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The Ivanpah Solar Power Facility in California’s Mojave Desert (Craig Dietrich – Flickr) America’s deserts are stark, quiet places, where isolation and the elements have long kept development at bay. To outsiders, these arid expanses...

I had a fitful first day in Death Valley a few weeks ago. I felt like an apprehensive Spencer Tracy when he got off the train at Black Rock in the 1955 film Bad Day at Black Rock. Whereas Tracy was nominated for an Academy Award for his role, I was distracted...

A day of challenges and marvelous two-track gravel roads brought us to one of Death Valley’s hidden beauties: Striped Butte Valley. We set up camp and watched the rocks get painted glowing red by the setting sun at one of the most beautiful remote...

Lake Tahoe by Eric Philbin When it comes to landscape and nature photography, California is one of the most diverse states in the U.S. In California you can photograph rocky coasts and cliffs, majestic mountain peaks, canyons, waterfalls, desert wilderness...

“Ocian in view! Oh! The Joy!,” William Clark wrote in his journal on November 7, 1805 as he viewed what he believed was the Pacific Ocean, as the Corps of Discovery reached the broad estuary of the Columbia River, 20 miles from the coast. Clark’s exhilaration...