The anthropology of turquoise

By Ellen Meloy

"Neurobiologists say that our sensitivity to color begins when we are infants. For artist-naturalist Ellen Meloy, who has spent most of her life in wild, remote places, an intoxication with light a...

Eating stone

By Ellen Meloy

The Anthropology of Turquoise

By Ellen Meloy

In this invigorating mix of natural history and adventure, artist-naturalist Ellen Meloy uses turquoise—the color and the gem—to probe deeper into our profound human attachment to landscape. F...

Last Bit Bear

By Sandra Chisholm Robinson

Raven s Exile

By Ellen Meloy

The last cheater's waltz

By Ellen Meloy

"Ellen Meloy describes a corner of desert hard by the San Juan River in southeastern Utah, a place long forsaken as implausible and impassable, of little use or value - a place that she calls home....

Raven's exile

By Ellen Meloy

The last cheater's waltz

By Ellen Meloy

Raven's exile

By Ellen Meloy

Eating Stone

By Ellen Meloy

Long believed to be disappearing and possibly even extinct, the Southwestern bighorn sheep of Utah’s canyonlands have made a surprising comeback. Naturalist Ellen Meloy tracks a band of the...