The courtship ritual of the Sage-Grouse is the stuff of legend. Loss of sagebrush territory has led to depopulation prompting conservation efforts.

Announcing the Release of EARTH

Nearly seven years in the making, EARTH is a newly published anthology of sacred texts and environmental literature selected, introduced, and illuminated by Diana Wege.

Uniting religion and ecology on the same side, EARTH contains eight sacred texts of major world religions followed by eleven seminal works by renowned environmentalists, reprinted in their entirety. The first page of each book features illuminations after masters of landscape painting and hand calligraphy in the style of a holy manuscript. Verse numbers appear throughout the texts in both the religious and environmental writings, for readers to cite and study.

The first printing is a limited edition artist book featuring hand-drawn page end illuminations by the artist. Several will be donated where they will be publicly accessible, one will be offered for sale, and one will be retained by the artist for use in public readings.

We ❤️ this free bird identification app from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, with an ever growing database curated by Ornithology students. In addition to visual identification tools and information about species, it also contains bird call recordings sourced from Cornell's Macaulay Library to further assist your birding quests.

Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place by Terry Tempest Williams

Terry Tempest Williams worked as curator of education and naturalist-in-residence at the Utah Museum of Natural History in Salt Lake City from 1981-1996. A naturalist and fierce advocate for freedom of speech, she has consistently shown us how environmental issues are social issues that ultimately become matters of justice. "So here is my question," she asks, "what might a different kind of power look like, feel like, and can power be redistributed equitably even beyond our own species?"

Williams, like her writing, cannot be categorized. She has testified before Congress on women’s health issues, been a guest at the White House, has camped in the remote regions of Utah and Alaska wildernesses and worked as "a barefoot artist" in Rwanda.