Images from the Extreme Social Distance

I went back to the Home-country — i.e. the Four Corners — in February and March, and headed out to … More

Homeland, Dryland

For his entire adult life, my grandfather, Herb Billings, was a farmer in the Animas Valley north of Durango, Colorado. … More

It was like a sucker punch to the gut last week when the State of Utah sold off 800 acres … More

My High Country News cover story about the Bears Ears national monument proposal has finally entered the inter-tubes. For those … More

Beginning in late 1892, hundreds, maybe even thousands of men descended on the little town of Bluff City, Utah, nestled … More

One of the first “literary” things I ever wrote was a poem that began, “The Bears Ears, have you ever … More