Another idiosyncratic year-end reflection

Idiosyncratic categories for diverse places

World War II and the North Cascades

Rick Ardinger's life of service to the humanities

Reports of the National Park Service

How the National Park Service united its disparate parts

E. B. White in his time and ours

The 1875 journey that inspired John Muir

"The Relicensing of the Skagit River Dams: Farmland at Risk," _Skagitonians to Preserve Farmland_ , The Dirt, November 17, 2025. The Relicensing of the Skagit River Dams: Farmland at Risk — Skagitonians to Preserve FarmlandDid you know Seattle City Light is nearing a major decision about the future of the Skagit River — one that will shape our valley for the next 30 years — without a process that is open and transparent to Skagit citizens? Negotiations about the relicensing of Seattle City Light’s three dams on the SSkagitonians to Preserve FarmlandBryony Angell

Notes on perspective from Sequoia National Park

Work changes and continues

Trying to handle disruptions

Searching for themes

The persistence of mining in national park history

Jennifer Ott and public history

The slow, incomplete protection of national park wilderness

Encountering Wounded Knee

Quick notes from the road's end

Figuring things out on the go, maybe

Historian Brenden Rensink nurtures interdisciplinarity

On the road with thoughts on national parks

Reflections from Labor Day

Steinbeck and writing from the road

Finding tufted puffins and more

The Odysseys of Caroline Tracey