Water
Parched
The Flagstaff Arts Council commissioned eight Arizona artists to explore the landscape of water in the arid Southwest in Parched, an exhibit on display at the Coconino Center for the Arts from August 2020 through January 2021. It’s now on display at the Amerind Foundation in Dragoon, Arizona. I wrote a sequence of four essays […]
A New Form of Beauty: Glen Canyon Beyond Climate Change
The quintessential landscape of climate change lies in on the Colorado Plateau: it’s Lake Powell, where no one can be sure what will be land, what water. Photographer Peter Goin and I collaborated on a beautiful book about a place where beauty itself is a question mark.
Southwestern Farmers Share Their Water with Endangered Birds
Why would beleaguered New Mexico farmers share scarce water supplies with a nondescript songbird? Read the full account of a new chapter in the West’s water wars in this Audubon feature, with photos by Mike Lundgren.
