Table of Contents
Preface: The Turquoise Triangle ix
Map of Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monuments xii
1
The Cutting Edge of Time: Erosion of Home 3
Ode to Sanity 22
The Questions Held By Owls 27
Paper, Rock, Scissors: The Wilderness Act 36
A Totemic Act: The Endangered Species Act 48
Dancing In Place 61
Bird Blind 68
A Galapagos Journal 72
The Tellurian 80
The Council of Pronghorn 85
2
What Love Looks Like: Erosion of Safety 103
Operation Save America 135
This Happened: Erosion of Logic 137
A Public Bench Made of White Bark Pine 139
The People's March 140
Keeping Our Fossil Fuel in the Ground 144
My Beautiful Undoing: Erosion of Self 148
The Lost Daughter of the Ocean 165
The Brink of Beauty 175
3
This Moment: Erosion of Democracy 181
A Tea Ceremony for Public Lands 183
Nahodishgish: A Place to be Left Alone 191
Will Bears Ears Become the Next Standing Rock? 195
The Park of the Future 199
Heart of the Matter: Erosion of Fear 202
Four Letters to My Father 215
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Boom! Erosion of Belief 235
Bluebirds 239
A Deeper Vow 254
A Beautiful, Rugged Place: Erosion of the Body 261
Dwelling 288
The Resonance of Stone 309
Coda: The Liturgy of Home 319
Acknowledgments: The Kindness of Community 325