Bending the Arc toward the Light

Over the course of the past several years Capitol Reef National Park has become one of my favorite public lands from among the many that we share. It is a wonderful amalgam of human and natural history in one of the most beautiful settings the Colorado Plateau has to...

A Journey Begins

Northeastward from Newfound Gap the Appalachian Trail rises around the southeastern face of Mount Ambler, while US 441, Newfound Gap Road, wraps around the western slopes of the mountain before descending into the valley where West Prong of the Little Pigeon forms on...

A Scorched Earth Policy

Seventy million years ago the northwestern corner of New Mexico, south of what is now the fossil fuel mecca of Farmington was the delta of a river which flowed eastward into an inland sea that covered most of what is now the Enchanted State. Somewhere in geologic time...

Moonrise Over Mitten

Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park is a sacred, special place. Located along the northeastern border of Arizona and  southeastern Utah, and wholly within the Navajo (Dine) Nation, it is a land of massive sandstone buttes and mesas enfolding five square miles of lithic...