REBECCA ANDERSEN teaches US History and Public History at Utah State University. She received a PhD in history from Arizona State University. Her work centers on twentieth-century Mormon environmental and urban history and has been published in the Utah Historical Quarterly. Andersen's recent book chapter, “‘For the Strength of the Hills’: Casting a Concrete Zion” appeared in The Earth Will Appear as the Garden of Eden: Essays in Mormon Environmental History (2019).
SARA DANT is Brady Presidential Distinguished Professor and Chair of History at Weber State University. Her work focuses on environmental politics in the United States, with a particular emphasis on the creation and development of consensus and bipartisanism. She is the author of Losing Eden: An Environmental History of the American West, an advisor and interviewee for Ken Burns's forthcoming documentary film The American Buffalo, the author of several prize-winning articles on western environmental politics,...
