Vita – Prof. Paul Lindholdt

Paul Jeffrey Lindholdt
Professor of English
Eastern Washington University
Cheney, WA 99004
509 / 359-2812

EDUCATION

Ph.D., English, 1985, Penn State
M.A., English, 1980, Western Washington University
B.A., English (cum laude), 1978, Western Washington University

TEACHING

Eastern Washington University, professor of English, 1994 to present
University of Idaho, visiting assistant professor, 1990 to 1994
Western Washington University, lecturer, 1987 to 1990
Idaho State University, lecturer, 1984 to 1987

RECOGNITION

Michael Chappell River Hero Award, Spokane Riverkeeper, 2018
Northwest Passages appearance for The Spokane River, 2018
Top 10 Professors, Eastern Washington University, 2014
Washington State Book Award for Biography/Memoir, 2012
Nominated for Pushcart Prizes and John Burroughs Essay Award by Southern Review, Terrain.org, Encircle Books, and Louisiana State
Hilliard Endowment in the Humanities Annual Address, University of Nevada-Reno, 2010
1st and 2nd place, Energy & Environmental Reporting, Society of Professional Journalists, Inland Northwest Chapter, 2000
Printed ten times since 1986 in Sewanee Review, the oldest continuously published literary quarterly in the U.S.
Winner of the 1984 Leonard Steinberg Memorial Prize, Academy of American Poets

GRANTS

Northwest Institute for Advanced Study, 2001-2005, 2007, 2010, 2015, 2018, 2021.
Book development grants from Columbia Institute, Community Building Foundation, and Smith-Barbieri Progressive Fund, 2018.

BOOKS

Interrogating Travel: Guidance from a Reluctant Tourist. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2023.
Making Landfall: Poems. Farmington, Maine: Encircle Publications, 2018.
The Spokane River (edited, co-written, and introduced). Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2018.
Explorations in Ecocriticism: Advocacy, Bioregionalism, and Visual Design. Lanham, Maryland: Lexington, 2015.
In Earshot of Water: Notes from the Columbia Plateau. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2011.
The Canoe and the Saddle: A Critical Edition. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2006.
Holding Common Ground: The Individual and Public Lands in the American West. Introduction and edited with Derrick Knowles. Spokane: Eastern Washington University Press, 2005.
History and Folklore of the Cowichan Indians (1901, edited and introduced) Spokane: Marquette Books, 2004.
Cascadia Wild: Protecting an International Ecosystem. Ed. w/ Mitch Friedman. Bellingham: Greater Ecosystem Alliance, 1993.
John Josselyn, Colonial Traveler. Hanover, New Hampshire: University Press of New England, 1988.

BOOK ARTICLES

“The World Sings ‘Hallelujah’.” Ethnic and Cultural Identity in Music and Song Lyrics. Eds. Victor Kennedy and Michelle Gadpaille. Newcastle Upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars, 2017. 107-17. Coauthored with English graduate student Katie J. Peterson.
Reprint: “Introduction to The Canoe and the Saddle: A Critical Edition.” Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism. Vol. 210. Ed. Kathy D. Darrow. Detroit: Gale-Cenage, 2009. 336-43.
“Theodore Winthrop (Sept. 22, 1828 – June 10, 1861).” Early American Nature Writers: A Biographical Encyclopedia. Ed. Daniel Patterson. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2008. 394-99.
“The Contested Grounds of Rodeo.” Americana: Readings in Popular Culture. Ed. Leslie Wilson. Hollywood: Press Americana, 2006. 232-41.
“An Iconography of American Sabotage.” Nature et Progres: Interactions, Exclusions et Mutations. Ed. Pierre Lagayette. Paris: Presses de Universitaires, Paris Sorbonne, 2006. 151-68.
“Literary Activism and the Bioregional Agenda.” The First Decade of Ecocriticism from ISLE: Charting the Edges. Ed. Michael P. Branch and Scott Slovic. Athens: University of Georgia P, 2003.
“Restoring Bioregions Through Applied Composition.” Ecocomposition: Theoretical and Pedagogical Approaches. Ed. Christian Weisser and Sidney Dobrin. Albany: State U of New York P, 2001. 235-52.
“Considering the Canon: American Nature Writing and the ‘Wise-Use’ Movement.”Western Futures. Ed. Stephen Tchudi for the Nevada Humanities Committee. Reno: U of Nevada P, 2000. 159-83.
“Rage Against the Machine: Edward Abbey and Neo-Luddite Thought.” Coyote in the Maze: Tracking Edward Abbey in a World of Words. Ed. Peter Quigley. Salt Lake City: U of Utah P, 1998. 106-118.
“Early American Natural Histories.” Literature of Nature: An International Sourcebook. Ed. Patrick D. Murphy. Chicago & London: Fitzroy Dearborn, 1998. 13-17.
“The Significance of the Colonial Promotion Tract.” Early American Literature and Culture. London and Toronto: Associated University Presses, 1992. 57-72.

