a wilderness journal

At the end of my trip through the southwest, I shifted from National Parks and lizards and desert wildflowers to marine life of the central...

A Joshua Tree in the lower Black Rock Canyon. Joshua Tree National Park was the final NPS stop on my April loop through the Southwest....

After backpacking for a night in the Petrified Forest, the rest of my time in northern Arizona was a bit of a whirlwind of short visits to ...

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...