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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…

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…

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,…

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,…

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…

Up on the Blue River, in east-central Arizona, cow-country folk account Herschel Downs a respected gent. Herschel’s spread, the UP Connected, kind of leads a back-bush cattle community, especially in…

Editor’s Note: When I was discussing this month’s portfolio with Photo Editor Jeff Kida, I asked, “What can we do that’s different?” About 10 minutes later, he walked into the art department with a…

Edward Abbey once wrote, “Our job is to record, each in his own way, this world of light and shadow and time that will never come again exactly as it is today.” The first time I read it, I understood…