SCHOLARLY ARTICLES

“When Aldous Huxley Dropped Acid,” JSTOR Daily, Sept. 11, 2024.
“Pictorial Activism and the Rewilding of Rivers.” Green Theory and Praxis 10.1 (2017).
“The Gouges and Scours of Primordial Time.” Trumpeter Journal of Ecosophy 32 (2017).
“Antidotes to Humanism.” Trumpeter Journal of Ecosophy 29.1 (2012).
“From Sublimity to Ecopornography: Assessing the Bureau of Reclamation Art Collection.” Journal of Ecocriticism 1.1 (Jan. 2009): 1-25.
“Theodore Winthrop in the Washington Territory.” Columbia Magazine 21.1 (Spring 2007): 5-12.
“West of Winthrop: Language and Landscape in the Washington Territory.” American Transcendental Quarterly, 18.3 (Sept. 2004): 155-77.
“Greening the Dramatic Canon: Henrik Ibsen’s An Enemy of the People.” Interdisciplinary Literary Studies 3.1 (Fall 2001): 53-65.
“Communication Arts and Advocacy: An Interview with Erik Ryberg.” International Journal of Communication 10.1 (Jan.-Dec. 2000): 140-57.
“Listening Critically, Thinking Lyrically: Music and Language in the Classroom.” Exercise Exchange 45.2 (Spring 2000): 27-30.
“Writing from a Sense of Place.” Journal of Environmental Education 30.4 (Summer 1999): 4-10.
“The Grammar of Expletive Constructions.” California English 3.3 (Spring 1998): 20-21.
“Counterscience and Conservation.” Skeptic Magazine 5.1 (Spring 1997): 64-70.
“The Poetry of Meditation.” Exercise Exchange 41.1 (Fall 1995): 5-8.
“Literary Activism and the Bioregional Agenda.” ISLE 3.2 (Fall 1996): 121-137.
“Evolution and the Gaia Hypothesis.” American Nature Writing Newsletter 6 (Spring 1994): 10.
“Images of White Supremacy.” Northwest Review 31.2 (Spring 1993): 131-143.
“Range Wars: The Environmental Impacts of Livestock Grazing on Public Rangelands in the West.” Green Library Journal 1.3 (Fall 1992): 33-45.
“Ecosystem and Information Management for Native Diversity.” Green Library Journal 1.1 (Winter 1992): 38-43.
“Pragmatism and ‘The Beast in the Jungle’.” Studies in Short Fiction 25.3 (Summer 1988): 275-284.
“Isaac McCaslin and the Burden of Influence” [on William Faulkner]. University of Mississippi Studies in English 5 (1987): 172-181.
“Ernest Hemingway’s ‘Summer People’: More Textual Errors and a Reply.” Studies in Short Fiction 20.4 (Fall 1983): 319-320.
“Richard Hugo’s Language: The Poem as ‘Obsessive Musical Deed’.” Concerning Poetry 16 (Fall 1983): 67-75.

