The Salt Lake Valley is teeming with various wildlife, from coyotes and foxes to moose and mountain lions. Despite this diversity, the University of Utah only has one lab dedicated to studying these animals:...

  Utah’s west desert, dry, dusty, and barren. Sporadic small mountain ranges separated by playa that make up the expanse of western Utah, Nevada and California, the basin and range province is...

In the face of uncertainty, trust your gut. You wander from reason and calculation, tuning into your senses; the butterflies in your stomach, the hair standing on your arms, the unshakeable feeling of...

Todos Santos is a small town near the southern tip of the Baja California peninsula in the Mexican state of Baja California Sur. The quaint town is flooded by weekend tourists, immigrants from mainland...

Utah’s got some nice rocks, I think most locals or visitors would agree. Here in the great state of Utah, our rocks offer a plethora of recreational opportunities, from skiing in the winter on the...

First the rain comes down. Lightly at first, and then as the sky opens up, a full deluge. The sandy earth, reaching a point of saturation that it can no longer contain, starts to sweat out excess water....

Dear Granite State,             Not a day goes by where I don’t feel a tinge of nostalgia and miss your comforting forests of lush green and rivers of blue hues. Yet moving over 2,000 miles...

Fingers, chalked and clenched, cling to the rock so fiercely they scream for relief. Wind whips behind me as my right leg shakes uncontrollably, small pebbles falling each time I re-adjust my foot. I’m...

Roughly 20,000 years ago, the Earth’s atmosphere was shifting dramatically as an ice age which had begun 100,000 years ago was beginning to thaw. Geologists and Archaeologists alike believe that the...