Dr. Gwendolyn R. Lockman is an historian of labor, leisure, environment, and urban planning. Her current book project, Greening a Copper City: How Butte, Montana Reshaped Mining Landscapes Through Parks, 1882-2024, connects past patterns of land reuse and public recreation to contemporary park planning for toxic waste remediation. For nearly 150 years, people in Butte—mine owners, local officials, and residents—have leveraged parks as tools to fix social, economic, and environmental crises.