Firefighters are working to control a massive blaze that swept through the California desert and into Nevada. A wildfire of this scale is not common in the Mojave Desert landscape, known for its ...

His poems bridge the gap between nature’s wild expanse and the private space of one’s imagination. Dead Joshua trees in the Mojave Desert east of Baker, CA, 2022. Forrest Gander is on good terms with ...

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