Sep 22 Weekly Poem: Carl Adamshick writes for the 'mysterious other' By Victoria Fleischer Carl Adamshick has been writing poetry seriously for 20 years and in most of the time he found himself with shorter poems. That’s what you’ll find if you pick up his first collection, “Curses and Wishes,” which won the Walt… Continue reading
Sep 19 Watch Should public lands be a natural setting for extreme sports? By PBS News Hour When an iconic geological landmark outside Moab, Utah, became the site of an extreme rope-swing, it captured the attention of the Bureau of Land Management. Officials are proposing a ban on rope sport activities at Corona Arch to evaluate the… Continue watching
Sep 19 What's your favorite Ken Burns film? By News Desk As "The Roosevelts: An Intimate History" wraps tonight on PBS, we were wondering, out of the 25 films Ken Burns has created, which would you recommend if you could only pick one?… Continue reading
Sep 18 Watch Utah archaeological site becomes protest site in federal land dispute By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Sep 18 Preserving the ancient ruins of Utah's Nine Mile Canyon By Merrill Schwerin In 2000, massive natural gas reserves were discovered on the plateau above Nine Mile Canyon in Utah, an area with thousands of archaeological sites and more petroglyphs than anywhere else in the lower 48 states. That energy boom has created… Continue reading
Sep 18 Tracking rhinos and elephants with Maasai rangers By Jeffrey Brown Amboseli National Park in southern Kenya is a small success story in a much larger catastrophe. Rangers for the Big Life Foundation track elephants and rhinos, looking for signs of poachers and responding quickly to reports of danger, or worse,… Continue reading
Sep 18 Watch 4:47 Preserving the ancient ruins of Utah's Nine Mile Canyon By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Sep 17 Watch Ken Burns captures complicated portraits of 'high-voltage' Roosevelts By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Sep 17 From marriage equality advocate to materials scientist, MacArthur Foundation names 21 new 'geniuses' By Victoria Fleischer What do a civil rights lawyer, a graphic memoirist and an environmental engineer have in common? They are all 2014 MacArthur Fellows. Continue reading
Sep 16 Turning negative space into a plea for environmental respect By Eric Schultz, NJ State of the Arts When one of Pat Brentano's neighbors in her upscale suburban town of Westfield, New Jersey, cut down 21 mature trees to build a gigantic house, Bretano was horrified. She used her anger as a channel for her creative work; Endangered… Continue reading