Gaining Perspective…Volume 6 Two Years in the Kingdom of Morocco By Charlie Kolb It’s midsummer in the High Atlas and the air is heavy with heat and light. Temperatures climb often into the 90s during the day, but stay in…
An excerpt from a new book from Utah State University Press SOUTHERN PAIUTE: A PORTRAIT William Logan Hebner photographs by Michael L. Plyler In 1990 the Kaibab Paiute turned down hundreds of millions of dollars by refusing to…
HERB RINGER came West from his home in New Jersey in 1939. Camera in hand, Herb captured the American West, from the Canadian Border to the Rio Grande and from the Big Sur coast to the High Plains. We…
THE BULLETIN BOARD of DOOM From Mudd, Stiles & The Heath Monitor Files About 90 percent of the aquifers underneath major cities in China are polluted. More than 300 million Chinese lack access to safe drinking water, according to…
The State of Nature…pt 1 The golden eagle was hunting, coasting near the ground. Seen from the edge of an ancient glacial cirque the eagle was a tiny brown motion at the bottom of a monstrous half-enclosed space. I…
POINTBLANK Why I Stopped Reading Newspapers (Including the Zephyr) By K Hancock EDITOR’S NOTE: A few months ago, I sent out an email appeal to my readers, not just for more financial support, but for more readers. I had become…
From the 1940’s Writer’s Guide to DEATH VALLEY NATIONAL MONUMENT To view this article as a PDF, click here: aug11-34-35 Don’t forget the Zephyr…
TILTING AT WINDMILLS By Dean Wooten There they are. Dark harbingers of the future Spread across the ridge from horizon to horizon Slowly turning long arms, malevolent as giant spiders, Creeping toward eternity. They call wind turbines green and have…