A pretty comprehensive list of what he's written: books, articles and essays, poetry and criticism, works made for hire. And the recognitions this body of work has earned. Latest entries first.

Books including contributions to joint works 

(With Nancy Kittle). Legacy:  Portraits of 50 Bay Area Environmental Elders. San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, 2006.

Walking Softly in the Wilderness: The Sierra Club Guide to Backpacking. San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, 2005 (fourth edition). First edition 1977; Japanese language edition, 1980. Acknowledged as "Work of Significance" in National Outdoor Book Awards, 1999.

(Contributor). Steve Roper, ed. Yosemite Once Removed: Portraits of the Backcountry.  Yosemite: Yosemite Association, 2003. Photographs by Claude Fiddler. Hart essay "Heart of Brightness."

(With David Sanger). San Francisco Bay: Portrait of an Estuary. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003. Received Carla Bard Bay Education Award, The Bay Institute of San Francisco, 2003.

(Contributor). Claude Fiddler and Steve Roper. A Vast and Ancient Wilderness: Images of the Great Basin. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1997. Foreword and some caption texts by Hart.

(Contributor).  Gardens of Alcatraz. San Francisco: Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy, 1996. Received Honorable Mention, National Park Service Cooperating Association Interpretive Excellence Competition, 1996. Hart essay "The Curious Greening of Alcatraz."

Storm over Mono: The Mono Lake Battle and the California Water Future. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996. Received the Medal in Californiana, Commonwealth Club of California, 1997.

(Contributor). Morton Beebe, editor/photographer. San Francisco. New York: Abrams, 1993.  Hart essay "The Rediscovered Shore."  

Saving Cities, Saving Money: Environmental Strategies That Work. Sausalito, California: Resource Renewal Institute, 1992.

Redwood Refuge: Muir Woods National Monument. San Francisco: Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy, 1992. Received Award, National Park Service Cooperating Association Publications Competition, 1992.

Farming on the Edge: Saving Family Farms in Marin County, California. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991. Received the Medal in Californiana, Commonwealth Club of California, 1992.

Hiking the Great Basin: The High Desert Country of California, Oregon, Nevada and Utah. San Francisco: Sierra Club, 1981; second edition, 1991.

(Editor). The New Book of California Tomorrow: Reflections and Projections from the Golden State. Los Altos, Ca.: William Kaufmann, 1985. An interpretative anthology of articles published by the influential periodical Cry California.

(Contributor). History of Petaluma: A California River Town. Petaluma: Scottwall Associates, 1982.

San Francisco's Wilderness Next Door. San Rafael, California: Presidio Press, 1979. A history of Point Reyes National Seashore and the Golden Gate National Recreation Area.

The Climbers. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press (Pitt Poetry Series), 1978.

Hiking the Bigfoot Country: The Wildlands of Northern California and Southern Oregon. San Francisco: Sierra Club, 1975. 

(Contributor). Randall W. Scott, Ed. Management and Control of Growth. Washington, DC: Urban Land Institute, 1975.

Articles and essays

“Across the Golden Gate.” Skyward 4,10 (January 2007). Touring sites where nature is being restored around San Francisco Bay.

“Protecting Bay Area Open Space: A Quarter of a Victory.” SPUR Newsletter, September 2006.

"Guaranteed Returns: Banking Land for Future Parks." Bay Nature, June-September 2006.

"Private Land, Public Good: Taking Stock of Conservation Easements." Bay Nature, January-March 2006. Special report on what has quietly become the nation's top land conservation tool.

"Against the Wind." Essay contribution to Sierra Club's Every Day Matters project, August 2005.

Robert Vincent Golden, 1928-2004. Extended obituary of the conservationist, naturalist, and fly fisherman. Privately printed, 2004.

"Home, Sweet Estuary Home." The Museum of California 28, no. 1 (Winter 2004), 9-13. Article in connection with exhibition at Oakland Museum, January-March 2004.

"Portrait of an Estuary: San Francisco Bay." Text for exhibit at Oakland Museum of California, January-March 2004.

