A conversation with Leigh Kuwanwisiwma, Hopi elder.
Bear's Ears, Part Four: The Hopi Way
Comb Wash
Bear's Ears, Part Three: The Sand Island Petroglyphs
Bear's Ears, Part Two
Bear Ears Buttes in the background. Looking north from the top of Cedar Mesa, San Juan County, Utah. Elevation 7000 feet.
A conversation with author Terry Tempest Williams about the source of the problem in the battle over public lands in southern Utah.
Click here for a link to some of Terry's work.
Music by Glenn Gould playing Bach's Goldberg Variations.
Bears Ears from the west. In the foreground is one of the many sandstone canyons draining Cedar Mesa. Elevation 5000 feet.
The bridge over the Colorado River where it becomes Lake Powell, Hite Crossing. Elevation 4000 feet.
Bear's Ears, Part One
Looking south towards the Navajo Reservation from the top of Cedar Ridge, Utah.
The first in a series of reports about the controversy over public land in southern Utah, plus a story by radio genius Joe Frank, who passed away January 15, 2018.
Two More Stories About Mountains
A stitched panorama of the Salt Lake valley, from the north end.
Ski Lesson
I don't know who took this photo, but it sure is a good one. Maybe it's Thor.
Something to get your mind off the sorry state of affairs these days.
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The Bicycle Artist
One of Grant Petersen's personal bicycles.
An interview with Grant Petersen of Rivendell Bicycles Works in Walnut Creek, California.
Music: Slow Bicycle by Mum
One of Grant's Bridgestone bikes
War of the Worlds
This is a Halloween special for people who have not heard the original 1938 CBS broadcast.
Basin and Range
We Thought It Was a Movie
NFL Sunday
A short commentary on the protests.
The Oracle
My friend Alex and I try to visit the Utah Data Center, 20 miles south of my house in Salt Lake City.
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Check out The Sonosopher, a documentary about Alex Caldiero.
James Bamford's article on the Utah Data Center in Wired Magazine.
Music from the film The Day the Earth Stood Still.
The Continental Divide, Part Two
I try it again, this time with some respect.
The short clip of music in the middle of the story is by the Icelandic group MUM.
The music at the end is a North Vietnamese boys' choir, a recording given to me by Alex Chadwick.
The Continental Divide
The top of the highway through Rocky Mountain National Park.
The day before it snowed three inches.
The Green River
Paul Brennan, Creighton King, and myself at the Green River Lakes in the summer of 1991.
I thought, considering the recent mind-fuck of news, it would be good to play a relaxing story. This is a re-run from a couple summers ago, although I originally produced it in 1991 for Weekend All Things Considered.
Trump's Wall: Your Neighbor
An undocumented farm worker in New England, USA. Photo by Erica Heilman.