In the Shade of the Cottonwood Tree I was born and raised in the desert. Like most desert plants and animals, I love rain. I live for rain. I live because of rain. Rain heals me, as it heals and seals the cracked surfaces of sunbaked arroyos and limestone canyon walls. It peels back the membranes of seedpods, freeing them […]
Ecosystems
Ten Sleep
For an audio version, here is Jesse reading the piece on his Yonder Lies Podcast. On a hot day in the summer of 2018, I woke up to red and blue lights saturating the white dolomite walls that loom over the Ten Sleep Rock Ranch, the new rock climber’s campground in the canyon just upstream of the town of Ten Sleep, Wyoming. I had been […]
Flipping the switch: A clean energy future for Brayton Point? (Part II)
With the retirement of the Brayton Point coal plant, can this former coal town redefine itself as an offshore wind energy hub?
Flipping the switch: A coal plant retirement and a community’s response (Part I)
With the retirement of the Brayton Point coal plant, can this former coal town redefine itself as an offshore wind energy hub?
Women of the Wildlands
On the frontlines of the California wildfires, a group of women looks to redefine an industry.