with Michael W. Childers

From resorts to climbing, Yosemite’s popularity is putting its own future at risk.

An interview with Michael Childers about his new book, "The Mountains are Calling: Tourists and the Unmaking of Yosemite National Park" (University of Nebraska Press, 2026). It's a book about Yosemite...

Michael W. Childers’s new book explores the devastations wrought by tourism at American national parks.

Debate over turning public national park land into private profit dates back more than a century.

Gary Neptune, who climbed the Diamond on Longs Peak in the early 1970s with little beta, no guidebook and only a homemade hammock for sleeping on the rock face, couldn’t possibly foresee what his futu...

Michael W. Childers is an associate professor of history at Colorado State University. He is the author of Colorado Powder Keg: Ski Resorts and the Environmental Movement, winner of the Internation…

Ski resorts in Colorado can make snow, but it only goes so far.

Debate over turning public national park land into private profit dates back more than a century.

After reading Jason A. Heppler’s “Silicon Valley and the Environmental Inequalities of High-Tech Urbanism,” Patrick McCray decides that Silicon Valley should really be called Arsenic Valley....

The Department of Environmental Studies at St. Olaf College invites applications for a full-time, one-year position in Environmental History at the Visiting Instructor or Assistant Professor level to ...

Ski resort employment has surged above prepandemic levels as the hospitality sector overall remains flat