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“Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit, and as vital to our lives as water and good bread. A civilization which destroys what little remains of the wild, the spare, the original, is cutting itself off from its origins and betraying the principle of civilization itself.” -Edward Abbey The seasons […]

There is a distinct purpose in my summer wanderings over the mountains and rivers of central Utah. Utah is a dry place and amphibians have never been common, but the last hundred years have turned the uncommon into the rare. Wetlands have been extensively drained as waterways are straightened and diked and dammed. The irrigation […]