“Golden Gate Glories.” First appearance Philadelphia Inquirer, 8-31-03. Article on San Francisco Bay syndicated to thirteen national newspapers.

“Saved by Grit and Grace: Wild Legacy of the Marin Headlands.” Bay Nature, July-September 2003.

“Rooted In History: The Many Lives Of Rancho Olompali. Bay Nature, January-March 2003.

“David Brower, 1912-2000.” Bayletter (The Bay Institute), Winter 2001.

“The Thing on Southeast Farallon.” Green Museum (www.greenmuseum.org), 2001. Evocation of an island wildlife refuge and a habitat structure/environmental artwork constructed there by Meadowsweet Dairy.

“Tomales Bay Convergence.” Coast and Ocean 16, no. 3 (Autumn 2000).

“Water Pollution.” Signed article in Encarta CD-ROM encyclopedia (Microsoft, 1999).

“Air Pollution.” Signed article in Encarta CD-ROM encyclopedia (Microsoft, 1999).

Untitled reminiscence on Pacific Sun tenure in early 1970s. Pacific Sun, May 20-26, 1998 (35^th anniversary issue). Published with excerpts of four articles from the early 1970s.

“Golden Gate National Recreation Area: The Birth of the Park.” Park News Fall 1997. An adaptation from San Francisco’s Wilderness Next Door.

“The View from Panum Crater.” Pacific Discovery Summer 1997.

“Hiking the Bigfoot Country.” Backpacker April 1997.

“Mono Lake and the Great Game.” Introductory essay, Mono Lake calendar, Mono Lake Committee, 1997.

“Storm Over Mono.” Examiner Magazine, 18 August 1996. Excerpt from the book.

“Worth a Thousand Words?” Summit Summer 1996. Review: three recent mountain photography books.

“Books on the Basics of Backpacking.” Summit Winter 1995/96.

"Southern Exposure." Summit Summer 1995. Review: books on Mexican and border wilderness.

"Are We Having Fun, Yet?" Summit Spring 1995. Review: books by Fiennes and Stroud on the unsupported crossing of Antarctica.

"Classic Tales, Young and Old." Summit Winter 1994-95. Review: classic mountain adventure books.

"Tales of the Mountain-Drawn: Fantasy Novels for Questing into the Other World." Summit Fall 1994. Review: fantasy novels with mountain settings by Myers, Silverberg, Willis.

"Conversations with Climbers: Is the Talk of Fascinating People Always Fascinating?" Summit Summer 1994. Review: climber interview books.

"Mass Market Mountains: Bringing Expedition Lit to the Supermarket Check-out Counter." Summit Winter 1993-94. Review: the Laurel Expedition Series.

"A Walk on the Wild Side: Climbing vs. the Wilderness Act." Climbing December 1993-January 1994.

"Bogus Advice: Seven Popular 'Unfacts' Explained." Summit Guide, Fall-Winter 1993-94. Common errors in advice for the wilderness traveler.

“Everything There Is—Except Ourselves.” Introductory essay, Sierra Club Engagement Calendar, 1994.

"Moving Marvelously: Insights from the Current Crop of Climbers' Autobiographies." Summit Fall 1993. Review.

"Suburban Encroachment? Golf Course and Development Threatens Smith Rock." Climbing 139 August-September 1993.

"Your National Forest for Sale—Cheap. The 1872 Mining Law and Wilderness Abuse." Climbing 138, June-July 1993. 

"Leading Women." Summit Summer 1993. Review: books by/about female mountaineers. 

"Up On the Farm: The First Global Look at Man's Effect on the Mountains." Summit Spring 1993. Review: "The State of the Mountains" report by Mountain Agenda.

"Basic Sympathy: How to Overcome the Jinx of Mountain Fiction." Summit Winter 1992-93. Review.

"Are Things Heating Up? The Greenhouse Effect and Climbers." Climbing 135, December 1992-January 1993.

"Still Smiling? Counterdevelopment and the Importance of Pride—Recipes for Himalayan Futures." Summit Fall 1992. Review: Norberg-Hodge and others on change in Sherpaland.