LITERARY NONFICTION

“Pieces of World,“ Idaho Magazine 23.2 (November 2023): 49-53.
“Swaddled in Rose Silk.” Tampa Review 57 (2019): 98-103.
“Survivor Tree.” Seneca Review 49.1 (2019): 46-53.
“Making Landfall,” John Burroughs Essay Award nominee, Terrain.org., Aug 5. 2019.
“Hawk Watching.” Kenyon Review 40.3 (May/June 2018): 64-70.
“My Climate Change.” Crab Orchard Review, February 2018: 279-85.
“The Security of Dirt.” The Smart Set, Feb. 19, 2018.
“The Inflatable Museum,” Pushcart Prize nominee, Southern Review 53.2 (Spring 2017): 319-331.
“White River,” Spokesman-Review July 16, 2017.
“Shrub Steppe, Pothole, Ponderosa Pine.” Numero Cinq (Aug. 2017).
“Broncos in the Salon.” Cargo Literary Magazine July 2017.
“The Trumpets of Solitude.” Terrain.org 35 (Apr. 2015).
“Shooters and the Tools They Use.” Sewanee Review 122(4):625-632.
“Genius Loci.” Sewanee Review 118.1 (Winter 2010): 46-57.
“Magpie in the Window.” Memoir 2.2 (Fall-Winter 2009): 32-36.
“Living the Land.” Weber Studies 19.3 (Spring-Summer 2002): 88-94.
“In the Shadow of the Government’s Blind Eye.” Organization and Environment 14.3 (September 2001): 344-55. (Reprinted in Literature and the Environment.) 2^nd ed. Ed. Lorraine Anderson, Scott Slovic, and John O’Grady. Boston: Pearson, 2013.
“The Spray and the Slamming Sea.” On Nature: Great Writers on the Great Outdoors (New York: Putnam Penguin, 2002): 149-59.
“Hunting Technology.” Exquisite Corpse 9 (2001).
“High Country.” Brevity 8.2 (Fall 2000).

REVIEW ESSAYS

“A Braided Stream: On Keats Conley’s Guidance from the God of Seahorses.” Poetry Northwest (Dec. 30, 2022).
“Ecological Criticism Today.” Sewanee Review 110.1 (Winter 2002): 169-74.
“Luddism and Its Discontents.” American Quarterly 49.4 (Fall 1997): 866-73.
“Talking about the Land.” Sewanee Review 103.4 (Fall 1995): 621-25.
“Animal Energies and Tribal Rhythms.” Sewanee Review 101.2 (Spring 1993): 269-277.
“Early American Culture and the Canon.” Sewanee Review 100.4 (Fall 1992): 675-83.
“Crimes of Gender in Puritan America.” American Quarterly 40.4 (Winter 1988): 563-568.
“Iconoclasm as a Puritan Art.” Sewanee Review 96.3 (Summer 1988): 464-468.

