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For more than 25 years, John Annerino has photographed and explored the hidden wonders of the Southwest. His passion for photography evolved from guiding students and clients on “wilderness journeys…

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THE LAST REMAINING LEAVES on the Fremont cottonwood hold the sun as it slips through a notch in the Grand Canyon’s southern wall. Trunks and limbs, near-naked in the chill of late afternoon, lay…

The Navajos called them “Anasazi.” And, for seven decades, so did archaeologists. But, in the 1990s, a new generation of politically correct scholars proposed the term “Ancestral Puebloans,” and it…

When European immigrants ventured into the southwest corner of Arizona Territory in the late 19th century, they considered the Sonoran Desert a barren wasteland and saw little of value except the…

Glen Canyon National Recreation Area
Year Designated: 1972Area: 1.25 million acres (Arizona and Utah)Wilderness Acreage: None; however, 588,855 acres have been proposed as the Glen Canyon Wilderness…

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"I’ve experienced it by boat and by land. And personally, there’s more reverence in being able to do it on foot. [When] you go by boat, you miss…

NOT MANY PEOPLE find their purpose and passion at age 8. But Sierra Blair-Coyle is not like many people.
A rock-climbing wall at a local mall gave a young Blair-Coyle her first taste of climbing in…