Articles
Can Anything Save the Drying Southwest?
Quite by accident a couple of weeks ago -- I was looking for a vineyard -- I found myself driving through the northern reaches of California's Central...
Postcard: Lake Mead
There is no shortage of ways to see just how short of water Lake Mead is. You can count the white bathtub rings of mineral deposits on the bedrock walls of the...
Big Splash in the Arid West
It ranks along with the Grand Coulee and Hoover dams as one of the century's costliest and most complex public works projects. It carries a price tag of $1.3...
The Grand River Ride
The first six people known to have successfully traveled the 446-km stretch of the Colorado River within the Grand Canyon were led in 1869 by a one-armed U.S...
The Colorado River: A Fight over Liquid Gold
The Colorado River begins high above the tree lines, amid the glaciers and snowpack on the western slope of the Rocky Mountains. Icy rivulets collect and drip...
Photo Essays
Going Deep: LIFE at the Grand Canyon
A few years ago, public television in the United States aired a marvelous, six-episode Ken Burns documentary called The National Parks: America’s Best Idea. The...