POETRY

“The Birds Gave Way, Vancouver Poetry Magazine, Sept. 15, 2024.
“Ode on a Granite Slab.” I Sing the Salmon Home. Ed. Rena Priest (Chimacum, WA: Empty Bowl Press 2023), p. 226.
“Directive” and “Brown Recluse.” Revista Interdisciplinar de Literatura e Ecocritica: ASLE Brasil (2022).
“A Tsunamic Hurricane,” “The Rhetorician’s Funeral,” “Ubi Sunt,” “Centuries Inland,” and “Artifact.” Early American Literature 54.3 (Fall 2019): 615-19.
“Malad,” “Yeoman,” and “Crossing Arbon Valley.” Poetry Northwest 8.2 (Fall-Winter 2013-14): 18-19.
“Brooding Season.” Entanglements: Ecopoems. Uig, Scotland: Two Ravens, 2012.
“Giving Voices,” “Sarah Hawkridge,” “American Triptych,” Mary Dyer,” and “The Great Awakening.” Common-place: The Journal of Early American Life 6.2 (Jan. 2006). American Antiquarian Society.
“The Fox” and “Captives of the County Fair.” ISLE 8.2 (Summer 2001): 257-58.
“Hawk Hunting” and “From the Air.” Organization and Environment 10.2 (Summer 1997): 184.
“My Evil Twin.” A.” merican Literary Review 6.1 (Spring 1995): 26.
“Magistrate.” Southern Humanities Review 28 (Summer 1994): 278-279.
“Another Wild,” “Cotton Mather,” Here and Now,” “Rebecca Glover.” Chicago Review 40.1 (Winter 1994): 26-31.
“Barnyard Artist.” Poet Lore 86 (Summer 1991): 27-28.
“The Glare of Her Awareness,” “Marianne’s Quarters,” “Cotton Mather.” Fugue 2 (Spring 1991): 10, 20, 34.
“Kit Gardiner, Banished,” “Inscription,” “Promoter of the Colonies.” Sewanee Review 97 (Fall 1989): 23-27.
“Brood Slave.” Beloit Poetry Journal 37 (Spring 1987): 5-6.
“Traveler to the Colonies.” Sewanee Review 94 (Winter 1986): 1-3.
“Mount Taenum” and “Letter to Huff from Bellefonte, PA.” Ohio Journal 8 (Winter 1984-85): 11.
“Ouzel.” Southern Humanities Review 17 (Winter 1983): 32.
“The Plumed Clod.” “Ptarmigan,” and “Shrike.” Antigonish Review 55 (Fall 1983): 65-68.
“Song of a Lapsed Vegetarian.” Bellingham Review 6 (Fall 1983): 19.

BOOK REVIEWS

On the Trail of the Jackalope, by Michael Branch, Nevada Historical Society Quarterly 63 (2022): 124-26.
Savage West: The Life and Fiction of Thomas Savage, by Alan Weltzien, Western American Literature 56.1 (Spring 2021): 87-89.
How to Cuss in Western, by Michael Branch, in Western American Literature 54.1 (Spring 2019): 94-96.
Subtle Thieves, by Ron McFarland, in Poetry Northwest June 13, 2013.
Anatomy of Melancholy, by Robert Wrigley, in Poetry Northwest Feb. 18, 2014.
Loving Nature, Fearing the State: Environmentalism and Antigovernment Politics before Reagan, by Brian Allen Drake, in Pacific Northwest Quarterly 105.1 (Winter 2013-14): 41-2.
When the Killing’s Done, by T. C. Boyle, in ISLE 18.4 (Autumn 2011): 881-2.
Atomic Farmgirl, by Teri Hein, in ISLE 11.1 (Winter 2004): 263-4.
Standing Up to the Rock, by T. Louise Freeman-Toole, in Nature in Legend and Story 1.2 (Spring 2002): 30.
A Language Older than Words, by Derrick Jensen, in ISLE 8.2 (Summer 2001): 276-78.
