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The thousands of RVers who gather in Quartzsite, Ariz., every winter create in an impromptu community that might as well be in a Wal-Mart parking lot.
by Jonathan Thompson ,
Mar 15, 2010
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Every winter in Quartzsite, Ariz., tens of thousands of RVers form an impromptu community in the desert.
by Nate Berg,
Mar 15, 2010
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Is it possible to develop large-scale solar projects and transmission lines without sacrificing the West’s wide-open landscapes and deserts?
by Sarah Gilman ,
May 15, 2009
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The essays in Gary Paul Nabhan’s Arab/American
celebrate the landscape, culture and cuisine of two great deserts:
The Middle Eastern lands from which his ancestors came and the
Sonoran Desert he now lives in.
by Evelyn Schlatter,
Apr 14, 2008
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In his beautiful, compact book Working Wilderness, Nathan
Sayres tells the story of the Malpai Borderlands Group, “the
most hailed example of collaborative place-based resource
management in the West.”
by Paul Larmer,
Apr 30, 2007
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A Westerner makes the disconcerting discovery that as we
age, the high, dry West we love isn't so good for our
moisture-loving bodies, and the only cure is a trip to the
beach.
by Ted Kerasote,
Feb 19, 2007
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In Sunshot: Peril and Wonder in the Grand
Desierto, writer Bill Broyles and photographer Michael
Berman explore the gritty desert on the U.S.-Mexico
borderlands
by Michelle Pulich Stewart,
Dec 11, 2006
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A 61-year-old hiker and two middle-aged friends take an
epic hike through Arizona in David Roberts’ new book,
Sandstone Spine
by Lee Ross,
Oct 16, 2006
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In No Country for Old Men, Cormac
McCarthy discards his bitter nostalgia to tell a story set along
the border in the 1980s
by Laura Paskus,
May 15, 2006
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A long solitary hike through an empty, pristine desert is
interrupted by a close encounter with an F-16 fighter
plane
by Craig Childs,
May 01, 2006
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