Selected Publications
Farewell to two radicals with a common goal – changing the West
New Mexico Wild Presents the Inaugural Esther Garcia Conservation Champion Award to John Olivas
Lofty Heights: We were young, brown outsiders in the world of outdoor adventure. Climbing Grand Teton marked a turning point
(Winner of the 2022 Folio Award and second place in the Society of American Travel Writers competition)
The Milestone for Public Lands You’ve Never Heard of, and Why It Matters Today
The complexity of color in the environmental movement
Tribes are suffering 2 blows from COVID-19. Here’s how you can help … from afar
The man behind a New Mexico county’s fracking ban
The Courage to Make Change: A Letter to the Land Trust Movement
(with Peter Forbes and Danyelle O’Hara)
Hispanic leaders spearheaded the Río Grande del Norte National Monument
On a rainbow pilgrimage to Navajo Mountain
A short trip, but wild and scenic
It was written on the wind: Cancer takes the life of a radiation-exposed family member
Return to Sacred Places: Taos Land Trust preserves our Tierra Sagrada
The high carbon cost of la vida rural
La Vida Floresta: Ecology, Justice, and Community-Based Forestry in Northern New Mexico (see associated editorial here)
Making Environmental Justice Whole
Of Land and Culture: Environmental Justice and Public Lands Ranching in Northern New Mexico
A Subversive Synthesis of Traditional Land-Based Wisdom and Ecology
Sustaining Culture through Work: A Cowboy’s Life
Holding to the Middle Path in Ladakh: Tibetan Plateau
After a heavy harvest and a death, Navajo forestry realigns with culture
Selected “For the Land” monthly columns from The Taos News:
- Ranching and querencia: Your heart in the land, 4/25/13
- Climate change and the end of skiing, 3/28/13
- El Río Grande del Norte, 2/28/13
- Community conservation, for all the people, 12/27/12
- We are all newcomers to the land, 10/25/12
- Ponce de Leon Hot Springs transfer a game changer, 7/26/12
Published or Completed Reports
Funding Stewardship of Natural Resources in New Mexico: Findings and Background Information
(prepared as part of developing a revised grantmaking strategy for the McCune Charitable Foundation’s Stewardship of Natural Resources funding priority)
Stepping into the Food Desert
(report and recommendations commissioned by Rocky Mountain Youth Corps)
Trails for the People and Economy of Taos
(report commissioned by Rocky Mountain Youth Corps as part of the Trails del Norte project below, and similar to another report completed for the Santa Fe Conservation Trust)
Trails del Norte
(final report and trail design recommendations commissioned by Rocky Mountain Youth Corps)
Land Conservation and the Public Trust: The Case for Community Conservation
(report commissioned by the Land Trust Alliance, co-written with Peter Forbes and Danyelle O’Hara for the Center for Whole Communities)
D.H. Lawrence Ranch Feasibility Study on Developing a Conservation Easement
(prepared for the Taos Community Foundation)
A History of Taos County Land Use Ethics, Planning, and Practice
(from the Taos County Growth Management Plan)
Havasupai Traditional and Historical Use of the Grand Canyon Village Area: Literature Review and Annotated Bibliography
(from the Grand Canyon/Havasupai Oral History Project)
Other Media
The Healing Ceremony
(podcast about the restoration of Bears Ears National Monument and Tribal co-stewardship)
de la Tierra
(quarterly radio programs produced for Taos Land Trust with assistance from Cultural Energy)
Featured in several episodes of The Shift of Land radio series:
- Part 1 – The Connection Between Land and Culture
- Part 5 – La Mezcla
- Part 6 – Current State of Things
- Part 7 – A National Perspective
- Part 10 – Land
Ernie Atencio
A conversation with New Mexico Wild Board member Ernie Atencio
Agriculture advocates get op accolades
Taos Pueblo takes ownership of Ponce de León springs
Thousands of acres later, director to leave land trust
Editorial: National Sierra Club Censors Northern New Mexico Group