BOOKS
Will Wright. Borders of Biodiversity: How Gray Wolves, Monarch Butterflies, and Giant Sequoias Transformed Large Landscape Conservation. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2026. Flows, Migrations, and Exchanges Series
RESEARCH ARTICLES
Will Wright, Katherine E. Koralesky, Marina A. G. von Keyserlingk, Heidi J.S. Tworek, and Daniel M. Weary. “Engaging publics on gene editing of farm animals: Evidence from the online grey literature.” Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene 13 (November 2025).
Will Wright. “Monarch Butterfly Conservation (Mexico).” Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Latin American History. Edited by Stephen Webre. 15 September 2022.Download
Will Wright, Heidi J.S. Tworek, Marina A.G. von Keyserlingk, Katherine E. Koralesky, and Daniel M. Weary. “Using Animal History to Inform Current Debates in Gene Editing Farm Animals.” Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems (4 August 2022).
Ellen Sharp and Will Wright. “‘We Were in Love with the Forest’: Protecting Mexico’s Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve.” Forest History Today 26 (Spring/Fall 2020): 4-16.
BOOK REVIEW ESSAYS
ENCYCLOPEDIA ENTRIES
- Will Wright. “Flooding in Colorado.” In Colorado Encyclopedia. Edited by William Wei et al. (August 2016).
- Will Wright. “Wildfire in Colorado.” In Colorado Encyclopedia. Edited by William Wei et al. (May 2016).
LITIGATION
- Mark Fiege, Fredrik Albritton Jonsson, and Will Wright. “Brief of Amici Curiae Environmental History Professors in Support of Plaintiffs-Appellees’ Answering Brief.” For United States of America, et al. v. Kelsey Cascadia Rose Juliana, et al., Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals (1 March 2019).
DIGITAL EXHIBITS
- Natasha Lee, Will Wright, and Heidi Tworek. “Holsteins Everywhere: A Bovine History.” ArcGIS StoryMap Tour (2022).
- Will Wright, “Helen McAuslan, Modern Medium: Art, Architecture, and Gender in Mid-Twentieth Century Bozeman, Montana.” Omeka Digital Exhibit (2016).
- Will Wright et al., “Around the Horn: Developing CSU’s Campus.” Ersi StoryMap Digital Companion to Colorado State University’s Sense of Place by James E. Hansen III, Linda Meyer, and Gordon Hazard (2016).
PHYSICAL EXHIBITS
- William Allen, Erica Carmody, Katelyn Diegnau, Max Hovda, Emma Ostwinkle, Calli Radel, Dylan Rehnke, Arianne Riedel, Lilly Roberts, Elijah Schipper, and Will Wright. Survival at Sea: Navigating Health on Battleship X. USS South Dakota Memorial and Museum, Sioux Falls, 2024.
HISTORIC PRESERVATION
- Zach Van Harris, Jr., Ian Kelly, Jenna Hageman, Amanda Schlampp, Catherine Banson, and Will Wright, Identifying and Documenting African American Heritage Sites in Sioux Falls, South Dakota: A Context Study (Sioux Falls, SD: City of Sioux Falls Board of Historic Preservation, 2024).
- Will Wright, editor. “African American Heritage Sites in Sioux Falls.” Plains History, January 2024.
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