http://www.hcn.org These are the search results for the query, showing results 1 to 14. http://www.hcn.org/issues/42.5/when-you-carry-your-home-with-you-when-are-you-home 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. No publisher Jonathan Thompson recreational vehicles Quartzsite RV rally motorhome living sense of place deserts 2010-03-15T16:55:19Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/42.5/mobile-nation Every winter in Quartzsite, Ariz., tens of thousands of RVers form an impromptu community in the desert. No publisher Nate Berg deserts La Posa Long Term Visitor Area environmental news urban planning recreational vehicles motorhome living boondocking BLM land Quartzsite RV rally 2010-04-05T15:14:16Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/wotr/for-the-love-of-wastelands Is it possible to develop large-scale solar projects and transmission lines without sacrificing the West’s wide-open landscapes and deserts? No publisher Sarah Gilman solar energy deserts renewable energy oil and gas drilling western landscapes wind power transmission lines 2010-02-05T09:32:00Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/299/15561 When it comes to perfect starry nights, the West is always the winner No publisher Terri Likens Human Beings And Nature Stars light pollution meteor showers Perseids Leonids friendship camping sleeping outdoors Sonoran Desert canyon country deserts shooting stars astronomy 2010-02-05T09:25:02Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/282/15002 A new documentary, Making Sense of Place: Phoenix, the Urban Desert, uses the Arizona megalopolis to show what happens when urban sprawl is unchecked No publisher Jodi Peterson Land Use And Planning Phoenix Arizona sprawl suburbs growth and development land use and planning zoning deserts community planning urban areas 2010-02-05T09:21:09Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/279/14915 The writer travels from New York to Nevada every year, just to stop on one of the state’s empty highways and listen to the endless desert silence No publisher Jim Harmon Great Basin deserts silence solitude Western landscape car trips highways Nevada Extraterrestrial Highway Highway 50 Loneliest Road in America Deserts 2010-02-05T09:58:25Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/322/16311 In No Country for Old Men, Cormac McCarthy discards his bitter nostalgia to tell a story set along the border in the 1980s No publisher Laura Paskus Western Culture Cormac McCarthy No Country for Old Men U.S.-Mexico border novels fiction Western life border life deserts Vietnam veterans law enforcement officers All the Pretty Horses The Crossing Rio Grande 2011-11-11T23:40:25Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/321/16287 A long solitary hike through an empty, pristine desert is interrupted by a close encounter with an F-16 fighter plane No publisher Craig Childs Deserts Air space and bombing ranges Craig Childs bombing ranges deserts hiking silence Air Force F-16 sonic boom sound barrier personal history autobiography memoir Military 2011-11-12T01:04:01Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/345/16983 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.” No publisher Paul Larmer Chihuahua ranchers Movement reviews Arizona Working Nathan Sayres Malpai Borderlands Group Jim Corbett book Sonora mountains collaborative groups New Mexico landscape Gray Ranch deserts Durm Sanctuary Wilderness consensus land management Grazing 2010-08-06T21:50:47Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/298/15524 In The Hayduke Trail, Joe Mitchell and Mike Coronella give you all the information – and motivation – you’ll need to set off on foot into the Canyon Country No publisher Staff Camping And Hiking Hiking guides backpacking deserts Joe Mitchell Mike Coronella Edward Abbey Four Corners Colorado Plateau Zion National Park Grand Canyon Bryce National Park Grand Staircase-Escalante Glen Canyon 2012-03-30T22:11:03Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/368/17651 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. No publisher Evelyn Schlatter desert cuisines Arab/American deserts Deserts Sonoran Desert Middle East desert cultures Gary Paul Nabhan memoirs 2010-08-02T19:59:17Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/332/16640 A 61-year-old hiker and two middle-aged friends take an epic hike through Arizona in David Roberts’ new book, Sandstone Spine No publisher Lee Ross Ridge middle age autobiography deserts personal history Ruins Sandstone Spine Greg Child Comb memoir Recreation adventure friends backpacking Vaughn Hadenfeldt Hiking David Roberts hikes Indian ruins Anasazi male friendship 2010-09-24T22:52:19Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/340/16849 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. No publisher Ted Kerasote Grand Tetons Caribbean hiking Wyoming dry climates 50-year-olds skiing Margot Hunt dryness physical aging deserts writers health moisture oceans Bora Bora water therapy outdoor life beaches Human beings and nature aridity snowbirds Ted Kerasote swimming 2010-08-26T21:21:23Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/336/16737 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 No publisher Michelle Pulich Stewart Yuma El Arizona deserts Mexico Desierto Sonoyta Southwest C University of Arizona Devil’s Highway illegal immigrants Michael Berman Charles Bowden Sunshot Gran Bill Broyles Cabeza Prieta U.S.-Mexico Sierra Pinacate border Camino del Diablo 2010-09-09T20:25:07Z News Article