Participant Info
- First Name
- Leisl
- Last Name
- Carr Childers
- Country
- United States
- State
- CO Colorado
- leisl.carr_childers@colostate.edu
- Affiliation
- Colorado State University
- Website URL
- www.lcarrchilders.com
- Keywords
- public lands, public lands management, Great Basin, multiple use, environment, ranching, nuclear testing, atomic testing, wild horses, outdoor recreation, Sagebrush Rebellion, American West
- Availability
- Media Contact
- Additional Contact Information
- lcarrchilders@gmail.com
- PhD
- PhD
Personal Info
- Photo
- About Me
Professor Carr Childers’s research focuses on the American, West, specifically the history and management of the region’s public lands. She is also the co-editor of the Environment in Modern North America book series at the University of Oklahoma Press.
- Recent Publications
The Size of the Risk: Histories of Multiple Use in the Great Basin (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2015) – winner of the Western Writers of America 2016 Spur Award for Contemporary Nonfiction.
“The Angry West: Understanding the Sagebrush Rebellion in Rural Nevada,” in Bridging the Distance: Common Issues in the Rural West, edited by David Danbom (University of Utah Press, 2015).
- Media Coverage
- Social Media
- Country Focus
- Expertise by Geography
- United States
- Expertise by Chronology
- 20th century
- Expertise by Topic
- Environment, Public History, Rural & Agrarian History
