The late writer and naturalist "Ellen Meloy wrote and recorded a series of audio essays for KUER (NPR Utah) in the 1990s. Every few months, she would travel to their Salt Lake City studios from her red rock home of Bluff to read an essay or two. With understated humor and sharp insight, Meloy would illuminate facets of human connection to nature and challenge listeners to examine the world anew. [This book] is a compilation of these essays, transcribed...

A guide to the Capitol Reef, Bryce Canyon, and Zion National Parks and the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument. The first part chronologically surveys the origins of the formations, structural features, and geological processes that have shaped the Colorado Plateau. The second offers road logs describing the geology of sections of highways and major backroads.

The newest addition to Westcliffe's series of wilderness area guidebooks profiles the state's 15 designated and 83 proposed wilderness areas. Illustrated by handy maps and Leland Howard's breathtaking photographs, the text couples Lynna Howard's wry wit with her meticulously crafted trail descriptions. The result is an eye-pleasing guide both functional to use and entertaining to read. Utah's several million acres of designated and proposed wilderness...

Join Utah's most celebrated landscape photographer, Tom Till, as he travels the length and breadth of Utah with his large format camera. Till's photographs celebrate the classic coffee-table photographic books of the past while breaking new ground with new subjects and stunning state-of-the-art printing techniques. Also included are extended captions by Till and essay by his daughter Mikenna Clokey -- writing from the perspective of a new generation...

Trespass is the story of one womanś struggle to gain footing in inhospitable territory. A wilderness activist and apostate Mormon, Amy Irvine sought respite in the desert outback of southern Utahś red-rock country after her fatherś suicide, only to find out just how much of an interloper she was among her own people. But more than simply an exploration of personal loss, Trespass is an elegy for a dying world, for the ruin of one of our most beloved...

Red Rock Stories conveys spiritual and cultural values of Utah’s canyon country through essays and poems of writers whose births span seven decades. First delivered to decision makers in Washington as a limited–edition chapbook, this book explores the fierce beauty of and the dangers to ecological and archaeological integrity in this politically embattled corner of wild America. These thirty-five writers span three generations, and many come from...