Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... We have few places left that represent the raw beauty and the history of our American West like Desolation Canyon, in my home state of Utah. It was ...

A recent “working” trip on the Green River in Desolation Canyon, and in the Desolation Wilderness Study Area, stimulated reflections on the importance and challenges of protecting wild rivers in wild ...

So you’ve run the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon on a private trip, after waiting a decade for a permit, then jockeying with the hordes of other rafters for prime campsites. Or you’ve done ...

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Five years ago this September I was fortunate to spend a week with a team of archaeologists who were surveying remote stretches of Utah's Desolation Canyon. Half the crew set off on the Green River ...

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This originally appeared on Earth Island Journal. On a chilly morning in April, our group of six pushes out from Sand Wash into the slow, silt-laden current of Utah’s Green River. Our guides, ...