SAGE Magazine, a student-run environmental magazine at the Yale Forestry School, recently ran a photo essay of Western images submitted from students and people around the region. Here, we showcase a selection of these photos, which include beautiful wildlife photography and poignant illustrations of humans’ relationship to the natural world.
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Posted inMarch 19, 2012: Water Warrior
Street artist Jetsonorama tries a new kind of healing in Navajoland
In 1991, a young doctor delivered a baby Navajo girl in his backseat. A man had pounded on his door earlier that evening, his girlfriend in labor and his truck too slow for the 50-mile trip to the Tuba City, Ariz., hospital. The doctor loaded the woman into his own car, thinking they could make […]
Posted inFebruary 20, 2012: How Arizona's culture helped shape the shooting of Gabrielle Giffords
Photojournalist Lisa Hamilton explores rural California
For her project, Real Rural, photojournalist Lisa Hamilton traveled throughout California, interviewing and photographing scores of rural people.
Posted inJune 13, 2011: Under the Flight Path
Spring-cleaning the acequia: A photo essay
On an April morning in northern New Mexico’s upper Pecos Valley, before the sun lit the packed dirt streets of El Cerrito, Ricardo Patricio Quintana walked the irrigation ditch. He began above the first compuerta, a scrap-wood gate that lets water into one family’s field. Every six feet, he scuffed a mark in the dry […]
Posted inDecember 20, 2010: California Dreamin'
A long journey home
California tribe wants to bring back salmon from New Zealand
Posted inArticles
Colorado River blues
Photos and audio stories of communities that live along the troubled Colorado River.
Posted inJune 8, 1998: Don't fence me in
Waste Land: Meditations on a Ravaged Landscape
Preface by Wendell Berry It is unfortunately supposable that some people will account for these photographic images as “abstract art,” or will see them as “beautiful shapes.” But anybody who troubles to identify in these pictures the things that are readily identifiable (trees, buildings, roads, vehicles, etc.) will see that nothing in them is abstract […]
Posted inOctober 30, 1995: Nevada's ugly tug-of war
Warriors: Navajo Code Talkers
When photographer Kenji Kawano left his native Japan in 1973 for the United States, he had never heard the word Navajo. Twenty-two years later, the Navajo Reservation seems like home, and many of Kawano’s friends are Navajo Marines who fought against his Japanese relatives during World War II. The Navajo Marines, known as “code talkers,” […]
Posted inDecember 12, 1994: Shrink to fit
Desert Images
Phil Lauro of Dillon, Colorado, is not a fan of photographers who shoot mediocre images and then expound on how wonderful, creative, important and awe-inspiring they are. Rather, he says, “I just shoot whatever looks neat to me.” For “His bite is worse than his bark,” pictured above center, Lauro shot just one frame before […]
Posted inMay 16, 1994: Babbitt is trying to nationalize the BLM
Home on the Range: A Culinary History of the AmericanWest
To Catch Wild Ducks,Geese or Birds AliveSoak wheat in strong alcohol.Scatter where they are in the habit of feeding.Take them while they are drunk. * Early recipe book titled Cookbook private collection, ca. 1880 Coon Cake Take what flour you have, mix with water, shorten with coon oil and fry in coon fat. Army Coffee […]
Posted inFebruary 21, 1994: Draining the budget to desalt the Colorado
Navajo: Portrait of a Nation
Producing Navajo: Portrait of a Nation was a study in perseverance for photographer Joel Grimes. Grimes was a Belagaana, a white man, and his camera was seen as a threat by some Navajos – a way to take another small piece from a culture that has struggled to maintain its traditions. But with the help […]
Posted inDecember 13, 1993: Jack Ward Thomas: Hail to the chief
Western women wild with joy!
A look back at women’s suffrage efforts in the West. To read this article, download this HCN issue in PDF format. This article appeared in the print edition of the magazine with the headline Western women wild with joy!.
Posted inAugust 9, 1993: Now dust is his crop, says Nevada rancher
Quiet pride
Photos and quotes from the book Quiet Pride: Ageless Wisdom of the American West, by Robert Alan Clayton and J. Bourge Hathaway. To read this article, download this HCN issue in PDF format. This article appeared in the print edition of the magazine with the headline Quiet pride.
Posted inMay 31, 1993: Salmon advocates say: the quiet slaughter continues
Revealing Territory
Images from Mark Klett’s book Revealing Territory: Photographs of the Southwest To read this article, download this HCN issue in PDF format. This article appeared in the print edition of the magazine with the headline Revealing Territory.
Posted inMarch 8, 1993: A famous skeleton returns to the earth
Ask for me tomorrow, and you will find me a grave man
Photographs from ‘Scoring in Heaven: Gravestones and Cemetery Art of the American Sunbelt States’. To read this article, download this HCN issue in PDF format. This article appeared in the print edition of the magazine with the headline Ask for me tomorrow, and you will find me a grave man.