Photograph by Bruce D. Taubert
In a polarized world, where everyone has an opinion about everything everywhere and all at once, prairie dogs are rodents as Rorschach test. If you focus-grouped prairie dogs, participants would…
Photograph by Amy S. Martin
When Grand Canyon prospector Ben Beamer traveled to Denver in July 1892, it was big news. The Denver Republican interviewed him about his hermit-like existence at the bottom of the Canyon, where he…
Photograph by Paul Gill
Claire Curran Amid maples displaying deep red hues, aspens begin to don their autumn gold on the Mogollon Rim. This photo was made near Forest Road 115, which is…
Photograph by Bruce D. Taubert
Bailey Dilgard has a dead porcupine in the bed of her truck. That’s one of the things I notice when I accompany her down a remote, rutted road in the Apache-Sitgreaves National Forests south of…
Photograph by Bruce D. Taubert
JK: What can you tell us about “camera trapping”? BDT: For years, I’ve been using camera trapping to photograph hard-to-locate animals. I place a DSLR camera in a protective box in a location where…
Photograph by John Burcham
The Pioneer Cemetery at the Grand Canyon’s South Rim is a who’s who of early 20th century Canyon history. Of the roughly 400 people buried here, only about 10 percent are famous. But in some ways,…
Photograph by Craig Smith
When I graduated from college, my mother gave me a blanket, a blanket she had promised me for years. It was my grandmother’s, she said. The blanket was forest green, with patterned bands of orange,…
Photograph by Randy Prentice
Editor’s Note: It’s been almost 60 years since we first did a story like this. The original, which was titled When the Open Road Calls, ran in our September 1960 issue. The tour that year began in…