Emilie is a third year double major in anthropology and biology with a minor in chemistry. She has been doing zooarchaeological research since her freshmen year of college and after graduating she plans to pursue graduate school studying human and animal interactions. In her free time she enjoys reading, drawing, making pinterest boards, and national park road trips (where she drives so she gets to pick the music). Her favorite music consists of people who sound like they can’t sing or play instruments on purpose such as Modern Baseball or The Mountain Goats. However her greatest pride and most crushing anxieties are owed to her cat, Holland, who she is indescribably fond of (but that might just be toxoplasmosis talking.)
The ground is covered in white honeycomb patterning. The sky: a brilliant blue that stretches for eternity. Silhouettes of mountains grow in the distance as the sun burns the desert below. Utah, an alien...
I want to begin this article by looking back in time to an article I wrote freshman year called “A Moral in the Mountains.” In it, I reflected on a day out in Red Rock Canyon National Conservation...
How many kinds of trees can you name off the top of your head? Probably a lot if you really sat down and had a good think. Why is that? I’m sure you can’t name nearly as many grasses or ferns or bushes....
On the way home from Escalante, where my mother, my sister, and I had made a short trip out of a long hike to the Cosmic Ashtray, we took a small detour to Fishlake National Forest in central Utah to stretch...
“This is maddening.”
“A total joke.”
“You can’t even call it winter.”
To any Salt Lake resident reading this, you don’t have to be told what this winter has been like because...
If you spend enough time wandering the Wasatch foothills, you start to notice patterns of sagebrush shifting in the wind, bursts of balsamroot in spring and the way wild rose creeps along creek beds. But...
Forget ghosts, the only thing flying under the full moon in the months after Halloween will be plastic bags and candy wrappers. The holiday, like Christmas coming up next, was initially based on religious...
Illustrations by Emilie Bailey.
The Wasatch Mountains have played an important role in Utah's history. The mountain range was an essential source of water, wood, and granite for the early Utah settlers,...
Amidst this year’s summer films, few compelled and surprised me quite like Jurassic Park Rebirth. When first announced I was ready to complain about yet another re-boot. However, the first trailer promised...
What is “natural”?
Social structures organize the framework of our society and are intertwined with the very fabric of our own perception of the world. Currently, the most prominent social structure...
The first thing they don’t tell you when you move away from home: When you begin living on your own, you are expected to learn to garden in ways you never have before.
In the last year that I have...
