Recent Journalism
How Being a Good Neighbor in Greater Yellowstone Got Harder
News/Feature | Mountain Journal | July 2025
With NPS staff employment down since January, land managers are finding it more difficult to educate parkgoers about the importance of human-wildlife interactions. The responsibility is increasingly falling on visitors.
How Wyoming Sought to Stave off Wolf Torture
News/Dispatch | Mountain Journal | April 2025
The novel Once There Were Wolves is set in the remote Highlands of Scotland, where it’s greener and rains much more than in Greater Yellowstone, but contains a wild, rugged heart similar to Wyoming’s wilderness. Author Charlotte McConaghy centered the 2021 book’s plot on a biologist attempting to reintroduce gray wolves to Cairngorms National Park amid the agricultural tradition of sheep farming. When a farmer is found dead, the wolves are to blame.
In many ways, Once There Were Wolves echoes the American West’s decades-long relationship with wolves and other predatory species like coyotes and foxes, and their management—where efforts to maintain wildlife habitats and populations intersect with demons of the past.
Whitebark Pine: An Education in Trees
News/Feature | Mountain Journal | April 2025
Mountain ski guides frequent the high alpine where whitebark pine grows. Two are educating others on the power and grace of this endangered tree.
In Response to 2024 Wolf Torture, Killing, Wyoming Seeks to Write New Chapter
News/Dispatch | Mountain Journal | February 2025
Last winter, the world seemed to train its collective attention on Wyoming and its wildlife. But that attention wasn’t focused on a majestic, fog-scarfed mountain valley traversed by migrating ungulates. It was something far more gruesome.
Shacks on Racks
Reports | Mountain Outlaw | December 2021
Amid a looming housing crisis, Shacks on Racks turns trash into treasure.
Rising Tides
Outlook | Mountain Outlaw | December 2020
How Wyoming Rivers Cooperative is guiding clients down rivers of adventure and awareness.
The Dam Dichotomy
Reports | Mountain Outlaw | July 2020
“It is an odd dichotomy we have set for ourselves, between loving people and loving land.” – Robin Wall Kimmerer
In the 1930s, the Pacific Northwest’s Columbia River Basin was considered one of the country’s greatest assets. As a watershed that spans seven states and part of British Columbia, the U.S. Army Corp of Engineers proposed a project they said would harness its full potential for Western residents.
Poetry Publications
A strong enough feeling | Pilgrimage | Volume 44, Issue 1 & 2, 2023
To be seen | Gleam | Issue 6 | 2023
Grounded | Cream City Review | Volume 47, Issue 2, 2024
Delicate tundra | Deep Wild Journal | Volume 6, 2024
How to get to the sky | Willawaw Journal | Issue 18, 2024
Aegis | NELLE | Issue 8, 2025
I want my heart to be | NELLE | Issue 8, 2025
Grand Gulch | Crab Creek Review | Volume 1, 2025
Wild | Crab Creek Review | Volume 1, 2025
Bull-of-the-Woods | The Fourth River | Spring 2025
In search of Otho Natural Bridge | Red Rock Review | forthcoming
Magnetic North | Red Rock Review | forthcoming
Closed form etudes | Zone 3 | forthcoming
Aeolus | Talking River Review | forthcoming
A brief streak of light | Talking River Review | forthcoming