How the West Was Won: The Sage + Westies Photo Essay
What happens when a magazine and a student group collaborate to put out a call for images that tell stories about the North American West? Inboxes rapidly fill up with muskoxen and lots of people gain...
View ArticleTalking Tongass: First Impressions from the Last Frontier
After several weeks of traveling, I’ve finally arrived in Sitka, Alaska, where I'm working with the US Forest Service in the Tongass National Forest.
View ArticleFed Up: Cultivating Elk and Acrimony in Wyoming
Every winter, the state of Wyoming feeds thousands of wild elk to protect the animals against starvation. But are the feedgrounds keeping the herds alive, or dooming them –– and tearing apart human...
View ArticlePresence in Absence: The Lengths We Go to Leave No Trace
While restoring an old ranch site in Idaho's Selway-Bitteroot to wild land, forester Shane Hetzler ponders what we are talking about when we are talking about wilderness.
View ArticleA Gurgle Beneath the Roar: The Grand Canyon’s Hidden Water
When it comes to water in the arid landscape, Laurel Hamers says we should be concerned about more than just the Colorado.
View ArticleAqueduct-walking in the Mojave Desert
Sayd Randle hikes with a filmmaker along the Los Angeles Aqueduct as they meet the communities impacted by the water consumption of Los Angeles, California.
View ArticleThe Greywater Diaries
Sayd Randle explores a different perspective of California's water crisis: the stories of Los-Angeles based home greywater system installers.
View ArticleHow the West Was Won: The Sage + Westies Photo Essay
What happens when a magazine and a student group collaborate to put out a call for images that tell stories about the North American West? Inboxes rapidly fill up with muskoxen and lots of people gain...
View ArticleTalking Tongass: First Impressions from the Last Frontier
After several weeks of traveling, I’ve finally arrived in Sitka, Alaska, where I'm working with the US Forest Service in the Tongass National Forest.
View ArticleFed Up: Cultivating Elk and Acrimony in Wyoming
Every winter, the state of Wyoming feeds thousands of wild elk to protect the animals against starvation. But are the feedgrounds keeping the herds alive, or dooming them –– and tearing apart human...
View ArticlePresence in Absence: The Lengths We Go to Leave No Trace
While restoring an old ranch site in Idaho's Selway-Bitteroot to wild land, forester Shane Hetzler ponders what we are talking about when we are talking about wilderness.
View ArticleA Gurgle Beneath the Roar: The Grand Canyon’s Hidden Water
When it comes to water in the arid landscape, Laurel Hamers says we should be concerned about more than just the Colorado.
View ArticleAqueduct-walking in the Mojave Desert
Sayd Randle hikes with a filmmaker along the Los Angeles Aqueduct as they meet the communities impacted by the water consumption of Los Angeles, California.
View ArticleThe Greywater Diaries
Sayd Randle explores a different perspective of California's water crisis: the stories of Los-Angeles based home greywater system installers.
View ArticleTen Sleep
For an audio version, here is Jesse reading the piece on his Yonder Lies Podcast. On a hot day in the summer of 2018, I woke up to red and blue lights saturating the white dolomite walls that loom over...
View ArticleRehabbing Rain
In the Shade of the Cottonwood Tree I was born and raised in the desert. Like most desert plants and animals, I love rain. I live for rain. I live because of rain. Rain heals me, as it...
View ArticleGathering Chips
One of my favorite photographs hangs in my bathroom. At its center is a wheelbarrow, with wooden handles, braces, and legs. The ten-spoke wheel is iron. Cow chips – dry dung – are stacked two feet high...
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