Publishes an introductory essay in Daniel Wolf's The American Space: Meaning in Nineteenth-Century Landscape Photography: “The end of the American Space is related, in ways mostly beyond the scope of the essay, to the two principal threats to life on earth—overpopulation and nuclear war.” Download essay The Adamses’ dog is caught in a coyote trap on a public dirt road. They commit themselves to finding a way to end the use of steel-jaw leghold traps and join with others in a campaign that succeeds, thirteen years later, in banning the traps in Colorado.

Publishes Our Lives and Our Children.

Begins a year of retreat in Astoria, Oregon. Composes the essay “In the American West Is Hope Possible?” in a quiet attic room, on a six-foot-long desk made of raw plywood and sawhorses, with a window to his right opening out over the town and the Columbia River. The essay is eventually published in To Make It Home. Download essay With Kerstin, buys a lot on a hill in Astoria. Publishes Summer Nights.