONS

(Books)

Yosemite and Sequoia: A Century of California National Parks. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1993. (Co-Editor and Contributor)

Public Lands, Public Heritage: The National Forest Idea. Niwot, Colorado: Roberts Rinehart Publishers, 1991.

Yosemite: The Embattled Wilderness. Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 1990. Paperback Edition, 1993.

National Parks: The American Experience. Second Edition, Revised. Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 1987. Paperback Edition, 1987.

Chapter 12, "Decision in Alaska," reprinted in Clyde A. Milner II, ea., Major Problems in the History of the American West. Lexington, Massachusetts and Toronto: D. C. Heath and Company, 1989, pp. 588-600.

Trains of Discovery: Western Railroads and the National Parks. Flagstaff, Arizona: Northland Press, 1984. Paperback Edition, 1984.

Reprint Edition, with revisions. Niwot, Colorado: Roberts Rinehart, Inc., 1990. Collector's Edition, with revisions, 1993.

National Parks: The American Experience. Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska 979. Paperback Edition, 1984.

(Pamphlets and Chapters in Books, selected)

"The Role of Niagara in America's Scenic Preservation." Adamson, Jeremy Elwell, et al., Niagara: Two Centuries of Changing Attitudes 1697-1901. Washington, D.C.: Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1985; pp. 116-127.

Burlington Northern and the Dedication of Mount St. Helens: New Legacy of a Proud Tradition. Seattle: Burlington Northern Inc., 1982.

"The Artist and the Environment: The Role of Romanticism in Saving the American West." Hart, E. Richard, ed. That Awesome Space: Human Interaction with the Intermountain Landscape. Salt Lake City: Westwater Press, Inc., 1931, pp. 32-34.

"Legacy of the Parks." The American Land. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Exposition Books, 1979, pp. 136-143.

"The West: Wealth, Wonderland, and Wilderness." Watson, J. Wreford and O'Riordan, Timothy, eds. The American Environment: Perceptions and Policies. London: John Wiley and Sons, 1976, pp. 47-62.

(Selected Articles, most recent or most cited)

"Promoting Wonderland: Western Railroads and the Evolution of National Park Advertising." Journal of the West 31 (January 1992): 43-48.

"Promoting the Golden West: Advertising and the Railroad." California History 70 (Spring 1991) : 62-75.

"The California National Parks Centennial: Introduction to the Special Issue," and "Joseph Grinnell and Yosemite: Rediscovering the Legacy of a California Conservationist." California History 69 (Summer 1990): 86-91, 170-181.

"The National Parks in Idealism and Reality." Montana: The Magazine of Western History 38 (Summer 1988): 75-76.

"Environmental Historians as Resource Educators." Organization of American Historians Newsletter 13 (August 1985): 6-7.

"Preservation Heritage: The Origins of the Park Idea in the United States." Indiana Historical Society Lectures 1983 Bloomington: Indiana Historical Society, 1984, pp. 52-75.

With Sellars, Richard W., et al. "The National Parks: A Forum on the 'Worthless Lands' Thesis." Journal of Forest History 27 (July 1983): 130-145.

"Burlington Northern and the Legacy of Mount St. Helens." Pacific Northwest Quarterly 74 (July 1983) : 116-123.

Reprinted: Schwantes, Carlos A., and Edwards, G.Thomas, eds.

Experiences in a Promised Land: Essays in Pacific Northwest History. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1986, pp. 369-379.

"The National Park Idea: Origins and Paradox of the American Experience." Journal of Forest History 21 (April 1977): 64-75.

"The Yosemite Valley Railroad: Highway of History, Pathway of Promise." National Parks and Conservation Magazine: The Environmental Journal 48 (December 1974): 4-9. Reprinted: National Railway Historical Society Bulletin 40 (Number 3, Summer 1975): 10-17, 70.

"Pragmatic Alliance: Western Railroads and the National Parks." National Parks and Conservation Magazine: The Environmental Journal 48 (April 1974): 14-21.

Reprinted: National Railway Historical Society Bulletin 39 (Number 4, Summer 1974): 6-20

"Worthless Lands: Our National Parks." The American West 10 (May 1973): 4-11.

"Beyond the Spectacular: The Niagara Falls Preservation Campaign." New-York Historical Society Quarterly 57 (January 1973): 30-50.

"How Niagara Falls Was Saved: The Beginning of Esthetic Conservation in the United States." The Conservationist 26 (April-May 1972): 32-35, 43.

"Yellowstone: It's Useless, So Why Not a Park?" National Parks and Conservation Magazine: The Environmental Journal 46 (March 1972): 4-7.

(Other Publications)

Book reviews and review essays in major professional journals (seventy-five plus); general publications and invited opinion pieces on the environment, transportation, national parks, and resource issues in specialty journals and leading newspapers, including the Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, and Seattle Times, among others (fifty plus); contributions to government proceedings, professional newsletters, and scholarly encyclopedias, including the Encyclopedia of Southern Culture and the Encyclopedia of American Forest and Conservation History.

MAJOR UNPUBLISHED WORKS

M.A. Thesis, "The Scenic Preservation Movement in the United States, 1864-1916." Illinois State University, 1971, 136 pp.

MAJOR MEDIA APPEARANCES (selected)

CBS News, "Forty-Eight Hours," August 4, 1988. NBC News, "The Today Show," September 3, 1990. ABC News, "Nightline," July 5, 1991.

FUND-RAISING, FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS, AND AWARDS (selected)

Original Proposal and Subsequent Negotiations--Weyerhaeuser Company Donation of the Chehalis Western Railroad to the City of Tacoma, Washington, October 16, 1986-August 19, 1990. Donation Value: $5,000,000 plus.

Original Proposal, Subsequent Negotiations, Treatment, and Draft Script--Film Production Grant, Burlington Northern Foundation to the National Park Foundation, 1986-88. Project: "The Future of Yosemite." Amount: $516,000.

Herbert E. Kahler Research Fellowship, Eastern National Park and Monument Association, 1987. Project: "Yosemite: The Embattled Wilderness." Amount. 84,000.

Research Grant, Resources for the Future, Inc., 1986. Project: "Yosemite: The Embattled Wilderness." Amount: $30,000.

Frederick K. Weyerhaeuser Award, October 1978, Best Article (1977), Journal of Forest History.

Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship, Resources for the Future, Inc., Academic Year 1973-74. Project: "National Parks: The American Experience." Amount: $4,500.

Fellow, 13th Annual Seminar for Historical Administrators, National Trust for Historic Preservation and Colonial Williamsburg, Inc., Williamsburg, Virginia, Summer 1971.

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