When Cheryl Strayed was 22 years old, her mother died of cancer, her marriage was falling apart, and she was using heroin. She needed healing, and she found it by hiking the Pacific Crest Trail. This episode was picked by Doug Fabrizio.

Staff Pick: Cheryl Strayed, "Wild"

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For the acclaimed writer and environmental activist Rick Bass, there are no hard lines between life, art and the natural world.

Celebrating the Natural World with Writer Rick Bass

In 1888, the daily Salt Lake Herald-Republican reprinted a story from a Canadian paper. The headline? That a family of whales was flourishing in the Great Salt Lake.

Whales of the High Desert

If you live in the Salt Lake Valley, you know a thing or two about air pollution. There are days when you can see it. But if you live on the west side it’s even worse.

Breathing Salt Lake’s West Side Air

If you got a poet, a neuroscientist and a theoretical physicist together to talk about beauty, what would they possibly have to say to each other?

Mere Beauty: Utah Symposium on Science and Literature

Hotshots are the hardened individuals who fight wildfires. Gabriel Mann’s new film gets viewers as close to the fire line as you can be without becoming a hotshot yourself.

Staff Pick: Cheryl Strayed, "Wild"

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