Public-Facing Work
Extension Fact Sheets
Doucette, Hailey, Leisl Carr Childers, and Retta Bruegger. An Overview of Wild Horse and Burro Management in the American West. CSU Extension Fact Sheets, 2021. Revised 2025.
Carr Childers, Leisl, Hailey Doucette, and Retta Bruegger. The History of Wild Horses and Burros in Colorado and the American West. CSU Extension Fact Sheets, 2021. Revised 2025.
Select Talks
“We are a Mountain People,” The Community Library, Ketchum, Idaho, June 17, 2026.
“True West, Contentious West: An Interview with Betsy Gaines Quammen,” Ivan Doig Center, Montana State University, November 1, 2023.
“5th Annual Colorado Public Lands Day Roundtable!,” Colorado State Senator Kerry Donovan, May 11, 2021.
“Case Studies in Collaboration: History, Community, and Wild Horse Management,” Join Up! Exploring the History and Contemporary Legacy of Wild Horses in Colorado and the American West, History Colorado, April 29, 2021.
“Histories of Western Lands and the Ongoing Question of Rights,” Utah Annual History Conference, Utah Division of State History, September 17, 2020.
“Forum on Public Lands in the American West,” Utah Division of State History and National Park Service Webinar June 15, 2020.
“The Size of the Risk: Histories of Multiple Use in the Great Basin,” Wallace Stegner Center Lecture, Wallace Stegner Center for Land Resources and the Environment, February 23, 2017.
“Historical Perspectives on the Public Lands Debate in the American West,” Rural Utah/Western Issues, Utah Division of State History, September 30, 2016.
“Making Sense of Mustang, Mushroom Clouds, and the Meaning of Public Lands,” Charles Redd Center Lecture, Charles Redd Center for Western Studies, September 29, 2016.
Media
Amy Alonzo, “Nevada public lands $1 billion short for deferred maintenance needs,” Nevada Independent, June 24, 2026.
Leisl Carr Childers and Michael Childers, “Why protecting wildland is crucial to American freedom and identity,” The Conversation, May 13, 2025.
Amy Alonzo, “Will the release of federal land help Nevada’s affordable housing crisis? It depends,” Nevada Independent, June 1, 2025.
Noel Black, “A Wild Horse Isn’t Just A Horse, Of Course,” May 1, 2023.
Nick Reynolds, “Barrasso Critique of BLM Nominee Said to Politicize Bureaucratic Post,” WyoFile, June 14, 2021.
Daniel Rothberg and Jackie Valley, “Extremism, with Roots in the West, Casts Unease Over Inauguration Day Activities,” Nevada Independent, January 20, 2021.
Michael DiGregorio, “Gus Bundy: Mustangs, Myths, and Misfits,” B&W Magazine, Winter 2021.
James Skillen and Leisl Carr Childers, “Opinion: Why the United States Needs to Change How it Manages Public Land,” Thomas Reuters Foundation News, October 27, 2020.
Brad Westwood, “Leisl Carr Childers: Understanding Cliven Bundy and Utah Public Lands,” Speak Your Piece, Season 2 Episode 2, Parts I and II (September 2020).
Jim Dalrymple II, “Trump’s Latest Pardons Could Fan Anti-Government Anger In The Rural West,” BuzzFeed News, July 10, 2018.
Leah Sottile, “Bundyville: Season 1,” Longreads and Oregon Public Radio, May 2018.
Joe Schoenmann, “UNR Professor Argues Wild Horses Hurting Nevada’s Ecosystem,” KNPR State of Nevada, February 13, 2018.
Rachel Layman, “The Great American Road Trip, Part I,” Episode 7, out•LAND•ish: Voices from Your Public Lands Podcast, September 28, 2017.
Leisl Carr Childers, “The Federal Government Can’t Manage Them Alone,” in “Up For Debate: Should Federal Lands Be transferred to Western States,” PERC Reports (Summer 2017): 8.
Abby Ellis, “American Patriot,” PBS Frontline, May 16, 2017.
Joe Schoenmann, “Will the Wild Horses be Dragged Away?,” KNPR State of Nevada, April 13, 2017.
Tay Wiles, “How Ryan Bundy Sees the West,” High Country News, February 20, 2017.
Tay Wiles, “What to Read to Prepare for the Bundy Trial,” High Country News, February 6, 2017.
Leah Sottile, “A Year Ago, Armed Occupiers Seized a Wildlife Refuge in Harney County. This Oregonian Was Ready to Join,” Portland Monthly, January 23, 2017.
Tay Wiles, “Federal-Lands Ranching: A Half-Century of Decline,” High Country News, June 13, 2016.
