Bob Marshall was stranded in the rain 108 miles from the nearest settlement when his name appeared on the front page of the  New York...

Little Iggy Pup has been living with me here in Salt Lake City since my oldest daughter, his real mom, moved to Pittsburgh nine months...

November 6, 2024 — I imagine that this morning is not an easy one. Perhaps, like me, you are feeling sad, uncertain, hurt, scared, angry,...

So I will provide the feathers. I am staying as much as possible out of grief and fear. I realize I need to work harder on the...

Throughout personal essays spiked with humor and natural science, archaeologist R. E. Burrillo excavates his past, examining what it...

The former mining town of Clayton, Colorado, could catch fire any day. In the ten linked short stories of Defensible Spaces (October...

In 1875, Chinese miners were pushed off a high bluff over the Columbia River during what became known as the Chelan Falls Massacre. Amid...

Finding solace and connection in wild places, Jonathan T. Bailey lived two lives—one of trauma, the other of wonder. In When I Was Red...

Shaped by the windblown sands and vast horizon of the Great Basin, Phyllis Barber probes and celebrates her high-desert roots throughout...

A century after Aldo Leopold proposed the Gila as the first designated wilderness in the United States, First and Wildest (March 2022)...