"Valley Be Tame: How Many Concessions for Muir's 'Harmless Scum'?" Summit Summer 1992. Review of books and planning documents on Yosemite National Park.

"Up for Grabs: The Yosemite National Park Concession." Climbing 132, June-July 1992. 

"The Shock of Killing. Mountain and War: A Need for Conflict?" Summit Spring 1992. Review: books about mountain warfare.

"Humpty Dumpty Shat on a Wall: A Guide to Responsible Elimination." Climbing 130, February-March 1992.

"Denali: A Very Serious Business." Summit Winter 1991-92. Review: books about Mt. McKinley.

"Parks for the Peaks: A Canadian Conservation Battle." Climbing 135, December 1991-January 1992.

"Wild in Nature: Of Land Organisms and Earning the Right to Preach." Summit Fall 1991. Review: essays by Aldo Leopold and Gary Snyder.

(With Bob McConnell). "Doing It Right on the Rongbuk: E3 and the Great Chain of Trash." Climbing 127, August-September 1991. Litter pickup on Mount Everest.

"Strange Doings at Mount Shasta." Climbing 126, June-July 1991.

"Marin Battle: Cows vs. Condos." California Planner 3, 4 (May 1991).

"Climbers Do Pickup Duty at Half Dome." Climbing 118, February-March 1990.

(With co-authors). "California's Shrinking Farmland." California Agriculture, July-August 1987.

"Surviving the Sands." Sierra, March/April 1985. Review: books on desert hiking.

"Camping's Innermost Secrets." Family Weekly, May 6, 1984.

"Land, Water and Soil: The Greater Realities of California Agriculture." California Tomorrow, Winter 1983.

"Hiking the Desert and Surviving." Sierra, November-December 1983.

"Keeping Cool About Heatstroke." Sierra, November-December 1983.

"A Park for All Reasons." California Living (San Francisco Examiner), October 17, 1982. On tenth anniversary of Golden Gate National Recreation Area.

"Red Rock Rambler." Nevada, June 1982. The Red Rock Canyon area near Las Vegas.

"In Celebration." Pacific Sun, Oct 15-21, 1982. On tenth anniversary of Golden Gate National Recreation Area.

"A Readable Guide to Wetland Plants." Pacific Sun, 1982. Review: Common Wetland Plants of California by Phyllis Faber.

"A Region Seeks Balance in Turbulent Times: A Conference Summary." Cry California, Fall 1981. Bay Area 2000 Conference.

The Great Basin: The MX Missile and the Sense of Place. Paper prepared for MX Missile Committee, National Resources Defense Council, 1981.

"The Troubled Parks." Cry California, Summer 1981. National park controversies under Interior Secretary James Watt.

"The North Coast Speaks Out: Hands Off! The Redwood Rebellion. A Conference Summary." Cry California, Winter 1980-81.

(With coauthor). "Agriculture in the Bay Area: Its High Productivity, Its Troubled Future." Cry California, Summer 1980. 

(With co-author). "Farmers Who Are Holding On." California Living, May 4, 1980.

"Deciding the Future of Bureau of Land Management Wilderness." Sierra, November-December, 1979. The BLM's roadless area review process.

"Foggy Notions." PSA California, August 1979. What makes California's fogs.

"Parks for the People." Sierra, September-October 1979. Excerpt from San Francisco's Wilderness Next Door.

"Wilderness Next Door." California Living, June 17, 1979. An excerpt from the book.

"The Essential Snow Cave." Outside, December 1977.

"One System, Many Masters." Cry California, Fall 1977. California water planning.

"The Delta: The Living (Or Dying?) Heart of California." Cry California, Summer 1977.

"The Forecasters' Quandary." Cry California, Spring 1977. California energy planning.

"Petaluma: The Little Town That Could." Cry California, Summer 1976. Growth control.

"Can Urban Boundary Lines Manage Growth?" Cry California, Winter 1975-76.

"Assault on the Siskiyous." Cry California, Fall 1975. Early call for the preservation of the Siskiyou Wilderness in far northern California.

"Reading Matter for Outdoorsmen." Pacific Sun, May 22-28, 1975. Review: how to books for backpackers.

