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- Terry published an essay in the October 20, 2003, issue of Sports Illustrated, entitled "Big Game: this naturalist's binoculars moved from deer to hawks to Karl Malone.
- Read a piece entitled A lesson in engagement from Mary Page Stegner, by Terry Tempest Williams in Writers on the Range, February 17, 2003, in High Country News online. May require login.
- The essay "A City of Salt and Granite" was published in the 2002 Official Souvenir Program of the Salt Lake City Olympics. Read it here.
- "Chewing Up a Fragile Land" is an opinion piece in the New York Times by Terry Tempest Williams, February 21, 2002, about what the Bush administration energy plan is doing to our fragile wilderness areas in southern Utah.
Another version of this article, entitled "Bearing Witness," with accompanying photos, appears on the Orion Society's website. Find out more about the Bush energy plan and attempts to protect fragile wilderness areas in Utah, on the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance website.
Comprehensive information and background about the threat to America's wild lands by oil development is also provided by The Wilderness Society. The July/August, 2002, issue of Mother Jones has an article entitled "Open Season on Open Space," by Bob Burtman, which details the Bush administration's aggressive move to
drill oil and gas on public lands across the West. Mother Jones also posted a web-exclusive guide to ten Western
wilderness areas currently threatened by oil and gas exploration, with maps, an analysis of the threats, and information on activist organizations working to protect the area.
- Essay "Scattered Potsherds" by Terry Tempest Williams, November 5, 2001, on the Orion Society's website in a section entitled "Thoughts on America: Writers Respond to Crisis."
- Article entitled "911: In Response to Place," by Terry Tempest Williams, about her experience in Washington, D.C., on September 11, 2001.
- Article entitled, "A Bow to the Caribou," published in The Wilderness Society's Wilderness Magazine, October, 2001.
- Terry Tempest Williams was part of a wilderness expedition team who visited Palmyra Atoll. View it online at One World Journeys, Journey to Palmyra Atoll: Rainforest of the Sea.
Palmyra Atoll is the last intact marine wilderness in the Pacific Ocean, and consists of 680 acres of land and
15,512 acres of coral reefs, emerald islets and turquoise lagoons. It's also the only nesting habitat for migratory
seabirds and shorebirds within 450,000 square miles of ocean. Undeveloped and preserved in isolation just above
the equator, Palmyra is one of The Nature Conservancy's most significant land acquisitions.
Join the award-winning web expeditions team from OneWorldJourneys.com along with author Terry
Tempest Williams, and Patagonia founder Yvon
Chouinard as they explore and document Palmyra's coral reefs, rare bird population and fascinating history.
- Article entitled "Clearcut," published in Sierra, September, 1999, about the legacy of breast cancer in Terry's family. (Available via Looksmart articles search engine.)
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Article about Edward Abbey. "He loved to be in our face. Still does, no doubt."
By Terry Tempest Williams, Outside magazine, October 1997.
- Article by Terry Tempest Williams, entitled
"Listening Days", on the EnviroArts: Orion Online website. This essay was originally published in the Spring 1997 issue of Parabola, Vol 22, No. 1.
- Letter
of solidarity by Terry Tempest Williams in Fall 1995 SUWA newsletter.
- Long piece
by Terry Tempest Williams entitled "Hiroshima Journey", from the Nation, Vol. 260 ; No. 19 ; Pg. 661; ISSN: 0027-8378, May 1995.
- Article about the Teton Science School, entitled "Hearing stories, finding family, returning home", by Terry Tempest Williams, published on the High Country News site,
Vol. 28 No. 11 | June 10, 1996. Includes photos.
- Article entitled "One Tree" in
Wood Notes Quarterly, Summer 2001. Originally published in Natural Home Magazine, May/June 2000.
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- Articled entitled "Guardians of the Redrock," by Hamot Manley, Sunset Magazine, September, 2002. (Available via Looksmart articles search engine.)
- Article entitled "Author draws from Mormon roots, Utah's beauty for inspiration," by Catherine Blake, Associated Press, which ran in the LA Times (December 9, 2001), and is also carried by other newspapers. This link to the Detroit News website, December 27, 2001, also has some beautiful accompanying photos.
- Article entitled "Seeing RED," which contains a review of RED, an interview with Terry Tempest Williams, and information about America's Redrock Wilderness Act.
The article is written by Katherine Eastburn, published in the Colorado Springs Independent, October 11, 2001.
- Audio Interview by Michael Toms of New Dimensions Radio with Terry Tempest Williams, on her experiences and reflections on September 11, 2001. Click on link under 9/25/01, Terry Tempest Williams. Real Player format, 10:30 minutes.
- Article in the Kansas City Star entitled "To singe our souls into action," about Terry Tempest Williams and the RED book tour event, from October 6, 2001. Includes the revised "Strike Moment" essay.
- Essay entitled "The Great Chorus of Woman and Nature," by Lorraine Anderson, which serves as the introduction to AT
HOME ON THIS EARTH: TWO CENTURIES OF U.S. WOMEN'S NATURE WRITING, edited by Lorraine Anderson and Thomas S. Edwards, published by University Press of New England, Spring 2002. This essay outlines a tradition of women's nature writing in the United States in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
- Article entitled "Terry Tempest Williams: the Emerson of the West," by John Nzalowski, in the September, 2001, issue of Inside Outside Southwest, a regional magazine, published in Durango, Colorado.
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Report
of Terry Tempest Williams talk March 2001 on overpopulation, in conjunction with the Public Interest Environmental Law Conference at the University of Oregon. Entitled "Creating a Life
Terry Tempest Williams raises the big issue." Includes photo.
- Meeting
with students at Mount Holyoke College, 10/24/00 about having Refuge as its common reader. Entitled :Speaking from the Heart: Terry Tempest Williams."
Includes photo.
- Review of Terry Tempest Williams'
March, 1996 talk at the University of Tucson, entitled
"Piercing the Heart."
- Article
about Terry Tempest Williams' talk November, 2000, at the Center for the American West, University of Boulder, CO. Entitled "Skyearth Letters: Consider the Earth"
, by Cherie Staples.
- Entitled "Getting it Right", a roundtable discussion from Sierra magazine.
Prepare for victory today: An eclectic group of environmental visionaries gathers at the
electronic roundtable. January/February, 2000.
- Article
entitled, "A Fierce Responsibility," by Stephanie Mencimer, published in Mother Jones magazine, March, 1994, about the public-lands debate, and the clan of one-breasted women.
- Information about the Center of the American West's Distinguished Lecture Series,
and Terry Tempest Williams' visit in 2000 as the Center's Distinguished Lecturer. Her talk was entitled "Homework: The Art of Inhabitation."
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