He has conducted long-term ethnographic fieldwork on Euro-American hunters in rural Vermont, which resulted in a recent book, A Matter of Life and Death: Hunting in Contemporary Vermont (2009); and ethnohistorical work on Native American sacred places. Currently, he is investigating the ways that understandings of human-environment relationships and whiteness coalesce to construct local identities in rural America, and finishing up an extended theoretical piece on the essentialization of "Western human-nature relations"--what he refers to as ecological occidentalism.