Op Eds and Articles:
Sara Dant, "People and Nature in the American West: A Brief Deep History," History Now: The Journal Issue 76, Fall 2025.
Sara Dant, Review of The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century, by Kirk Wallace Johnson, September 28, 2025.
Sara Dant, "Voices: Why public lands should stay public and protected," Los Angeles Times, May 25, 2025, online and print edition.
Sara Dant, "Opinion: There's nothing 'unprecedented' about Trump's policies. They gave us the Great Depression a century ago," San Francisco Chronicle, April 3, 2025, online, April 6, 2025, print edition.
Sara Dant, “Opinion: Can our evolving political landscape learn a lesson from a Colorado ferret de-extinction program?,” Colorado Sun, Dec. 7, 2024.
Sara Dant and Megan Kate Nelson, “Making the Past Present – The Art and Practice of Writing the American West. A Conversation with Megan Kate Nelson,” Weber: The Contemporary West, Fall 2024, 35-44.
Sara Dant, “Thomas G. Alexander: Environmental Stewardship in the American West,” Assessing the Career of Historian Thomas G. Alexander, Jay Buckley, ed. (BYU Charles Redd Center for Western Studies, 2024), 17-23.
Dan Flores and Sara Dant, “When American Wildlife Was For Sale,” PBS.org, October 2023
Books:
Losing Eden: An Environmental History of the American West, New Edition (University of Nebraska Press, 2023). Foreword by Tom S. Udall. First Edition (John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2017).
The Encyclopedia of American National Parks (M.E. Sharpe, 2004). Co-authored with Hal K. Rothman.
Scholarly Articles and Chapters:
“Driving Utah’s Rivers: Working Water in the West,” Utah Historical Quarterly, Vol. 90, no. 2 (Spring 2022), 110-132. *Winner: Dale L. Morgan Award for best scholarly article in 2022 Utah Historical Quarterly
"The 'Lion of the Lord' and the Land: Brigham Young's Environmental Ethic," in The Earth Will Appear as the Garden of Eden: Essays in Mormon Environmental History, ed. by Jedidiah Rogers and Matthew C. Godfrey (University of Utah Press, 2019), 29-46.
"Idaho's Frank Church and the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act at 50," The Advocate, January 2019.
“Field Notes: Brigham Young’s ‘All the People’ Quote Quandary,” Western Historical Quarterly, Vol. 46, No. 2 (Summer 2015), 219-223.
“LBJ, Wilderness, and the Land and Water Conservation Fund,” Environmental History 19 (October 2014), 736-743. (Reprinted in Forest History Today Vol. 20, Nos. 1&2, Spring/Fall 2014.)
Sara Dant, “Going With the Flow: Navigating to Stream Access Consensus,” in Desert Water: The Future of Utah’s Water Resources (University of Utah Press, 2014), 144-159.
“Making Wilderness Work: Frank Church and the American Wilderness Movement,” Pacific Historical Review, Vol. 77, No. 2 (May 2008), 237-272. *Winner: The Forest History Society’s 2009 Theodore C. Blegen Award for best article in forest and conservation history.
"Bioregional Politics: The Case for Place," Oregon Historical Quarterly, Winter 2002, 439-451.
“Evolution of an Environmentalist: Senator Frank Church and the Hells Canyon Controversy,” MONTANA The Magazine of Western History, Spring 2001, 36-51. *Winner: The Forest History Society’s 2002 Theodore C. Blegen Award for best article in forest and conservation history.
"Peak Park Politics: The Struggle Over the Sawtooths, from Borah to Church" Pacific Northwest Quarterly, Summer 2000, 138-149. *Winner: Charles M. Gates Memorial Award for best article in Pacific Northwest Quarterly in 2000.