Science Under Siege: The Politicians’ War on Nature and Truth, by Todd Wilkinson, in ISLE: 6.2 (1999): 227.
Wild to the Last: Environmental Conflict in the Clearwater Country, by Charles Pezeshki, in Wild Earth 8.3 (Fall 1998): 99-100.
Betrayal of Science and Reason: How Anti-Environmental Rhetoric Threatens Our Future, by Paul R. Ehrlich & Anne H. Ehrlich, and This Land Is Our Land: How to End the War on Private Property, by Congressman Richard Pombo and Joseph Farah, in ISLE 5.1 (Winter 1998): 147-49.
Greening the College Curriculum: A Guide to Environmental Teaching in the Liberal Arts, ed. Jonathan Collett and Stephen Karakashian, in ISLE (1997).
Farmers and Fishermen: Two Centuries of Work in Essex County, Massachusetts, 1630-1850, by Daniel Vickers, in Seventeenth-Century News 54 (Spring-Summer 1996): 35-36.
Eco-Warriors: Understanding the Radical Environmental Movement, by Rik Scarce, and The War Against Gravity, by Kristine Rosemary, in Redneck Review of Literature 19 (Fall 1994): 102-104.
Waste of the West: Public Lands Ranching, by Lynn Jacobs, and Beyond Beef: The Rise and Fall of the Cattle Culture, by Jeremy Rifkin, in Redneck Review of Literature 18 (Fall 1993): 88-92.
The Formation of a Society on Virginia’s Eastern Shore, 1615-1655, by James R. Perry, in Seventeenth-Century News 50 (Spring-Summer 1992): 11.
Anne Bradstreet: A Reference Guide, by Raymond F. Dolle, in Seventeenth-Century News 50 (Spring-Summer 1992): 11-12.
North Carolina Through Four Centuries, by William S. Powell, in Seventeenth-Century News 49 (Spring-Summer 1991): 20-21.
Technical Writing: A Reader-Centered Approach, by Paul V. Anderson, in College Composition and Communication 39 (December 1988): 484-485.
Wilderness Lost: The Religious Origins of the American Mind, by David R. Williams, in American Literature 60 (May 1988): 291-293.
Local Assays on Contemporary American Poetry, by Dave Smith, in Southern Humanities Review 21 (Winter 1987): 94-95.
Tobacco and Slaves: The Development of Southern Cultures in the Chesapeake, by Allan Kulikoff, in Seventeenth-Century News 45 (Fall 1987): 49-50.
Puritan Poetry and Poetics: Seventeenth-Century American Poetry in Theory and Practice, ed. Peter White, in Concerning Poetry 20 (1987): 130-132.
An American Triptych: Anne Bradstreet, Emily Dickinson, Adrienne Rich, by Wendy Martin, in Concerning Poetry 19 (1986): 148-151.
American Writers Before 1800: A Biographical and Critical Dictionary, 3 Vols., in Seventeenth-Century News 43 (1985): 18.
We Are Called Human: The Poetry of Richard Hugo, by Michael S. Allen; and A Trout in the Milk: A Composite Portrait of Richard Hugo, ed. Jack Myers, in Southern Humanities Review 19 (Winter 1985): 81-82.
“With Bodilie Eyes”: Eschatological Themes in Puritan Literature and Gravestone Art, by David H. Watters, in Seventeenth-Century News 42 (1984): 18-19.

