Edited Volumes

“The Sea Eagles That Returned to Mull” in Best American Science and Nature Writing 2024.

“There Goes a Badger.“ The Heart of the Wild. Eds. Ben Minteer and Jonathan Losos. Princeton University Press, 2024.

“Embracing New Nature.” Wild Wasatch Front. Natural History Museum of Utah and Lisa Thompson. Timber Press, 2024.

“A good story: Media bias in trophic cascade research in Yellowstone National Park” Effective Conservation Science: Data Not Dogma. Eds. Peter Kareiva, Michelle Marvier, and Brian Silliman. Oxford University Press, 2017.

“Feeding the World and Making Room for All Species.” The Reducetarian Solution. Ed. Brian Kateman. TarcherPerigee, 2017.

“Hybrid aversion: wolves, dogs, and the humans who love to keep them apart.” The Routledge Companion to the Environmental Humanities. Ed. Jon Christensen, Ursula Heise, and Michelle Niemann. Oxford: Routledge, 2017.

“Return of the Wolf.” Best American Science Writing 2016. Ed. Amy Stewart and Tim Folger. Mariner Books, 2016.

“Humility in the Anthropocene.” After Preservation. Ed. Ben A. Minteer and Stephen J. Pyne. University of Chicago Press, 2015.

“Gardening the Earth with Joy.” The Good Gardener? Nature, Humanity and the Garden. Ed by Annette Giesecke and Naomi Jacobs. Artifice Books on Architecture, 2015.

“Perspective: Coming of age in a trash forest.” Novel Ecosystems: Intervening in the New Ecological World Order. Ed. Richard J. Hobbs, Eric S. Higgs and Carol Hall. Wiley- Blackwell, 2013.

“Engaging the public in novel ecosystems.” with Laurie Yung, Steve Schwarze, Wylie Carr and Stuart Chapin III. Novel Ecosystems: Intervening in the New Ecological World Order. Ed. Richard J. Hobbs, Eric S. Higgs and Carol Hall. Wiley-Blackwell, 2013.

“Perspective: Is everything a novel ecosystem? If so, do we need the concept?” with Joseph Mascaro and Erle C. Ellis. Novel Ecosystems: Intervening in the New Ecological World Order. Ed. Richard J. Hobbs, Eric S. Higgs and Carol Hall. Wiley-Blackwell, 2013.

“Going Long: How to Sell a Book.“ The Science Writers’ Handbook: Everything You Need to Know to Pitch, Publish, and Prosper in the Digital Age. Ed Thomas Hayden and Michelle Nijhuis. Da Capo Press. 2013.

1. “Many pasts, many futures: Navigating the complexities of species reshuffling to help prevent extinctions.” Cambridge Prisms: Extinction 4 (2026): e2. With Lundgren, Erick, et al.
2. “An aspirational approach to planetary futures.” Nature 642.8069 (2025): 889-899. With Ellis, Erle C., et al.
3. “Ecosystem integrity is neither real nor valuable” Conservation Science and Practice. (2021). With Yasha Rohwer.
4. “Clarifying compassionate conservation with hypotheticals: response to Wallach et al. 2018” Conservation Biology. (2019). With Yasha Rohwer.
5. “Editing Nature: A call for global integrated deliberation to safeguard gene-editing of wild species” Science. 10.1126/science.aat4612 With Natalie Kofler et. al. (2018)
6. “An Analysis of Potential Ethical Justifications for Mammoth De-extinction And a Call for Empirical Research.” Ethics, Policy & Environment. https://doi.org/10.1080/21550085.2018.1448043. (2018) With Yasha Rohwer.
7. “Renaming restoration: conceptualizing and justifying the activity as a restoration of lost moral value rather than a return to a previous state.” Restoration Ecology 24.5 (2016): 674-679. With Yasha Rohwer.
8. “Is there a prima facie duty to preserve genetic integrity in conservation biology?” Target article in Ethics, Policy & Environment, 18(3). 2015. With Yasha Rohwer.