Costa Rican sloth

How to Be Pura Vida

Since I started working at Backcountry in 2019, I’d wanted to write a story incorporating some of the Tico voices…

Sense of Dry Humor

As part of the Thrive 125 project celebrating Utah’s statehood, I was invited to contribute a piece of writing. I…

range creek

Beyond a Shadow of a Drought

Why did several Southwestern indigenous tribes disappear by the end of the 13th century? This is a mystery archaeologists have…