SCHOLARLY PRESENTATIONS

“Thinking Like a River,” Ecopoetics Perpignan colloquium, Perpignan, France, June 23, 2016.
“Paddling Lake Missoula,” Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE), Moscow, ID, June 24, 2015,
“Reassessing Edward Curtis and a Warrior’s Portrait.” Pacific Northwest American Studies Association (PNASA). Ellensburg, WA, April 19, 2014.
“Ekphrasis and William Carlos Williams’ Aesthetic.” PNASA. Seattle, WA, April 19, 2013.
“Occupying BC: Social Protest and the ‘Sons of Freedom’ Doukhobors.”PNASA, Ellensburg, WA, April 14, 2012.
“Ecologize This: Semantic Noise in Environmental Discourse.”PNASA, Walla Walla, WA, April 11, 2008.
“Government Greenwash: The Bureau of Reclamation Fine Arts Collection.” PNASA, Spokane, Washington, April 21, 2006.
“Three Coyotes.” Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association (RMMLA). Coeur d’Alene, Idaho. Oct. 22, 2005.
“Ecoporn on the Oregon Trail.” ASLE, Eugene, Oregon. June 22, 2005.
“The Contested Grounds of North American Rodeo.” Center for Western U.S. and Asia/Pacific Studies. University of Paris-Sorbonne, France. Nov. 12, 2004.
“Counter-Environmentalism: How Wise Is the Wise-Use Movement?” PNASA, Warm Springs, Oregon. April 10, 2004.
“Environmental Literature as Antidote to Humanism.” PNASA, Lincoln City, Oregon. April 11, 2003.
“An Iconography of Sabotage.” Center for Western U.S. and Asia / Pacific Studies. University of Paris Sorbonne, France. November 8, 2002.
“Living the Land.” ASLE, Flagstaff, Arizona. June 20, 2001.
“Interpretive Ecology in Early American Literature.” RMMLA, Boise. Oct. 14, 2000.
“Nature’s Sales Pitch.” American Culture Association / Pop Culture Association Conference, New Orleans, Louisiana. April 19-20, 2000.
“The Anti-U.N. Bias of American Militias.” Northwest International Education Association Conference, Seattle. April 24, 1999.
“Personalizing Geographies.” Conference on College Composition and Communication, Atlanta, Georgia. March 25, 1999.
“Devouring the Prairies: Washington Irving on a Tour of the Great Plains.” PNASA, Coeur d’Alene, Idaho. April 10, 1998.
“Ecological Sustainability in Early American Natural Histories” and “Rage Against the Machine: Edward Abbey as Neo-Luddite.” ASLE, Missoula, Montana. July 17 & 19, 1997.
“Wise Use and Western Literature.” Western Literature Association, Vancouver, BC, 12 October 1995.
“Ecocriticism Emerging: The Bioregional Agenda.” ASLE, Fort Collins, Colorado. June 9, 1995; panelist, Politics/Advocacy in Literature and Environment.
“What’s It Mean to Be Green? Putting Ideas into Action.” National Council of Teachers of English, Spokane, Washington. April 2, 1995.
“Mellowing the Movement: Radical Environmentalism in the American West.” PNASA, Bend, Oregon. April 2, 1993.
“Apostrophes to Malcontents: Discovery Rhetoric in British North America.” Christianity and Literature Association, Seattle. May 2, 1992.
“Community Enrichment through Co-Housing” and “Individuality and Community: The Model of Northern Exposure.” PNASA, Seattle, April 2-3, 1992.
“Racism, Surrealism, and the Murder of Alan Berg.” PNASA, Coeur d’Alene, Idaho. April 12, 1991.
“Poetries of Meditation.” RMMLA, Spokane. October 15, 1987.
“The Value of the Negative Example.” RMMLA, Denver, October 16, 1986.
“Rhetorical Patterns in the Colonial Promotion Tract.” RMMLA, Provo, Utah. October 19, 1985.

