

Quarantine Ecology
In his forthcoming book, Behind the Bears Ears: Exploring the Cultural and Natural Histories of a Sacred Landscape , writer and...


Geography is Everything
Susan Imhoff Bird travels from her home in Salt Lake City through Yellowstone and Montana, exploring passions and controversies...


Wild Rides and Wildflowers: Philosophy and Botany without Bikes during a Plague
In March of 2014, Torrey House published a collection of essays, correspondence, and unforgettable repartee by Scott Abbott and Sam...


From Spanish Flu to Canyonlands National Park
In each installment of the National Park Mystery Series, author Scott Graham transports readers to a breathtaking national park. In this...


That Thing with Feathers: Hope and Literature in a Time of Pandemic
Sheltering in Place with the Quammens, a Python, and Prince After solitary months spent writing American Zion, Betsy Gaines Quammen was...


Fun and Games
Take a walk down an old dirt road along a springtime borrow ditch with Flagstaff author Mary Sojourner in today’s installment of That...


Conceptual Turbulence
This series, That Thing With Feathers, grew from Facebook posts. Not just any posts--these were from author and professor Karin Anderson,...


A Desert Dispatch of "What If's?"
Red rock desert, ravens, plenty of sky, and a shot or two of tequila appear in this week’s installment of That Thing With Feathers: Hope...


Defending the Narrative of Wildness
From my house in eastern Salt Lake County, I’m a ten minute drive then a ten minute walk to the Mount Olympus Wilderness—the big W,...


Walking into the New Year
You don't like to think the fall into a bottomless despair is too near and too easy and meaningless. You don't want that silence to grow...