055 - Ellen Wohl - The Secret Life of Mountain Ecosystems and the Afterlife of Trees

Writing Westward Podcast

A conversation with geoscientist Ellen Wohl about their books, Something Hidden in the Ranges: The Secret Life of Mountain Ecosystems and Dead Wood: The Afterlife of Trees (Oregon State University Press, 2021 and 2022).

Dr. Ellen Wohl is a University Distinguished Professor in the Department of Geosciences at Colorado State University.

Selected additional titles by Wohl include:

• Rain Forest Into Desert: Adventures in Australia's Tropical North (University of Colorado Press, 1994)
• Inland flood hazards: Human, Riparian, and Aquatic Communities (Cambridge University Press, 2000)
• Virtual Rivers: Lessons from the Mountain Rivers of the Colorado Front Range (Yale University Press, 2001)
• Island of Grass (University of Colorado Press, 2009)
• Of Rocks and Rivers: Seeking a Sense of Place in the American West (University of California Press, 2009)
• Mountain Rivers Revisited (American Geophysical Union, 2010)
• A World of Rivers: Environmental Change on Ten of the World's Great Rivers (University of Chicago Press, 2011)
• Disconnected Rivers: Linking Rivers to Landscapes (Yale University Press, 2012)
• Wide Rivers Crossed: The South Platte and the Illinois of the American Prairie (University of Colorado Press, 2013)
• Rivers in the Landscape: Science and Management (Wiley-Blackwell, 2014)
• Transient Landscapes: Insights on a Changing Planet (University of Colorado Press, 2015)
• Rhythms of Change in Rocky Mountain National Park (University of Kansas Press, 2016)
• Saving the Dammed: Why We Need Beaver-Modified Ecosystems (Oxford University Press, 2019)

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Podcast Notes:

• Host and Producer Brenden W. Rensink is Associate Director of the Redd Center, an Associate Professor of History at BYU, General Editor of the Intermountain Histories project, and author of the 2018 book Native but Foreign: Indigenous Immigrants and Refugees in the North American Borderlands. Links to other publications and projects here: https://linktr.ee/bwrensink
• Support provided by the Charles Redd Center for Western Studies at Brigham Young University.
  
• Podcast Music was written and recorded by local Provo composer by Micah Dahl Anderson.
• Episodes are recorded via Skype or in person and amateurishly engineered and produced by Professor Rensink.
• To submit a book to be considered for a podcast episode, email [email protected].