Summer 2011. Adventum, Issue 1. Encounter at Snowslide Gulch, pgs 60-63. Three fellow biologists and I undertake a cross-country trip into the Marble Mountain wilderness area to follow up on a report of a possible Marbled Murrelet. http://issuu.com/adventum/docs/adventum_issue_1_pdf_newest_copy

Fall 2010. The Motherhood Muse. Vol. 1, Issue 4. Of Smoke Alarms and Titmice, pgs 26-31. Artwork by Gary Bloomfield. A 1st-place winner in the journals nonfiction writing contest, the essay explores the link between birds and my mothers passing. http://www.epaperflip.com/aglaia/viewer.aspx?docid=e64876bf498940e7b8ca9c64b1864c56

Fall 2009. Crossroads: A Southern Culture Annual 2009. Mercer University Press. November 2009. ISBN-10: 0881460958 & ISBN-13: 978-0881460957. Short story: “Sunshine State Sojourn,” which details a birding trip to Florida.

Fall/Winter 2009. “A Region of Wounds: Severing the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands.” Terrain.org: A Journal of Built and Natural Environments. Issue 24. Theme: Borders and Bridges. www.terrain.org/articles/24/leskiw.htm

September 2009. “A Wood-Pewee’s Gift.” Birding, Vol. 41, No. 5, pages 76-78. American Birding Association.

Summer 2009. “The Great-tailed Grackle’s Fall From Grace.” The LBJ: Avian Life Literary Arts. Vol. 1, Number 2. Theme: Urb Bird Contest.

March 2007. “Awakenings.” Lantern Books 2006 Essay Contest. Theme: “Describe a Turning Point in Your Life.”

http://www.lanternbooks.com/blog/entry.php?id=432

Summer 2007. “The Discovery of the Hawaiian Islands: A Case of Human-Bird Mutualism.” The Caribbean Chapter of the College English Association (CEA-CC) Fall 2006 Conference Proceedings.  http://ece.uprm.edu/artssciences/ingles/cea-cc.htm

February 2007. “Fracas at Gate 2.” Spoken word ballad, which appears on compilation CD, “Hurwitz in Handcuffs.” Produced by Lost Coast League, the 23 selections  immortalize the arrest of Maxxam Corporation’s CEO Charles Hurwitz.

Fall 2006. “The Mourning Cloak.” Pilgrimage. Vol.31, Issue 3. Theme: Restoration. 

Fall 2006. “Hearing the Songs; Heeding the Call.” Terrain.org: A Journal of Built and Natural Environments. Issue 19.  Theme: The Music of It All. http://www.terrain.org/essays/19/leskiw.htm.

Spring/Summer 2006. “Following the Smoke: Fire—Demon or Ally?” Watershed, Brown University Journal of Environment and Culture. Issue 5. See piece in Leskiw's Essay section.

May/June 2006. “Encounter at Skunk Cabbage Creek.” Birding, Vol. 38, No. 3, pages 66-70. American Birding Association. Artwork by Gary Bloomfield.

November 2005. “Family Trees.” Sage of Consciousness, Vol. 1, Issue 3.  Theme: Resonating Places.  Website no longer maintained; see piece in Leskiw's Essay section.

May 2005. “A Tale of Two Rivers: the Colorado and San Pedro Rivers.” Terrain.org: A Journal of Built and Natural Environments.  Issue 16. Theme: The Living Desert. www.terrain.org/essays/16/leskiw.htm.

April 2005. “Atlas of the Breeding Birds of Humboldt County.” J. Hunter, et al. Redwood Region Audubon Society, publisher. Authored the Foreword.

Fall 2004. “Dead as the Dodo?” NILAS, Nature in Legend and Story. Theme: Flowers, Fruits, and Seeds.

Fall/Winter 2002-3. “A Tale of Two Trees.” NILAS, Nature in Legend and Story. Fall Theme: The Nature of Childhood.  Written Sept 28, 2001

Summer 1998. “Possible Predation of a Spotted Owl by a Barred Owl.” T. Leskiw, R. Guitierrez Western Birds 29:225-226. Hard copy journal; also at  http://elibrary.unm.edu/sora/wb/v29n03/p0225-p0226.pdf#search=%22tom%20leskiw%22.

1995. “A Guide to Birding in and Around Arcata [California]. © 1995 by the City of Arcata, CA. Authored chapter “Trinidad.” Available at the Arcata Marsh Interpretive Center. 

1993-present. Column in the Sandpiper, the monthly newsletter of the Redwood Region Audubon Society. Archive (1996-present) available at www.RRAS.org.

1990. “A Study of Plant Materials Suitable for the Rehabilitation of Landslides and Riparian Areas in the Trinity River Watershed, California” (Furniss, Mathews, Leskiw, Six Rivers National Forest). Out of print.

Conference Presentations

“Of Borderlands and Severed Connections.” Presented at the 8^th biennial conference of the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment (ASLE). June 2009, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. An expanded version of presentation appears at  www.terrain.org/articles/24/leskiw.htm

“Animals: As Viewed Through the Cultural Lens.” Presented at the 7^th biennial conference of the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment (ASLE). June 2007, Spartanburg, South Carolina.

“Structural Improvements Roads, Fences, etc.) and Their Impact on Wildlife.” Presented at the 6^th biennial conference of ASLE. June 2005, Eugene, Oregon.

“Some Thoughts on Human/Plant Interactions: The Lesson of Lotis Blue.” Presented at the 5^th biennial conference of ASLE. June 2003, Boston, Massachusetts.

“The Road That Leads Home.” Presented at the 4^th biennial conference of ASLE. June 2001, Flagstaff, Arizona.

Interviews

Pete Dunne. April, 2009

Dr. Stanley Harris. www.rras.org. October, 2006, pages 3-4.

Eulogies

Greg Jennings, ecologist. www.rras.org. October 2008, page 3.

Paul Springer, biologist. www.rras.org. September 2007, pages 3-5.

Tim McKay, Director of the Northcoast Environmental Center. www.rras.org. September 2006, page 3.

Book Reviews

The American Bird Conservancy Guide to Bird Conservation. The American Bird Conservancy (2010). Reviewed in 2011. http://www.terrain.org/reviews/28/guide_to_bird_conservation.htm

 

All other reviews on H-NET.

 

“Visions of the Land: Science, Literature, and the American Environment from the Era of Exploration to the Age of Ecology.” Michael A. Bryson.

http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=9288

 

“The Tree.” Dana Lyons.

http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=7566

 

“Patriotism and the American Land.” Barry Lopez, Richard Nelson, Terry Tempest Williams.

http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=6996