SERVICE

Academic Appeals Board member, March 2024 to present
Featured poet at Foray in the Arts, June 26, 2024.
Featured poet at Spokane Central Library for the book I Sing the Salmon Home, Aug. 17, 2023
Peer reviewer, Western Journal of Communication, 2023
Friends of Palisades Board member, Palisades Park, Spokane, Feb. 23, 2023 to Feb. 23, 2025
Citizens Advisory Committee, Spokane Parks and Recreation Department, January 2023 to present
Poetry Moment, Spokane Public Radio, April 3, 2023
Eastern Washington University Honors Advisory Board, EWU, 2002-05, 2022-25
Clawson-Youngs Award Committee, Eastern Washington University, 2022-23
Master of Ceremonies, Spoken River, annual fundraiser for the Spokane Riverkeeper, Hamilton Studio, Spokane, Oct. 28, 2022
Blurbs for books by Lisa Langelier (The Wild Eye), 2016 + O. Alan Weltzien (Through the Basement of Time) (2022), Sarah Conover (Set Adrift), Ammi Midstokke (All the Things), and Georgia Tiffany (Body Be Sound), 2023
Guest Speaker, Unitarian Universalist Church Spokane: “What Is Poetry Good For?” Feb. 6, 2022, “Making Landfall”; Feb. 9, 2020, “Taken by the Sea,” Sept. 24, 2023;
Editorial Board Member, Waterscape Book Series, University of Nevada Press, 2019-present
Narrative Co-Editor, Trumpeter Journal of Ecosophy, 2019 to present
Board Member/Peer Reviewer variously: European Journal of American Studies; Clio: A Journal of Literature, History, and the Philosophy of History; Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature
External Program Reviewer, University of Idaho English Department, Sept. 10-12, 2017.
Organizer of Pre-conference Seminar on Bioregionalism: Theory, Practice, and Pedagogy, Association for the Study of Literature and Environment, June 22, 2015.
Contributing Historian, HistoryLink, online encyclopedia of Washington State history, 2012-present. HistoryLink is the first and largest encyclopedia of community history created expressly for the Internet. Free to the public, the encyclopedia enjoys some 6,000 visitors per day.
Columnist, Writers on the Range, op-ed syndicate of High Country News, variously 1997 to present.
Outside reviewer for tenure at English Departments of the University of Idaho and Washington State University, 2014
EWU Library Affairs Council member 2013-2019, Co-Chair, 2014-2016
Search Committee Member, Executive Directorship, eLearning and Off-Campus Programs, 2012
Search Committee Member, Library Deanship, 2009-10
English Department Personnel Committee, 2003-06; Chair, 2004-06, 2010-12
Editorial Board Member, Journal of Ecocriticism, 2010-19
Editorial Board Member, Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, 1996-2010
Northwest Fund for the Environment Trustee, 2005-2007
Eastern Environmental (ASEWU student club), Advisor / Founder, 1997-2007
Get Lit! Humanities Advisor / Presenter / Moderator, variously since 2004
McNair Scholars Program, Faculty Mentor, 1998, 2000, 2001-02
Research and Creative Works Symposium, Mentor, 2001-present
Eastern Dialogues Committee member, 2000-01; Chair, 2001-2002
Executive Committee, Sierra Club, Upper Columbia River Group, 1997-2005; Committee Chair, 1997-2000
Columnist, Board of Contributors, Spokesman-Review, Spokane, WA, 1996-2000

