A tale of removing a bee infestation.
Essays
Posted inMay 29, 2017: The Cost of a Comeback
Anticipating the next ‘Big One’ in Anchorage
Can an imminent disaster draw tourists to Alaska’s largest city?
Posted inMay 15, 2017: Prison Town
Meet Ruth, who makes a home for the houseless
After her husband’s death, a woman collects a new family.
Posted inMay 1, 2017: Change Comes to Short Creek
How stargazing connects us
And how growing light pollution threatens that connection.
Posted inApril 3, 2017: Firestorm
A roadmap for nomadic love
One couple’s story of a long-distance relationship across the landscape.
Posted inMarch 20, 2017: The Tree Ring
‘Look for something white’
Discovering the North through its most iconic birds.
Posted inMarch 6, 2017: Uncomfortable Corners
An expedition through the Edgelands
This landscape isn’t always beautiful — but that’s what makes it loveable.
Posted inMarch 6, 2017: Uncomfortable Corners
Cowboys with surfboards
How Hanalei, Hawaii, reflects small Western towns.
Posted inMarch 6, 2017: Uncomfortable Corners
Growing up in timber country
A writer returns to the old-growth forest of her youth.
Posted inMarch 6, 2017: Uncomfortable Corners
Raptors in flight
Enduring relationships begin with encounters.
Posted inMarch 6, 2017: Uncomfortable Corners
The Yaak Valley’s ‘Dirty Shame’
In the infamous Montana saloon, a lesson about home in harsh places.
Posted inMarch 6, 2017: Uncomfortable Corners
Together we pause
Sometimes we need to stop — to think about the ways we wreak havoc in the world.
Posted inFebruary 20, 2017: Overdosed
The watcher and the watched
Observation transforms our bodies and minds.
Posted inFebruary 6, 2017: River of Healing
Naked in the desert
The sunburned, imperfect and deeper wild of the human body.
Posted inJanuary 23, 2017: For Which it Stands
Standing Rock’s men at war
By challenging our myths of the West and its warriors, Native men find their voice.
Posted inDecember 26, 2016: Obama and the West
A case of mistaken identity at the dinner table
The ‘turkey’ was oddly shaped, too small — and the meat too dark.
Posted inDecember 12, 2016: How the Park Service is Failing Women
Tolerance in Trump’s America
Amid fear and despair, we’ll have to find ways to talk to each other.
Posted inNovember 28, 2016: A Weird and Perfect Wilderness
Hope in a post-nature society
A writer seeks answers from Lake Powell.
Posted inNovember 28, 2016: A Weird and Perfect Wilderness
The captivating magic of a dry, dusty text
An encyclopedia-style book published in 1933 offers surprising perspective.
Posted inNovember 14, 2016: The Long View
Why we don’t mention my great-grandfather’s name
Aaron A. Abeyta on his family’s shadowy past in New Mexico