"Sacramento Town Meeting." Cry California, Spring 1975. A planning conference report.

"The Petaluma Case." Cry California, Spring 1974. A landmark lawsuit over local government growth control.

"To Plan or to Panic." Cry California, Winter 1973-74. The first "energy crisis" and energy planning.

"Did the Pieces Fit?" Cry California, Summer 1973.  A planning conference summary.

"Home Rule, City Politics, and the Master Plan." Pacific Sun, Feb. 1-7, 1973. Progress of the Marin Countywide Plan.

"You've Come a Long Way, Baby, Since the Days When John Muir Went Hiking." Pacific Sun, August 31-Sept. 6, 1972. The state of the Sierra Club.

"The Last Roundup: Ag Zone Defense." Pacific Sun, July 6-12, 1972. Keeping coastal ranching alive.

"Notches in the Belt." Pacific Sun, April 6-12, 1972. Growth of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area concept.

"Wilderness Adventure." Sierra Club Bulletin, March 1972. Wilderness conservation research trips.

"The Plan for Two Kinds of Marin: 'Can the Last Place Last?'" Pacific Sun, Oct. 27-Nov. 3, 1971. Marin County's strikingly "green" Countywide Plan.

"Can People Save Tomales Bay for the People? Searching for the Answer." Pacific Sun, July 28-August 3, 1971.

"You Say You Want a Greenbelt? Here's a Blueprint Instead: Growth at Point Reyes." Pacific Sun, July 20-26, 1972. 

"Can We Save Another Bay? A Chance to Save Tomales Bay." Pacific Sun, July 14-20, 1971.

"Earthquakes vs. Marin." Pacific Sun, March 3-9, 1971.

"The Greening of Marin." Pacific Sun, Jan. 20, 1971. Proposed Golden Gate National Recreation Area.

“You Can Help Plan Point Reyes Seashore.” Pacific Sun, September 30, 1970. Development and preservation ideas for the new coastal national park.

“A Park for East Marin.” December 23, 1970. Early call for preservation of the future China Camp State Park at San Rafael.

“A Chance to Save Tomales Bay.” July 14, 1971. Efforts to halt the deterioration of one of California's least polluted estuaries.

(With coauthors). “The Great Oil Spill. Pacific Sun, January 27, 1971.  Aftermath of a tanker collision in the Golden Gate.

Poems, criticism, reviews 

“Reflected Sun.” The New Formalist 7, no. 1 (Spring 2007): online.

 “Whatever the Sleeper.” The New Formalist 7, no. 1 (Spring 2007): online.

“Mocker.” Blue Unicorn 30, no. 2 (February 2007): 11.

"Jeder Engel Ist Schrecklich." Orbis 138 (Autumn 2006), 31.

"One Log Load: Revisiting Coos County, Oregon." Orbis 138 (Autumn 2006): 31.

"The Hospital: A Doodle in Triple Rhythm." Blue Unicorn 30, no. 1 (October 2006): 19.

"The Rebellion." Blue Unicorn 29, no. 3 (June 2006): 24.

"Floaters" Blue Unicorn 29, no. 2 (February 2006): 19.

“The Lunatics” (translation of Rilke’s “Die Irren”). Blue Unicorn 29, no. 1 (October 2005): 23

 “Note to a Former Student.” The Seventh Quarry 2 (Summer 2005): 5-6

 “Poem in Two Rhymes.” The Seventh Quarry 2 (Summer 2005): 7

 “Tree Farm.” Blue Unicorn 28, no. 3 (June 2005): 27.

 “Toast Funèbre.” Blue Unicorn 28, no. 2 (February 2005): 22.

 “Class of 1970.” Blue Unicorn 28, no. 1 (October 2004): 21.

“Chinoiseries: The Great Wind” (after Liu Pang), Blue Unicorn 27, no. 3 (June 2004), 15.

“Chinoiseries: The Cold Mountain" (after Wang Wei), Blue Unicorn 27, no. 3 (June 2004), 15.

“Sonnet After Deaths.” Blue Unicorn 27, no. 2 (February 2004): 36.

