Freelance

Earth Matters Now:

On Tuesday, January 27, 2026, Jack joined Nick Jeffries, the Wildland Resource Planner for the City of Spokane, on KYRS’s Earth Matters Now! for a two-hour conversation about fire on the Inland Northwest landscape.  Hosted by Laura Ackerman and Mike Peterson, this episode can now be accessed as a podcast by going to https://archive.kyrs.org/ and scrolling down to the 12:00-2:00 pm time slot for January 27th. You can also download it by clicking here.

HistoryLink.org:

Jack has completed a pair of visual essays for HistoryLink.org that explore tribal use of fire on the landscape around the period of contact—one for east of the Cascades, one for the west side. 

You can view them at

 https://historylink.org/File/23302

https://historylink.org/File/23301

North Columbia Monthly:

Jack has stepped back from his monthly Boundaries column for North Columbia Monthly. He offers many thanks to Steve and Karla Rumsey and Gabriel Cruden for allowing him to write it for so long.Attached is a complete list of his Boundary columns for 2002-2019 plus an index of the articles and illustrations as they appeared in time.

Boundaries articles all 2019 Boundaries Index 2019

• Scat Dogs – November 2009
• Looking for Crossbills – May 2009
• Winter Birds – February 2008
• David Douglas at Play – October 2009
• David Thompson’s Eyes – December 2007
• Mammoth Orals – April 2009
• Lamprey – April 2007
• Nancy Turner & Salmon bone archaeology – August 2009
• Camp Flying Squirrel – March 2009
• Charles Wilson’s Two Winters – February 2007
• Finan McDonald – September 2007
• Finan McDonald II – October 2007
• Old Cox – July 2009
• Tiger Salamander Range – October 2008
• Asahel Curtis – June 2009
• Remembering Winter – February 2009
• Ariadna Spiders – November 2007
• Carpenter Ants on the Wing and in the Wood – May 2007
• Ceanothus Silkmoths – June 2007
• Snow Fleas – January 2008
• Thatch Ants – January 2007
• Ariadna Spiders – November 2007
• Carpenter Ants on the Wing and in the Wood – May 2007
• Ceanothus Silkmoths – June 2007
• Dog Days I – August 2008
• Dog Days II – September 2008
• Lamprey – April 2007
• Lomatiums – July 2008
• Looking for Crossbills – May 2009
• Mammoth Teeth – January 2009
• Nancy Turner & Salmon bone archaeology – August 2009
• Scat Dogs – November 2009
• Snow Fleas – January 2008
• Thatch Ants – January 2007
• The Future of Stone Rose – August 2007
• Tiger Salamander Range – October 2008
• Trillium – April 2008
• Willamette Meteorite – March 2007
• Winter Birds – February 2008
• The Future of Stone Rose – August 2007
• Lomatiums – July 2008
• Trillium – April 2008
• Willamette Meteorite – March 2007
• How History Looks Now: A Kalispel Encampment, 2009 – September 2009
• Manning Collection – May 2008
• Sweat Lodges – November 2008
• The Professional: How to Throw an Atlatl – July 2007