Articles & Photography
PUBLISHED BY TODD SWAIN
Despite receiving a D in English 101 in college, Todd has written articles, reports and book reviews that have appeared in a wide variety of publications.
- Those Secret Crags (Summit Magazine, 1982)
- Without Rime or Reason (Summit Magazine, 1983)
- Without Rime or Reason (Appalachia, 1984)
- Sunday Afternoon in the Gunks (Climbing, 1987)
- Diary of a New Route Addict (Appalachia, 1987)
- Paine and Suffering in Patagonia (Appalachia, 1988)
- Non-Consumptive Use of Artifacts for Law Enforcement Purposes (Opportunities for Federally Associated Collections, 1996)
- Inter-Disciplinary Resource Protection Training (Crossing Boundaries in Park Management; Proceedings of the George Wright Society, 2001)
- S.S. Joshua Tree ([Co-authored with Jeff Ohlfs] 29 Palms Historical Society newsletter, 2005)
- Operation Indian Rocks: Conducting Interagency ARPA Investigations ([Co-authored with Tim Canaday] The Society for American Archaeology Archaeological Record, 2005)
- Operation Indian Rocks: Interagency ARPA Investigations in the Deserts of Nevada and California ([Co-authored with Tim Canaday] Presenting Archaeology in Court, 2006)
- Protect Resources by Working Together (The Wave [California State Park Ranger Association newsletter], October, 2006)
- Cultural Resource Damage on Public Lands: what the statistics show (Yearbook of Cultural Property Law 2007)
- How Do You Manage Your Resources if they are being Stolen and Sold at the Swap Meet? (Rethinking Protected Areas in a Changing World; Proceedings of the George Wright Society, 2007)
- The Search for Walter Poirier (Appalachia, 2008)
- 1.5 Score and 7,000 Routes Ago (Appalachia, June, 2009)
- Cambodia’s Temples: Angkor Wat and Angkor Thom offer an inspiring vacation (Capitola Soquel Times, Scotts Valley Times, Aptos Times, October, 2009)
- All Hands on Deck (Interior Shelves newsletter, Summer, 2010)
- Resource Protection (The Protection Ranger, December, 2012)
- Paine and Suffering in Patagonia (No Limits but the Sky—stories from Appalachia Journal, October, 2014)
- Summer in Antarctica (Capitola Soquel Times, Scotts Valley Times, Aptos Times, December, 2017)
- Working as a Mountaineer in Antarctica (Appalachia December, 2018)
- Scotland the Climbing Way (Appalachia December, 2019)
- Rongdo Valley, Ladakh, India (Austrian Alpine Club (UK) Newsletter Winter, 2020)
- The Exploder (Appalachia December, 2023)
ADDITIONAL WORKS BY TODD HAVE APPEARED IN:
- American Alpine Journal
- Association of National Park Rangers Newsletter
- Canadian Alpine Journal
- Climbing Magazine
- Common Ground
- Discover Magazine
- Hi-Desert Magazine
- Hi-Desert Trail
- Mountain Magazine
- Park Science
- Preservation Magazine
- Rock & Ice
- Summit Magazine
- Using ARPA Civil Penalties to Protect Archeological Resources on Public and Indian Lands
ARTICLES QUOTING TODD:
2023
Tahiti Infos (09/21/2023) “Todd and Donette Swain, between climbing and sharing in Ua Poa”
2015
New York Times (12/02/2015) “Receding Waters in California Expose Artifacts to Plundering”
2014
American Bar Association Journal (July 2014) “How Countries are Successfully Using the Law to get Looted Cultural Treasures Back”
2013
Via Magazine (July/August 2013) “He’s Out Protecting Our Cultural Heritage”
The Cambodia Daily (10/22/2013) “Looted Cambodian Artifacts Highly Desirable in US Art Market”
2012
El Universal (08/20/2012) “Mexico: Grand Route for Trafficking Antiquities”
American Archaeology (Fall 2012) “Fighting Archaeological Crime”
Wall Street Journal (11/02/2012) “Artifact Prices Draw Looters”
2011
Dario de Palenque (04/16/2011) “Article on looting in the Palenque, Chiapas, Mexico newspaper”
2010
Alpinist Magazine (01/2010) “Go East”
Preservation Magazine (01/2010) “The Inside Man”
High Country News (04/12/2010) “The Butterfly Sting”
2009
The Spokesman-Review (09/25/2009) “Tribal Artifacts Returned”
Federal officials hand over items looted from graves, other sacred sites
Associated Press (10/11/2009) “Prison Time, Felony Charges Rare for Relic Looters”
2008
USA Today (01/24/2008) “National Parks Robbed of Heritage”
Inyo Register (07/31/2008) “Parcher’s Plots re-telling of 1908 murder mystery”
2006
Williamette Week (03/08/2006) “Twin Tomahawks”
A brazen theft, old ghosts and Portland’s place in the creepy history of Lewis and Clark’s Pacific Northwest.
San Francisco Chronicle (09/17/2006) “Timber Poachers”
Fighting back: Park managers are cracking down on thieves stealing old-growth redwood logs
San Diego Union-Tribune (10/05/2006)
Parks try to curb escalating theft of redwood trees
2005
Los Angeles Times (08/29/2005) “Thieves’ Prey Is Prehistory”
In a unique and rocky zone, fossils and antiquities disappear from the ground
Washington Post (10/24/2005) “Poachers Looting National Parks of Treasures”
2002
Los Angeles Times (06/23/2002) “Chumash Sites Exposed to New Risks”
Heritage: Archeologists and law enforcement officers team up after wildfire to protect artifacts from looting.
Associated Press (06/23/2002) Archeologists worry about looting on Indian sites during fires
Los Angeles Times (08/17/2002) “Thieves,Vandals Chipping Away at Hard-Pressed National Parks”
Attractions: Short of money and manpower, treasured areas from Death Valley to Florida are vulnerable to abuse by visitors.
2000
USA Today (05/30/2000) “Thieves Go Wild on Protected Lands”
1990
Los Angeles Times (12/26/1990) “Their Hobby Is on the Rocks”
Serious Climbers Threatened by Those Who Would Spoil the Best Sites