Publications

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BOOKS 

Winner of the 2025 J.B. Jackson Prize from the American Association of Geographers.              Youngs, Yolonda. 2024. Framing Nature: The Creation of an American Icon at the Grand Canyon. University of Nebraska Press.  https://www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/nebraska/9781496202185/framing-nature/

Buckley, Geoffrey and Yolonda Youngs, eds. 2018. The American Environment Revisited: Environmental Historical Geographies of the United States. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers. https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781442269965/The-American-Environment-Revisited-Environmental-Historical-Geographies-of-the-United-States#

Journal Articles, Book Chapters, and Reviews (peer reviewed)

Youngs, Y. Yellowstone Lake, Chapter 5. In Designs Upon Nature: The Cultural Landscape of Yellowstone National Park, edited by William Wyckoff and Karl Byrand. University Press of Colorado. Invited submission. (Forthcoming in Print Fall 2025). https://upcolorado.com/university-of-wyoming-press/item/6770-designs-upon-nature

Buckley, L. G., Finnicum, N. O’Malley, M., Bowie, J., and Youngs, Y. 2024. Learning by Doing: Building Place-Based Experiential Learning into the Honors Curriculum at Ohio University. Honors in Practice Journal. Peer Reviewed Journal. (Accepted, Forthcoming in Print Fall 2025, annual journal)

Wilson, R. and Y. Youngs. 2023. “Public Lands” In A Companion to the American Landscape edited by C. Post, A. Greiner, G. Buckley. London, U.K. Routledge Press. Invited submission. (Hardback 2023. Paperback 2024) https://www.routledge.com/The-Routledge-Companion-to-the-American-Landscape/Post-Greiner-Buckley/p/book/9780367640156 [routledge.com]

Pashibin, T. (student), G. Buckley, and Y. Youngs. 2022. Contested Canyonlands: Negotiating Multiple Use Strategies, National Park Creation, and Unlikely Partnerships. Yearbook of the Association of Pacific Coast Geographers, 84(1); 37-65. https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/5/article/879823

Youngs, Y. 2020. Danger Beyond This Point: Visual Representation, Cultural Landscapes, and the Geography of Environmental Hazards in U.S. National Parks. GeoHumanities: Space, Place, and Humanities. doi:10.1080/2373566X.2020.1784017

Mumich, N. (student), G. Buckley, Y. Youngs, and T. Martello (student).  2020. Protecting Canyonlands: Anatomy of a National Park Controversy in Southern Utah.  Social Sciences 9 (179): 1-21. doi:10.3390/socsci9100179

Youngs, Y. 2019. Viewing Power and Place at the Grand Canyon. Journal of Arizona History. Special GRCA Centennial Issue. Invited submission. https://muse.jhu.edu/article/744823

Youngs, Y. 2018. Wild, Unpredictable, and Dangerous: A Historical Geography of Hazards and Risk in U.S. National Parks.  In The American Environment Revisited: Environmental Historical Geographies of the U.S. edited by Geoffrey Buckley and Yolonda Youngs. Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers. https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781442269965/The-American-Environment-Revisited-Environmental-Historical-Geographies-of-the-United-States#

Youngs, Y. 2017. Constructing Place Attachment in Grand Teton National Park. In Explorations in Place Attachment: A Geographic Perspective, Edited by Jeffrey S. Smith. Series: Routledge Research in Culture, Space, and Identity Series. CRC Press-Taylor & Francis Group. https://www.crcpress.com/Explorations-in-Place-Attachment/Smith/p/book/9781138729742

Meyer, J. and Y. Youngs. 2017. Historical Landscape Change in Yellowstone National Park: Demonstrating the Value of Intensive Field Observation and Repeat Photography. Geographical Review, 108 (3): 387 – 409. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/gere.12255

Youngs, Y. 2015. Review of Creating the American West: Boundaries and Borderlands (Derek Everett, University of Oklahoma Press, 2014). Journal of American History 102 (3): 872.

McBeth, M., Turley-Ames, K., Youngs, Y., Ahola-Young, L., Brumfield, A. 2015. The iPad Pilot Project: A Faculty Driven Effort to Use Mobile Technology in the Reinvention of the Liberal Arts.  Journal of Teaching and Learning Technology. 4 (1): 1-21. https://jotlt.indiana.edu/article/view/13216

8. Youngs, Y. 2014. Shaping Tourism. In North American Odyssey: Historical Geographies for the Twenty-First Century edited by Craig Colten and Geoffrey Buckley. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers.

Youngs, Y. 2014. Review of Making of Rocky Mountain National Park: The Environmental History of an American Treasure (Frank, Jerry J., Lawrence, KS: University of Kansas Press, 2013). Invited Review for H-Environment, H-Net Reviews. Published November 24, 2014.

Youngs, Y. 2012. Editing Nature in Grand Canyon National Park Postcards. Geographical Review. 102 (4): 486-509.

Youngs, Y. 2013. Review of Observation Points: The Visual Poetics of National Parks (Thomas Patin, ed, Univ. of Minnesota Press, 2012). Journal of Cultural Geography. 30 (2): 266-271.

Youngs, Y. 2012. Review of Yellowstone Denied: The Life of Gustavus Cheyney Doane (Kim Allen Scott, Univ. of Oklahoma Press, 2007). Historical Geography. 40 (1):  229-230.

Youngs, Y. 2011. On Grand Canyon Postcards.  Environmental History. 16 (1): 138-147.

Youngs, Y. 2011. Mapping an Enchanted Solitude: Cartographic Representations of Yellowstone National Park, U.S.A. Proceedings of the 25th International Cartographic Conference.

Youngs, Y., White, D. and Wodrich, J. 2008. Transportation Systems as Cultural Landscapes in National Parks: A Historical and Interpretive Study of Visitors’ Transportation Behavior in  Yosemite Valley.  Society and Natural Resources: An International Journal.  21 (9): 797-811.

Other publications

Geil, K. and Y. Youngs. 2018. Oral Histories of Exum Mountain Guides Who Began Guiding Between 1947 and 1965. University of Wyoming National Park Service Research Center Annual Report (2018). In Press 2020 (delayed press due to administrative changes UWNPS)

Youngs, Y. 2016. Tracing the Cultural History of the Upper Snake River Guides in Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming.  University of Wyoming National Park Service Research Center Annual Report. In Press 2020 (delayed press due to administrative changes UWNPS).

Y. Youngs. 2015. Creating a Digital Wonderland: Environmental and Cultural History in the Digital Age. Ant, Spider, Bee. Rachel Carson Center Environmental and Society.  Published online July 21, 2015.  Invited essay.

Hirt, P. and Y. Youngs. 2012. A Century of Tourism at Grand Canyon. Canyon Views. Fall 2012, Volume XIX (3): 6-7. Invited essay.

White, D., Youngs, Y., Wodrich, J., Borcherding, T. 2006 (March).  Visitor Experiences and  Transportation Systems in Yosemite National Park, Final Technical Report.  National Park   Service, U.S. Department of the Interior.

Youngs, Y. 2008. Beyond Parks as Polygons: Historical GIS, National Parks, and Opportunities that Beckon Historical Geographers. Past Place: The Newsletter of the Historical Geography Specialty Group of the Association of American Geographers. 16 (2): 5-6.