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Lawrence Culver @lawrencecphd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Gift link: “The hotel room too hot to sleep in, the hiking trail closed because of wildfire risk…sightseeing that becomes exhausting or potentially unsafe in extreme heat”…“climate comfort will become a new dimension of luxury, alongside space, privacy and service.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/t...

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How Climate Change Is Disrupting Summer Travel (Gift Article)

Once dismissed as occasional inconveniences, climate-related disruptions are now an inescapable fixture of summer travel. How will travelers respond?

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Hayden L. Nelson 🌲🐺🦫🔥🪵 @haydenlnelson.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The ink’s dry, so I’m incredibly happy and honored to share that my book, The North Woods: An Environmental History, is officially under contract with the @uwapress.uw.edu in their Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books series! Super excited to be working with @brdemuth.bsky.social as series editor!

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Hayden L. Nelson 🌲🐺🦫🔥🪵 @haydenlnelson.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Get yours today from @univpressofkansas.bsky.social here: kansaspress.ku.edu/9780700641994/ And check out the recent @draftingthepast.bsky.social episode featuring editors/contributors Tai Edwards and Charlee Huffman!

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Hayden L. Nelson 🌲🐺🦫🔥🪵 @haydenlnelson.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

It was such an honor to be a part of the Kaw Nation’s rematriation efforts and this beautiful resulting book by @univpressofkansas.bsky.social. The book is a beautiful tribute to the rock and years of activist work. Currently ranked 7th on Amazon in new releases in Native American Studies!

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Hayden L. Nelson 🌲🐺🦫🔥🪵 @haydenlnelson.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I have 200 words to write about what Herb Brooks meant to Minnesota (and US) hockey haha

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NiCHE Canada @nichecanada.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Call for Papers – A World of a Thousand Cuts: Forests, Wood, and Industrialisation Across the Globe in the 19th and 20th Centuries 6-8 July, 2027, hosted by the University of Turin Proposal Deadline: 30 November 2026 niche-canada.org/2026/09/17/c... #envhist #foresthistory #globalhistory

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Call for Papers - A World of a Thousand Cuts: Forests, Wood, and Industrialisation Across the Globe in the 19th and 20th Centuries

This 2027 University of Turin conference re-examines 19th-20th-century global industrialisation by exploring how timber's ongoing role reshaped world forests.

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Hayden L. Nelson 🌲🐺🦫🔥🪵 @haydenlnelson.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Yeah, I’m definitely gonna need that Great Horse Flu book.

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Hayden L. Nelson 🌲🐺🦫🔥🪵 @haydenlnelson.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Growing up, mine was Mr. Movies! Could obviously get movies, but pre-teen/teen me was much more interested in renting video games for a weekend. I still fondly remember renting a Jurassic Park-builder game for the PS2.

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Hayden L. Nelson 🌲🐺🦫🔥🪵 @haydenlnelson.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Unfortunately saving this to incorporate into my Modern US class this semester…

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Hayden L. Nelson 🌲🐺🦫🔥🪵 @haydenlnelson.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Visiting my grandmother in the nursing home and going through a lot of really old photos I’d never seen before, including this one of my grandfather (1938-2019) circa 1950. And this one of my grandmother’s grandparents (both born 1885) playing baseball in 1955.

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Hayden L. Nelson 🌲🐺🦫🔥🪵 @haydenlnelson.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Working in a coffee shop and overhear a grown-ass man say “I never understood why anyone would have to take history in college.” ffs

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NiCHE Canada @nichecanada.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Our most-read articles published in June! Links in the thread below. #envhist #envhum #queerecology

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Drafting the Past @draftingthepast.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

DRAFTING THE PAST is expanding! Together, @katecarp.bsky.social and @mkn.bsky.social are creating a website and newsletter devoted to nonfiction history books. You'll find book reviews, craft essays, author interviews, publishing news, and more--plus the podcast you already know and love. 🗃️ 1/

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Hayden L. Nelson 🌲🐺🦫🔥🪵 @haydenlnelson.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

A couple of years ago, as I was finishing my PhD, I aired some of my concerns about the environmental toll AI causes to a professor. They were (and likely still are) advocates of the tech. They had the audacity to say “Well, didn’t the invention of the printing press damage the environment?”

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Hayden L. Nelson 🌲🐺🦫🔥🪵 @haydenlnelson.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Oh, also: AI bases virtually all its “content” on the microscopically small amount of material that’s been digitized. Those materials that are digitally available reflects a historical bias made by well-funded orgs to prioritize certain things. A whole universe of documents haven’t been digitized.

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Hayden L. Nelson 🌲🐺🦫🔥🪵 @haydenlnelson.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

My thoughts on the AI discourse: the work of the historian is done through the friction of thinking. Countless hours of puzzling, questioning, and revising ideas. That’s how learning is done. The iterative process takes time, and oftentimes seems unproductive (no research or writing, just thought).

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Christopher Deutsch @drchrisdeutsch.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Who wants to join our food history panel for ASEH? Dm or email me if you would like to or know of a grad student or ntt scholar who would!

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Hayden L. Nelson 🌲🐺🦫🔥🪵 @haydenlnelson.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

I recently wrote a couple of articles on the history of forest fires and fire prevention in MN, one an overview and one more in-depth. #envhist #MinnesotaHistory #Wildfire @mprnews.org @minnpost.bsky.social Links to the articles: niche-canada.org/2026/06/13/t... www.mnhs.org/mnopedia/sea...

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Hayden L. Nelson 🌲🐺🦫🔥🪵 @haydenlnelson.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Happy to share a trio of MNopedia articles that I wrote. They trace the rise of commercial logging, industrial logging’s discontents, and the end of commercial logging in MN, covering more than a century. Since I can’t share three separate links, here’s my author page:

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Search results | MNopedia | Hayden Nelson

Hayden L. Nelson is a Gale Scholar and research historian at the Minnesota Historical Society. He earned his PhD in history in 2025 from the University of Kansas, specializing in environmental and Ind...