“Autumn 1999.” Blue Unicorn 27, no. 1 (October 2003): 6.

“Cat.” Blue Unicorn 26, no. 3 (June 2003): 21.

“Cosmological Bulletin.” Blue Unicorn 26, no. 1 (October 2002): 18.

“About Rosalie Moore.” Blue Unicorn 25, no 3 (June 2002): 6. A note on the recently deceased poet.

“Sonnets to Orpheus II, 4” (translation of the Rilke poem). Blue Unicorn 25, no. 3 (June 2002): 9.

“An Ode to Time.” Independent Journal 6 June 2002.  Originally published in Artists Dialogue, Summer-Autumn 1999.

“Exercise.” Caesura Spring/Summer 2001: 19.

“Pursuing the Modernist Vision: Lawrence Hart and the ‘Activist Group’ in American Poetry.” Literary Imagination 3, no 3 (2001): 386-400.

“The Primate.” Blue Unicorn 24, no. 3 (June 2001): 9.

“The Raw and the Cooked.” Caesura  (Spring/Summer 2001): 15-16.

“All Saints’ Day.” Blue Unicorn 22, no 2 (February 1999): 9.

“The Belayer.”  Anthologized in  Ascent: The Climbing Experience in Word and Image (American Alpine Club, 1999). Originally published in Aethlon 15, no. 2 (Spring 1998): 177.

“The Bivouac.” Anthologized in  Ascent: The Climbing Experience in Word and Image (American Alpine Club, 1999). Originally published in Aethlon 15, no. 2 (Spring 1998): 179-80.

 “Exposure.” Anthologized in  Ascent: The Climbing Experience in Word and Image (American Alpine Club, 1999). Originally published in Aethlon 15, no. 2 (Spring 1998): 124.

“Night Rappel.” Anthologized in Ascent: The Climbing Experience in Word and Image (American Alpine Club, 1999). Originally published in Interim 8, no. 1 (Spring 1989): 3.

“Storm Camp.” Anthologized in Ascent: The Climbing Experience in Word and Image (American Alpine Club, 1999): 27-29.

“Tuolumne Granite.” Sonnet.  Anthologized in Ascent: The Climbing Experience in Word and Image (American Alpine Club, 1999). Originally published in Blue Unicorn 20, no. 1 (October 1996): 13.

“Load Carrying, Himalaya.” Poetry Tonight website, 1999. Originally published in Barnabe Mountain Review 2 (1996): 18.

“Writers Cramp.” Barnabe Mountain Review 3 (1997): 206-208.

“Declination: Entering the Ventana Wilderness.” Barnabe Mountain Review 2 (1996): 17-18.

“Fragment for the Alpine Dead.” Barnabe Mountain Review 2 (1996): 16.

"Apology for Climbers." Aethlon 6, no. 2 (Spring 1989): 90.

"The Faller."  Anthologized in Ascent: The Mountaineering Experience in Word and Image (Sierra Club, 1989). Originally published in The Poetry Letter 4 (June 1983): 4-5.

"Notes from a Rescue." Anthologized in Ascent: The Mountaineering Experience in Word and Image (Sierra Club, 1989).

"Retreat." Anthologized in Ascent: The Mountaineering Experience in Word and Image (Sierra Club, 1989).

"Evening News." Interim 8, no 1, Spring 1989: 4.

"Mount St. Helens." Interim 8, no. 1 (Spring 1989): 5.

"Incident Near Koip Peak Pass." Blue Unicorn 11, no. 2  (February 1988): 5-6.

Editor. "Down for the Drums, Up for the Harp." Marin Review 2, no. 1 (Winter 1987): 10-11, 22. Poetry selection.

"Annunciation (You will not think)." Interim 5, no. 1 (Spring 1986): 35-36.

"Jehovah at the Machine." Marin Review 1, no. 2 (Spring 1986).

"Kitten." Interim 5, no. 1 (Spring 1986): 36.

"A Memoir." In Learned and Leaved: A Tribute to Rosalie Moore, edited by Peter Sharkey. San Rafael, Ca.: Marin Poetry Center, 1986. 

