Work
Throughout the Years
COLORADO POWDER KEG:
Ski Resorts and the Environmental Movement
...traces the rise of Colorado's ski industry alongside that of the burgeoning environmental movement, which sprang up in opposition to rampant commercial development of national forests by resort developers. By explaining how ski resorts embodied outdoor recreation’s growing importance within national forests, and the US Forest Service’s struggles in balancing the public’s demand for skiing with criticisms of the ski industry’s negative environmental impacts, Colorado Powder Keg explores the costs of recreational development on the West’s public lands.
Print Length: 248 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Publication Date: October 2, 2012
THE MOUNTAINS ARE CALLING:
Tourists and the Unmaking of Yosemite National Park
The Mountains Are Calling places visitors at the center of Yosemite’s story, examining how their perceptions and experiences have shaped understandings of national parks and nature itself. In doing so, explains how visitors grew into the largest threat to the park’s natural environment. Yosemite National Park draws more than four million visitors annually — a figure that reflects both its immense popularity and its limits. That number brings real costs from air and noise pollution, to habitat destruction and overrun campgrounds. In foregrounding visitors lived experiences — alongside those of Indigenous people, innkeepers, soldiers, rangers, climbers, concessioners, and administrators — The Mountains Are Calling tells a fuller history of Yosemite and reckons honestly with tourism's environmental costs.
Print Length: 300 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Publication Date: July 1, 2026
Part of Series: Environment and Region in the American West