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Hayden L. Nelson 🌲🐺🦫🔥🪵 @haydenlnelson.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

I had the opportunity to review Cathy Coates’s book, To Banish Forever: A Secret Society, the Ho-Chunk, and Ethnic Cleansing in Minnesota (2024) for the Summer 2026 issue of Minnesota History.

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Hayden L. Nelson 🌲🐺🦫🔥🪵 @haydenlnelson.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

So amazing to experience between about 6 to 8 humpback whales bubble net feeding off the coast of Juneau.

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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 18/07/2026

Let's do some Canadian pipeline-wildfire math. The Canadian Energy Center says growing oil exports by 1.5M barrels/day **could** boost GDP by ~31B annually. Meanwhile, wildfire smoke health costs alone - just the health costs, nothing else - averaged 23B/year, past tense. And they're growing fast.

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Ontario hardest hit as wildfires cost Canada billions | NOW Toronto

A new report estimates wildfire smoke has cost Canada $231 billion since 2014. See how much each province has spent.

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Hayden L. Nelson 🌲🐺🦫🔥🪵 @haydenlnelson.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Also the oldest living organism on the planet! The current colony is estimated to be between 9,000 and 16,000 years old (since deglaciation), but the root system replicating these countless generations of clones is likely much older.

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Patrick Bigger @pmbigger.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

As fire season heats up and wildfire smoke begins to choke cities up and down the East Coast, a reminder that this administration has gutted the Forest Service, making fire prevention and responses even harder. Read more from @cplusc.bsky.social fellow Sara Nelson on our substack

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Setting Fire to the Forest Service

The Trump administration’s USFS reorganization plan is bad news for people and the planet

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Hayden L. Nelson 🌲🐺🦫🔥🪵 @haydenlnelson.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

The Austrian artist Franz Hölzlhuber visited the United States in the 1850s, painting a series of watercolors from his travels. During the summer of 1859, he rode a train between Lansing and Grand Haven in Michigan that got caught in a fire. firearchive.omeka.net/items/show/64

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Hayden L. Nelson 🌲🐺🦫🔥🪵 @haydenlnelson.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Fires are raging in the Upper Midwest/Canada and their smoke blanketing much of the broader Midwest and East. I wrote an article a couple of years ago on how forest fire smoke can change our conception of regional environments:

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Hayden L. Nelson 🌲🐺🦫🔥🪵 @haydenlnelson.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Submit book proposal ✅ Submit article ✅ Submit research grant app ✅ Now to finish my slides for tomorrow.

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Hayden L. Nelson 🌲🐺🦫🔥🪵 @haydenlnelson.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

“Done is better than perfect.” Thank you @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social, that’s exactly what I needed to hear. It can be so difficult and uncomfortable to send a draft off, but the peer collaboration in the editorial process is vital and one of the really beautiful things about the profession.

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Hayden L. Nelson 🌲🐺🦫🔥🪵 @haydenlnelson.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

In other words, he’s basically Jimmie Foxx (163 OPS+) and Pedro Martinez (154 ERA+) in one.

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Hayden L. Nelson 🌲🐺🦫🔥🪵 @haydenlnelson.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

If you want to get a sense of how insanely good Shohei Ohtani is at baseball, consider this: The average career OPS+ and ERA+ for all Hall of Fame hitters and pitchers is between 120 and 130. Ohtani has a 160 career OPS+ and a 151 career ERA+.

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Hayden L. Nelson 🌲🐺🦫🔥🪵 @haydenlnelson.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Bluesky Friends! I’ll be giving a talk at 1pm CDT next Tuesday at the International Falls Public Library. I’ll be expanding upon the work I’ve published on the V&RL and its relation to the end of industrial logging in MN. If you’re up in the International Falls/Fort Frances area, please stop by!

The sawed-off butt of a pine log featuring three “VRL” stamp marks hangs on a grayish wall. The log was cut by the Virginia and Rainy Lake Company in the 1910s or 1920. It now hangs on the walls of the Carlton County Historical Society in Cloquet, Minnesota.

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Hayden L. Nelson 🌲🐺🦫🔥🪵 @haydenlnelson.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

The Hull-Rust-Mahoning Mine, the expansion of which caused Hibbing to relocate two miles to the south in 1919-1921 (costing $18 mill.), is marketed today as the “Grand Canyon of the North.” Miners have moved twice the amount of earth in excavating this single mine than in building the Panama Canal.

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Drafting the Past @draftingthepast.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Hey! Drafting the Past is currently #200 on Apple Podcasts' history chart! I know this probably does not seem impressive to you (fair), but is an extremely big deal to me, so I'm celebrating!

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Hayden L. Nelson 🌲🐺🦫🔥🪵 @haydenlnelson.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

“Come on, brain, work.” I say to myself as I try to finish two projects that I’m behind on.

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Jim Clifford @jimclifford.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

"Thinking through forests: Colonialism, capitalism, and the global timber trade". Iva Lučić and I are excited to share the special issue on Timber Colonialism. #envhist @nichecanada.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Thinking through forests: Colonialism, capitalism, and the global timber trade

This introduction to the special issue on timber colonialism argues that forests offer a uniquely productive lens for comparing how colonialism and ca…

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Jared Dahl Aldern @jdaldern.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

"in late March 2026, the Trump administration announced a massive overhaul characterized as “common sense forestry”... these policies echo an earlier era when weak governmental oversight, inadequate funding, and deference to extractive industries contributed to devastating forest fires..."

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