Essay What Does it Mean to Be Wild?: A trip to a bear den with wildlife biologists yields more questions than answers by Emily Arntsen – 8.17.2023 – 20 min. read In the doldrums of late summer, when the Book Cliffs are thirsty and barren, black bears clamber down to Green River, Utah, to feast […]
A thin haze appeared in the afternoon between our rubber boats and distant fins of burnt-orange rock, while a hot wind touched our faces, hands…
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My father and I hiked into Grand Canyon in 1961. I still remember my keen disappointment half way down the Kaibab Trail, when he announced…
Christa Sadler takes us on an aerial journey through the six sections of the Colorado Plateau.
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