REPORTED OPINION PIECES

“The Green-Minded Traveler,” Inlander, June 29, 2023.
“Nomads of the Sea,” Spokesman-Review Aug. 12, 2022.
“The Power of Prose behind Oscar Frontrunner ‘The Power of the Dog’,” Spokesman-Review March 24, 2022.
“Online learning has become integral to education,” Spokesman-Review Oct. 27, 2021.
“Wildfires signal climate in calamity.” Spokesman-Review June 5, 2019.
“Free Speech Has No Room for Espousing Hatred.” Spokesman-Review Mar. 29, 2018.
“Free-flowing rivers are essential to our region’s health.” Spokesman-Review Feb. 10, 2018.
“Education’s Goal: Build Inquisitive Minds.” Spokesman-Review Mar. 31, 2017.
“Kick Cows off Refuge Lands.” Spokesman-Review Feb. 7, 2016.
“Washington’s Long Summer of Fire and Smoke.” High Country News Oct. 29, 2015. Syndicated nationally.
“Paddling Lake Missoula.” Spokesman-Review Aug. 2, 2015.
“’Shooters’ Spoiling the Sport of Hunting.” Spokesman-Review Apr. 3, 2014.
“Portrait of Yakama Indian Lokout Adds to History of Brother Qualchan.” Spokesman-Review Dec. 1, 2013.
“Washington wipes out a wolf pack.” High Country News Nov. 21, 2012. Syndicated nationally.
“Give state’s wolf plan a chance.” Spokesman-Review September 8, 2012.
“Restoring faith in salmon and dams.” Spokesman-Review May 5, 2012: B9.
“The Blacksmith.” Portland Monthly Jan. 2012: 68-9.
“Attention imperative to enter this club.” Spokesman-Review Dec. 10, 2011: B3.
“Lake Roosevelt belongs to all of us.” Spokesman-Review July 2, 2011: A13.
“Hunting season and the return of the ethically challenged.” Oregonian Nov. 18, 2010: online.
“Sickened and radicalized.” Spokesman-Review July 3, 2010: B5.
“The Fine Art of Bureaucracy.” High Country News Jan. 14, 2009.
“From S.W.A.T. team to elk hunt.” Out There Monthly Nov. 26, 2006: 26.
“Invasion of the pod snatchers.” Pacific Northwest Inlander July 20, 2006: 50.
“From pristine sources.” Spokesman-Review Oct. 17, 2004: H2.
“Call of the wild.” Pacific Northwest Inlander Aug. 5, 2004: 9.
“Wise-use wedges.” Pacific Northwest Inlander Mar. 4, 2004: 9.
“The sterile valley’s legacy.” Alternet July 30, 2001.
“Death penalty delusions.” Pacific Northwest Inlander June 21, 2001: 5.
“Second nature.” The Local Planet Sept. 21, 2000: 15-18. Winner, Society of Professional Journalists Award, Inland Northwest Chapter, Second Place, Energy and Environmental Reporting.
“Spawning dollars: The Snake River and the politics of loss.” The Local Planet March 16, 2000: 12-16. Winner, Society of Professional Journalists Award, First Place, Inland Northwest Chapter, Energy and Environmental Reporting.
“Help create a cleaner, greener, sustainable future.” Spokesman-Review Dec. 24, 2000: B7.
“The future of hunting.” The Local Planet Oct. 26, 2000: 4.
“Adage holds true: good things come to those who wait.” Spokesman-Review Sept. 24, 2000: B9.
“’Language’ looks at dark side of human nature.” Spokesman-Review 21 May 2000: F6.
“Healthy choices.” Pacific Northwest Inlander Jan. 26, 2000: 4.
“Close Range.” Pacific Northwest Inlander Jan. 12, 2000: 9 -10.
“Fighting the WTO.” Pacific Northwest Inlander Nov. 10, 1999: 4.
“Shaking up can lead to engagement and real learning.” Spokesman-Review Oct. 24, 1999: B10.
“Something to encourage the heart and nourish the soul.” Spokesman-Review Aug. 29, 1999: B11.
Salmon’s lesson.” Pacific Northwest Inlander May 26, 1999: 4.
“Dam nation.” Pacific Northwest Inlander Sept. 2: B4.
“Kempthorne sees enabling poachers as a state’s right.” Spokesman-Review Aug. 16, 1998: B9.
“Ranching rip-off.” Pacific Northwest Inlander Aug. 5, 1998: 4
“Mark of the grizzly.” Pacific Northwest Inlander July 8, 1998: 12.
“SUV silliness.” Pacific Northwest Inlander June 17, 1998: 4.
“Anguished cry from a wilderness under siege.” Spokesman-Review May 31, 1998: B9.
“Science for sale.” Pacific Northwest Inlander May 13, 1998: 4.
“Technology’s mirage.” Pacific Northwest Inlander March 11, 1998: 4.
“Facing the meatless masses.” Pacific Northwest Inlander April 8, 1998: 39.
“Spokane’s image lost in a haze of smoke and politics.” Spokesman-Review April 5, 1998: B11.
“A wake-up call for xenophobes, a revival for the avaricious.” Spokesman-Review Dec. 7, 1997: B9.
“Measure nature’s ruin in terms of cc’s, rpm and decibels.” Spokesman-Review Oct. 5, 1997: B11.
“Your next meal needn’t come as a toxic shock.” Spokesman-Review July 27, 1997: B7.
“It takes a worried man to sing a worried song.” Spokesman-Review June 8, 1997: B7.
“Cleansing fire, not salvage logging, is the better way.” Spokesman-Review 6 April 1997: B11.
“Fact or fiction? Making sense of the environmental debate.” Pacific Northwest Inlander April 9-15: 11.
“You deserve a break today – from chemicals, fats, salts.” Spokesman-Review 9 Feb. 1997: B13.
“Dreaming of a new west.” Pacific Northwest Inlander Jan, 9 1997: 4.
“Preserving nature’s integrity a legacy and labor of love.” Spokesman-Review 22 Sept. 1996: B9.
“Weapons of choice: lies, distortions and ‘counterscience’.” Spokesman-Review 4 Aug. 1996: B7.
“Surely, there must be some limit as to what is sport.” Spokesman-Review 31 March 1996: B7.
“Keep Idaho Wild.” Pacific Northwest Inlander 8 Nov. 1995: 4.
“Abe Lincoln and the Field of Stumps.” Cascadia Times 1.5 (Aug. 1995): 18.
“Wise Use Joins the Militia.” Cascadia Times 1.3 (June 1995): 1, 10-13.
“Organic Farming and the Palouse.” Pacific Northwest Inlander Feb. 28, 1995: 4.
“Change on the Range.” Pacific Northwest Magazine Oct. 1991: 9, 11-12.