"Fragment for a Blind Man."  In Learned and Leaved: A Tribute to Rosalie Moore, edited by Peter Sharkey. San Rafael, Ca.: Marin Poetry Center, 1986.

"Sketch for a Poem: Nightmare." The Poetry Letter 16 (Summer 1985): 6.

"Undertow: Poets-on-Poetry: Galway Kinnell, James Merrill." The Poetry Letter 13 (January-February 1985): 5, 8. Reading review.

"Audre Lorde and Denise Levertov." The Poetry Letter 10 (May-July 1984):  3-4. Reading review.

"The Discipline of Crevices: Poems of Yosemite." Western American Literature 19, no 1 (May 1984). Review.

"Hard Times." The Poetry Letter 11 ( August-September 1984): 1-3.

"Hiking the Bigfoot Country." The Poetry Letter 11 (August-September 1984): 6.

Untitled comment, Horan's "Litany." The Poetry Letter 8 (December 1983/January 1984): 7.

"What Is Poetry?" The Poetry Letter 6 (August-September 1983): 9. Contribution to panel.

"John Hart Replies." The Poetry Letter 5 (July 1983): 10.

Untitled comment, poetry panel. The Poetry Letter 2 (April 1983): 7.

"Runner Heard in Illness." Southern Poetry Review 22, no. 1 (Spring 1982): 19. 

"Along That Coast." Frontispiece in the author's San Francisco's Wilderness Next Door. San Rafael, Ca.: Presidio Press, 1979.

The Climbers. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1978. 

"Annunciation (Along that road)." Quanta 1, no. 1 (Spring 1978): 50.

"Cape Sounion, Easter." Quanta 1, no. 1 (Spring 1978): 51.

"Dream." Quanta 1, no. 1 (Spring 1978): 53.

"Easter 1973." Quanta 1, no. 1 (Spring 1978): 54.

  Imitation of MacLeish." Quanta 1, no. 1 (Spring 1978): 50. 

"Nevada, Sunrise." Quanta 1, no. 1 (Spring 1978): 55.

"The Mixed-Up Suitcases" (singing translation of Rossini's L'occasione fa il ladro). Several performances in San Francisco Bay Area, 1973.

"Confrontation." In Mark in Time: Portraits and Poetry/San Francisco. San Francisco: Glide Foundation, 1971.

"Eight from the Unicorn Series." Works 2, no. 3 (Summer 1970): 113-19. Review of poetry in translation.

"Clear Lake." Nassau Lit, Spring 1969.

"Confidence" Works 2, no. 2 (Fall-Winter 1969): 16. Translation from the German of Paul Celan.

"Iceland Spar." Works 2, no. 2 (Fall-Winter 1969): 16. Translation from the German of Paul Celan.

"Snowbed." Works 2, no. 2 (Fall-Winter 1969): 17. Translation from the German of Paul Celan.

"The Skeleton of the Day." Works 1, no. 3 (Spring 1968): 12. Translation from the German of Hans Arp.

"Spring." Works 1, no. 3 (Spring 1968): 6. Translation from the French of Tristan Tzara.

"We Sailed Long in the Ships." Works 1, no. 3 (Spring 1968): 9. Translation from the German of Richard Huelsenbeck.

"After Dover Beach." Works 1, no. 1 (Autumn 1967): 27.

"Departure." Ishmael 1, no. 1, n.d.: 20. Appeared 1965. After Wang Wei.

"Exile in Mountains." Ishmael 1, no. 1, n.d.: 20. Appeared 1965.

"Return at Night." Ishmael 1, no. 1, n.d.: 20. Appeared 1965.

"A Song of War." Ishmael 1, no. 1, n.d.: back cover. Appeared 1965. After Li Po.

“Stop-Short.” In Accent on Barlow. San Rafael: Lawrence Hart, 1962.

"Stop-Short on Toad." In Accent on Barlow. San Rafael: Lawrence Hart, 1962. 

Reports and works made for hire 

(Writer). Saving Cities, Saving Money: Environmental Strategies That Work. San Francisco: Resource Renewal Institute, 1992. What local governments can gain by going “green.”

