Selected Talks, Events, and Appearances:

• Featured Speaker with Ambassadors Tom Udall, Ken Salazar, and former Cochiti Pueblo Governor Regis Pecos. Stand Up For Nature, Annual Fundraising Celebration for Santa Fe Conservation Trust, October 2025.

• “Protecting Public Lands,” Petroglyph National Monument Author Series, October 2025.

• “Water and People in the Great Basin: Histories of Four Terminal Lakes,” Comment for Western History Association Conference Panel, Albuquerque, NM, October 2025.

• "Our Enduring Legacy: The True Value of Public Lands," Ridgway Ouray (Colorado) Community Council Annual Dinner (ROCC), June 2025.

• “The State of Wildlife in the West” Panelist, Mountain Words Book Festival, Crested Butte, CO. May 2025

• Discussant with Kyle Paoletta for American Oasis book event, Collected Works Bookstore, Santa Fe, NM January 2025.

• “The Past, Present, and Future West,” Weber Historical Society, April 2024.

• Invited Panelist, Tucson Festival of Books, March 2024.

• Mother Earth Father Sky Lecture Series, “Finding the Future in the Last Frontier,” Southwest Seminars, Santa Fe, NM.

• Seminar, “Finding the Future in the Last Frontier,” Smithsonian Associates (the largest museum-based education program in the world).

• Panelist, “The American Buffalo” Ken Burns documentary film screening with producer Julie Dunfey, New Mexico PBS, Albuquerque.

• Invited Discussant, “Jews of the Wild West” documentary film panel with director Amanda Kinsey, Museums at Union Station.

• Invited Keynote/Mentor Faculty, “Understanding the Public Lands, Senator Frank Church, and Bioregionalism,” Idaho Teacher Institute Week-long Summer Conference, Moscow, ID.

• Invited Presentation, “A River Runs Through It: A 19th Century History of the Log and Tie Economy of the Intermountain West,” Utah Valley Historical Society.

• Invited Presenter for "The History of History" - "Fredrick Jackson Turner Thesis and the Historiography of the American West" for Social Science Education Center (SSEC) Seminar for Teachers, Weber State University.

• Keynote, “Saving the Sawtooths: Creating Conservation Consensus in Idaho,” 2022 Environmental Conference - The Sawtooth NRA at 50: Our Legacy and Future Challenges, Andrus Center for Public Policy, Boise State University.

• “The View From the Top: Climate Change in the West and the World,” Fettuccine Forum, Boise City Department of Arts and History.

• “The West at the Vanguard: Hope for the Future,” presentation for the Worldwide Climate/Justice Teach-In, Weber State University.

• Panel Chair, “Environmental Histories,” Phi Alpha Theta Regional Conference.

• Invited Panelist, “Thomas Alexander and Environmental Stewardship in the American West” Western History Association Annual Conference.

• Presenter for “Books that Changed History” - Silent Spring for Social Science Education Center Seminar for Teachers, Weber State University.

• Presenter for Social Science Education Center Seminar for Teachers, “World War II, Chemicals, and Rachel Carson: Finding Balance in Post-War America,” Weber State University.

• Panel Chair and Comment, “Transnational Borders and Nature in the West,” Western History Association Annual Conference.

• Invited Discussion, “On Doing Environmental History of the American West,” The Wolfe Institute, City University of New York - Brooklyn.

• Moderator, “Our Planet, Our Future,” United Nations Environmental Panel, Weber State University Student Body Leadership.

• Public Lecture, “Frank Church and the ‘New Conservation,’” Frank Church Institute, Sun Valley, ID.

• Invited Discussion Leader, The Frank Church Society, Sun Valley, ID.

• Panel Chair/Comment, “Interpretations of Federal Management and Environmentalism,” Pacific Coast Branch - American Historical Association Annual Conference.