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San Rafael Swell Last night we woke to the sound of coyotes hollering and talking to one another. It was a welcome sound. Living in a log cabin up a canyon on the Flathead Indian Reservation for three years, we grew accustom to hearing coyotes at night, yipping and...

Bears Ears If you haven’t been following the news, recently Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke recommended rescinding Bears Ears National Monument, possibly shrinking the protected lands from 1.35 million acres to 160,000 acres—eight-times smaller than where it currently...

Bears Ears We decided to move our invitation to public plein air with us event to a sooner date. We had one attendant rsvp, and he was anxious to get outside and create. Jim, from our educational event, joined us for a full day and night of Plein Air Public Lands:...

Rotary Park, Moab Utah The day of our second educational event! The night before, both Rex and I had intimidating visions of large crowds of participants, all noisy and needing a few quiet down attempts before we could commence. I’m not the greatest public speaker....

August 23, 2017: Moab There is a severe beauty of this intense landscape, an otherworldly quiet, with almost a passive harshness. The first plein air of the day started at the noontime hour. We again set up along Willow Creek Road. The heat rose off the arid...