Blossom as the Cliffrose: Mormon Legacies and the Beckoning Wild

The sagebrush steppes, aspen-covered mountainsides, and redrock deserts of the West have long intertwined with the culture of the Mormon Church, whose pioneer settlers often viewed land as a resource to be developed and consumed. As inheritors of Latter-day Saint traditions become more numerous and diverse, a new view of environmental stewardship has emerged, one that suggests humans must care for the ecology of the planet. Blossom as the Cliffrose features poems and prose by writers who ar...