Coyote Crossing

Burning of sorts metaphorical and otherwise

The day before yesterday Annette and I took the Jeep up into the hills, found ourselves a shady spot in a jumble of boulders in Joshua Tree National Park. It was deliciously cool, perhaps as low as 95 degrees, and ash-throated flycatchers raised

Speaking of extreme weather in the Mojave

They’re having a bit of water over at the other edge of the Mojave Desert, in the St. George Utah area.

Zion NP is closed due to flooding on the Virgin River, and they’re evacuating towns downstream possibly including St. George itself. Again,

Son of Naming the Joshua Tree

Hey, remember that post I put up a few weeks back about how the story of how the Joshua tree was named is most likely folklore? The one where I said:

But in more than a decade of looking, I have seen not a single reference to the phrase “Joshua

Tell BLM to protect the Red Rock country

[As long as I’m pasting in activist alerts today, here’s an important one from the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance (SUWA).]

Please tell BLM Director Bob Abbey to overturn the Bush administration’s anti-wilderness legacy!

One year ago it seemed

Bonneville

I was heading east about ten years ago, having slept little in a motel room in Wells, NV. The Pequop Mountains rolled past, and the Toana Range, and their pinyons and junipers made me long to sleep beneath them, a dangerous sentiment.

I stopped

Review: Trespass, Amy Irvine

It’s not surprising that Amy Irvine’s erstwhile neighbors in Utah’s San Juan County have supplied some of the harshest online reviews of her book Trespass: Living at the Edge of the Promised Land, released earlier this year.  They don’t all come