by Mark Duggan | May 29, 2017
The Center of Southwest Studies website immediately gives a sense of the organization’s sizeable regional scope, from the logo image of the Superstition Mountains east of Phoenix to the historic mining photographs of Ouray and Silverton, Colo. Clicking around, you’ll...
by Mark Duggan | May 23, 2017
A photographic essay by Mark Duggan. On August 5, 2015, the toxic secrets of The Gold King Mine high in the San Juan Mountains of Colorado spilled forth when workers breached a plug containing mine wastes. Three million gallons of heavy metals-laden wastewater spilled...
by Mark Duggan | Aug 2, 2016
Two proposals are competing on managing a large swath of federal land in southeast Utah. One calls for the creation, through presidential proclamation, of what would be known as Bear’s Ears National Monument. A multi-tribe coalition supports the monument,...
by Mark Duggan | Jan 1, 2013
Phoenix – Wade Davis has what some consider a dream job: Explorer-In-Residence for the National Geographic Society. Tough gig. A recent assignment took him down the Grand Canyon of the Colorado River in search of the wild heart of what many say is a tamed...
by Mark Duggan | Oct 11, 2011
Tucson, Ariz. – Hopi legend holds that their 14th Century ancestors were so enamored with the fertile area along the Little Colorado River east of Winslow, Ariz., that they paused in their migration to farm the land. Their name for the site, Homolovi, means...
