He found solace in growing fruit trees, but never quite made the Beehive state his home.
Items by Jared Farmer
Jared Farmer speaks in praise of Utah’s neglected “low country” landscapes – places like Utah Lake.
A review of "Stone Canyons of the Colorado Plateau" cites
beautiful photographs by Jack Dykinga and intriguing text by
Charles Bowden.
Thomas L. Clark's new book, "Western Lore and Language: A
Dictionary for Enthusiasts of the American West," documents Western
slang.
The 1.7 million acres at the new Grand Staircase-Escalante
National Monument contain a wide variety of landscapes, life zones
and archaeological treasures.
Utah's plan to enlarge I-15 in Salt Lake City worries some
environmentalists, farmers and hunters, who say the proposed
highway corridor includes lakeside wetlands and farmland.
Marines and Army soldiers help firefighters in the most
intense fire season since 1969.
Some Wyoming residents object to Superintendent Deborah
Liggett's talk of renaming Devils Tower to something less offensive
to Native Americans who regard the site as sacred.
Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt begins a partial
wilderness re-inventory of lands in the Utah Wilderness Coalition's
5.7 million-acre proposal that had not qualified under the BLM's
inventory.
The Forest Service wants to charge an entrance fee for the
popular Mount Lemmon recreation area just outside Tucson,
Ariz.
An uneasy alliance of local Hispanics and out-of-town
environmentalists protests logging on the embattled Taylor Ranch
near San Luis, Colo.
Yellowstone Park begins an open season on the
proliferating lake trout, in an attempt to aid threatened cutthroat
trout.
In one of the largest class action suits ever filed
against the federal government, 300,000 Native Americans are
demanding a full statement of their individual Indian Money
Accounts from the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
Southwestern drought kindles an early and fierce fire
season, especially in Arizona and New Mexico.
Robert H. Webb's "Grand Canyon, A Century of Change" and
Eleanor Inskip's "The Colorado River through Glen Canyon Before
Lake Powell" are reviewed.
The once-unbeatable, notorious salvage logging rider takes
hits from all three branches of government - but still remains in
place.
The polluting, coal-fired Hayden Power Plant in
northeastern Colorado agrees to reform, to activists'
delight.
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