Coastal Lifeblood
“I heard one day we will have to talk about salmon as something we only ate when we were young because it is no more,” an elder told me...
Dear Secretary Zinke..
Utah's congressional delegation opposes national monuments, especially Bears Ears National Monument and Grand Staircase-Escalante...
Beings of Resistance: Mixed Race in the Climate Justice Movement
“Like all people, we perceive the version of reality that our culture communicates. Like others having or living in more than one...
When Inaction is Not an Option
Aggravated assault. Reckless endangerment. Unlawful trail damage. Illegal logging. Obstructing a public thoroughfare. At 82 years old,...
Bridges in the Dark
Dad at his Alpenglow Observatory, Salt Lake City, August 2016 Last August I received a call from my 83-year-old mother. “Your father...
Breathing Room
The wind kicks up below the dam on days like this, stirring the 106-degree air into a convection oven. I clap a red hardhat on my head...
A year with the Great Salt Lake
In uncertainty I had to create. That's why I first stood on the salted shores of the Great Salt Lake. Its low waters rang, its wind...
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...
Post Election Within COP22
At 6 AM in Marrakech, Morocco, SustainUS delegation leader Morgan Curtis gently woke me up. She told me Trump was closing in on winning...
What I Learned at Bears Ears
Two iconic buttes punctuating 1.9 million acres of awesome. The Bears Ears National Monument as proposed by the Bears Ears Inter-Tribal...