Water in a Dry World

From the desert to the forest and back again: a lifetime learning that the Southwest will always be a landscape with much to offer but little to spare.

10 min readJan 15

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Millcreek, Grand County, Utah prior to the flood of August 2022. See video below. Photo by author.

I have lived most of my life in a desert, though civilization invested a great deal of effort and money in keeping this fact from me. It was not until I moved to Moab, Utah…

Craig Axford

Written by Craig Axford

M.A. in Environment and Management and undergraduate degrees in Anthropology & Environmental Studies. Living in Moab, Utah. A generalist, not a specialist.

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