Previous Recipients 2003 Blegen Award
Wondrak, Alice K. "Wrestling with Horace Albright: Edmund Rogers, Visitors, and Bears in Yellowstone National Park. Part I; Part II" 52 Montana the Magazine of Western History (Autumn; Winter 2002): 2-15; 18-31. On the establishment and difficulties of prohibiting bear feeding practices within the Yellowstone National Park during the 1930s and 1950s. | Read Article [PDF] | 2002 Blegen Award
Ewert, Sara E. "Evolution of an Environmentalist: Senator Frank Church and the Hells Canyon Controversy," Montana the Magazine of Western History 51 (Spring 2001): 36-51. Examines the gradual evolution of the views toward environmental politics held by Senator Frank Church of Idaho. | Read Article [PDF] | 2001 Blegen Award
Andrew H. Fisher. "Working in the Indian Way: The Southwest Forest Firefighter Program and Native American Wage Labor," Arizona History, Vol. 41, No. 2, (Summer 2000):121-148. | | 2000 Blegen Award
Stacy Mitchell. "Union in the North Woods: The Timber Strikes of 1937," Minnesota History, Vol. 56, No. 5, (Spring 1999): 262-277. | | | 1999 Blegen Award
Taylor, Joseph E., III, "El Nino and Vanishing Salmon: Culture, Nature History, and the Politics of Blame" in Western Historical Quarterly, Vol. 29, No. 4, (Winter, 1998):437-457. | | 1998 Blegen Award
Fisher, Andrew H. "The 1932 Handshake Agreement: Yakama Indian Treaty Rights and Forest Service Policy in the Pacific Northwest" in Western Historical Quarterly , Vol. 28, No. 2, (Summer 1997): 187-217. | | 1997 Blegen Award
Outland, Robert B., III. "Slavery, Work, and the Geography of the North Carolina Naval Stores Industry, 1835-1860" in Journal of Southern History , Vol. 57 (February 1996): 27-56. | | 1996 Blegen Award
Mccullough, Robert I. "A Forest in Every Town: Vermont's History of Communal Woodlands" in Vermont History , Vol. 64 (Winter 1996):5-35. | | 1995 Blegen Award
Pyne, Stephen J. "Nataraja: India's Cycle of Fire" in Environmental History Review , Vol. 18 (Fall 1994): 1-20. | | 1994 Blegen Award
Rajala, Richard A. "The Forest as Factory: Technological Change and Worker Control in the West Coast Logging Industry, 1880-1930" in Labour/Le Travail , Vol. 32 (Fall 1993): 73-104. | | 1993 Blegen Award
Cronon, William J. "A Place for Stories: Nature, History, and Narrative" in Journal of American History , Vol. 78 (March 1992): 1347-1376. | | 1992 Blegen Award
Duncan, Colin A.M. "On Identifying a Sound Environmental Ethic in History: Prolegomena to Any Future Environmental History" in Environmental History Review , Vol. 15 (Summer 1991): 5-30. | | 1991 Blegen Award
Dilsaver, Lary M. and Douglas H. Strong. "Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks: One Hundred Years of Preservation and Resource Management" in California History , Vol. 69 (Summer 1990): 98-117. | | |
