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"A natural storyteller with a great heart that shines right through."
John Azzaro, President, Great Speakers Management
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A CALL FOR WILDERNESS STEWARDSHIP rally |
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Wednesday, February 10th, 2010
10:30 a.m. |
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State Capitol Rotunda
Salt Lake City, Utah
for more information, contact:
Terri Martin, Terri@suwa.org
801-236-3778 |
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This event grew out of the Faith and the Land Initiative. Some 250 members of diverse Utah faith communities created “Wilderness Stewardship” posters that feature handwritten personal statements about why Utah’s wild lands are important to us spiritually. Steve will share the podium with speakers from four faith communities as we present these posters to the Utah legislature and call on Utah’s elected leaders to support the stewardship of Utah’s remaining wild places. |
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BARGAINING FOR EDEN slideshow, talk & booksigning |
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Thursday, February 18th 2010 at 7:00 P.M. |
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Murray Library
166 E 5300 S
Murray, Utah 84107
For further information, contact Lindsay Roylance:
(801) 803-0125
LRoylance@murray.utah.gov
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Steve will tell stories from his book--recent winner of the Utah Book Award for Nonfiction and now available in paperback. How can we find common ground and recognize that we share more than we think, that we all have fallen in love with the land--and that we share a responsibility for saving precious open space for our grandchildren?
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FOUR CORNERS SCHOOL BIOREGIONAL OUTDOOR EDUCATION PROJECT Annual Conference |
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Friday, March 5th, 2010
7:00 p.m.
Registration required.
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College of Eastern Utah, San Juan Campus
639 West 100 South
Blanding, Utah 84511
Contact:
Four Corners School of Outdoor Education
P.O. Box 1029
Monticello, UT 84535
Phone: 1-800-525-4456
Or email Carrie Wheelock
cwheelock@boep.org |
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Steve will present the keynote talk at the 10th Annual Conference of this stellar group of environmental educators. The conference theme: "Celebrating the Colorado Plateau: Children and Nature."
Steve will tell stories from forty years in the desert that connect to the lives and dreams of children and young people of the Colorado Plateau. |
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HOW THE WEST WAS WARMED community reading & book signing |
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Wednesday, March 17th, 2010
7:00 p.m. |
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The King's English Bookshop
1511 South 1500 East
Salt Lake City, UT 84105
For more information:
call (801) 484-9100
or e-mail Jenny Lyons:
jenny@kingsenglish.com
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Steve will join editor Beth Conover and other Utah contributors John Daley and Chip Ward in a reading from an important new collection, "How the West Was Warmed: Responding to Climate Change in the Rockies." Beth has assembled a full range of essays that paint a portrait of the consequences of climate change in the Rocky Mountain West. |
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Archived Interviews & Podcasts Appear Below |
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Utah NOW interview: photographing Capitol Reef |
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October 2, 2009 |
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Utah's PBS station, KUED, interviewed Steve about his relationship with the Capitol Reef National Park landscape--a relationship that grows from 35 years of wandering the park with his camera. The Ken Burns series on national parks inspired this local program. Click at 33 minutes into the archived video for the 8 1/2-minute interview with Steve. (Those first 33 minutes are good, too: Bruce Babbitt, followed by a panel discussing the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance initiative "Faith and the Land.") |
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WALLACE STEGNER'S UTAH |
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beginning Fall 2008, statewide in Utah |
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In 2009, the University of Utah celebrated the centennial of Wallace Stegner's birth. Steve was a Stegner Fellow at the University of Utah's Tanner Center for the Humanities during the 2008-2009 academic year. Under the auspices of the Utah Humanities Council Public Square Program, he took Stegner's writing on the road across Utah, bringing those words home to the places where they started--for Wallace Stegner wrote about virtually all of Utah’s landscapes and stories in one or another of his books. In www.stegner100.com, Steve's blog from his travels, he celebrates not just Wallace Stegner but our interaction with his writing as a living legacy. |
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LASTING LIGHT: 125 YEARS OF GRAND CANYON PHOTOGRAPHY Photo Exhibit |
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This elegant photo exhibit opened at the historic Kolb Studio at Grand Canyon in Summer 2006. The show began touring nationally through the Smithsonian SITES program in 2008. |
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A new exhibit of work by 30 contemporary Grand Canyon photographers--including Steve--featuring the stories behind the photos, transporting the viewer into the lives of the photographers.
Steve wrote the text for Lasting Light, a book accompanying the exhibit that includes interviews with all participating photographers and a narrative history of Grand Canyon photography. Northland Publishing released this spectacular large-format book in June 2006. |
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GUEST BLOGGER FOR POWELLS BOOKS |
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July 21-25, 2008 |
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Steve had the honor to be guest blogger for Portland's great independent bookstore, Powell's. He wrote from Torrey, Utah--setting for many of the stories in his new book, Bargaining for Eden. His daily entries were filled with the adventure of publishing a book about a public figure, the wonder of sacred datura blossoms and thunderstorms over Capitol Reef National Park, and the inside story of the book. |
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BARGAINING FOR EDEN: THE FIGHT FOR THE LAST OPEN SPACES IN AMERICA : podcast |
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July 10th, 2008
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The City Library
Salt Lake City UT |
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Steve launched Bargaining for Eden at the main library in his hometown to an audience of 300. Salt Lake's community NPR station KCPW broadcast the evening live--and has archived the podcast. The climax comes at the end of the Q & A, when Earl Holding's representative rises to speak.
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WILD IN THE CITY: Wasatch Journal cougar story |
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May 2008 |
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Steve spent time among the mountain lions living in the mountains surrounding the Salt Lake Valley, on assignment for Wasatch Journal. The story, published in the Early Summer issue, has been featured In a panel discussion, where Steve appeared with cougar biologists and conservationists, and a radio interview. People are clearly fascinated by these stories of the fragile balance between people and predators where wildlands and urban areas meet.
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WASATCH FRONT FORUM: West Desert, Wasteland or Wilderness? |
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October 9th, 2007
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Westminster College
Salt Lake City, Utah
available as a podcast from Salt Lake's public radio station, KCPW
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West of Salt Lake City, we come to a place that few of us know intimately. What is our relationship to this space and what are its appropriate uses? Steve joined panelists; Cecil Garland, a rancher from Callao, Utah; Vanessa Pierce, Executive Director of Heal Utah; and Krissy Wilson, a biologist for the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources to discuss the future of Utah's West Desert.
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STUDENT CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION Conservation Commencement 2007: "The Anthropology of an Activist" |
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August 8th, 2007
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Charlestown, New Hampshire |
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Steve, an SCA alum, worked as a backcountry volunteer at Olympic National Park in 1972. Thirty-five years later, he was honored to deliver a conservation charge to the 3,000 SCA volunteers completing their service in the 50th anniversary year of the Student Conservation Association.
You can watch his talk online through this link. |
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