(With co-authors). "Hat Creek Streamside Habitat and Landscape Plan." In H. Glenn Hughes and Thomas M. Bonnicksen, eds., Restoration '89: The New Management Challenge. First Annual Meeting of the Society for Ecological Restoration. Madison, Wisconsin: Society for Ecological Restoration, 1990.

(Writer). Eroding Choices, Emerging Issues: The Condition of California's Agricultural Land Resources. San Francisco: American Farmland Trust, 1986. Honored by Soil Conservation Society of America, 1986, and Natural Resources Council of America, 1987.

(Writer). The Marin Town and Country Club: A Proposal for a Fresh Start. Fairfax: Committee for the Community Use of the MTCC Site, 1984.

(Editorial consultant). California Tomorrow: The Next Frontier. San Francisco: California Tomorrow, 1982.

(Editor and principal writer). Water 1982: After Proposition 9—Where Do We Go From Here? A California Tomorrow Special Report (Spring 1982 issue of California Tomorrow). Seeking a new vision for California water after the voters' rejection of the proposed Peripheral Canal.

(Contributor). The Search for Permanence: Farmland Conservation in Marin County, California. People for Open Space, 1982.

(Writer). Endangered Harvest: The Future of Bay Area Agriculture—The Report of the Farmlands Conservation Committee of People for Open Space. San Francisco: People for Open Space, 1980. Honored by American Planning Association, 1982.

(Writer). People for Open Space: A Prospectus for the 1980s. Brochure. San Francisco: POS, 1982.

(Principal writer). California Land: Planning for People—The Report of the California Land Use Task Force. Sacramento: Planning and Conservation Foundation, 1975.

(Writer). One Hundred Years of Nature Photography: A Sierra Club Exhibit. Brochure. San Francisco: Sierra Club, 1975.

(Writer). An Introduction to the Sierra Club. 1975. Narrative script to accompany slide show distributed to Club chapters nationwide.

(Writer). Democracy in the Space Age: Regional Government under a California State Plan. San Francisco: California Tomorrow, 1974.

(Writer). A Popular Summary of the Draft Environmental Impact Report on the Regional Transportation Plan. Berkeley: Metropolitan Transportation Commission, 1973.

(Writer). It's Your State—Will You Help Save It? Brochure. San Francisco: California Tomorrow, 1973.

(Writer). A User's Guide to the Marin Countywide Plan. San Rafael, Ca.: County of Marin, 1972.

(Contributor). David Walker and Rowan Rowntree, Tomales Bay Environmental Study. San Rafael, Ca.: Conservation Foundation, 1972.

Awards 

Carla Bard Bay Education Award, The Bay Institute of San Francisco, 2003, for San Francisco Bay: Portrait of an Estuary.

Walking Softly in the Wilderness was acknowledged as a “Work of Significance” in the 1999 National Outdoor Book Awards.

Silver Medal in Californiana, Commonwealth Club of California, 1997, for Storm Over Mono: The Mono Lake Battle and the California Water Future.

Honorable Mention, National Park Service Cooperating Association Interpretive Excellence Competition, 1996, for Gardens of Alcatraz.

National Park Service award for excellence in interpretive publications over 32 pages, 1992, for Muir Woods: Redwood Refuge.

The David R. Brower Award for Outstanding Service in the Field of Conservation, American Alpine Club, 1992.

Silver Medal in Californiana, Commonwealth Club of California, 1992, for Farming on the Edge: Saving Family Farms in Marin County, California.

Conservation Community Award, Natural Resources Council of America, 1987, for Eroding Choices, Emerging Issues.

California Chapter Merit Award, Soil Conservation Society of America, 1986, for Eroding Choices, Emerging Issues.

Outstanding Planning Program Award, American Planning Association, 1982, for Endangered Harvest.

Merit Award, American Institute of Planners, California Chapter, 1972,  for articles in Pacific Sun (Marin County weekly newspaper).

James D. Phelan Award, San Francisco Foundation, for a poetry manuscript never published, 1970.