a wilderness journal

Painted Forest, Petrified Forest National Park. Unusual events leave lasting impressions on the mind, and my overnight trip to the Pa...

Bandelier is a small gem located in the mountains northwest of Santa Fe in northern New Mexico . It is close to Los Alamos National Labs ...

Mesa Verde National Park preserves the pit dwellings, cliff houses, petroglyphs, and other structures of the Ancestral Pueblo people who...

Southwest of Arches in Utah is Canyonlands National Park , a part of the Colorado Plateau centered on the meeting point of the Colorado a...

Small Gambel Oak ( Quercus gambelii ) at right with Yucca (lower left). Cliffrose ( Cowania mexicana ), a shrub, at left in bloom and...

Landscape Arch (over 300 ft long!) in the Devil's Garden region of the park. At Arches National Park , one can’t help but be preo...

The Great Basin region of the United States is a series of alternating mountain ranges and wide valleys stretching across Nevada and west...