Selected Stories from Spring 2008

Wild in the City
Mountain lions hunt at the edges of the Salt Lake valley, where new developments anchor the foothills. Author and photographer Stephen Trimble joins trackers from one of the most experienced cougar-research teams in North America to get a cougar's view from the Oquirrhs.
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Into the Dark
Some come to Utah to climb cliffs, squeeze through slot canyons, or gaze at sandstone bridges. Writer, professor, and stargazer Christopher Cokinos travels to southeastern Utah to explore the Milky Way wilderness from the world's first designated "Dark-Sky Park."
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Fiction "The Space Around a Heart"
In this short story from Salt Lake City's Sylvia Torti, a woman rediscovers her passion for science and confronts difficulties in her marriage as she secretly works to discover the physiology behind the magnificent flight of the jackrabbit.
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Verse Desert
"Ghost Dance at Arches" by David Lee, Utah's first poet laureate, is a lyrical description of the desert as dusk moves into night and awakens into dawn.
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Green Utah The Tao of Farming
Growing organically--and spiritually--in a harsh land
By Chip Ward
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Rhythm Dressing for the Occasion
Utah's Opera's resourceful costumers prove it's not just about the singing
By Celia R. Baker
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