Stephen Trimble

Steve grew up with a well-nourished sense of wonder. After a liberal arts education at Colorado College, he worked as a park ranger in Colorado and Utah, earned a master’s degree in ecology at the University of Arizona, and served as director of the Museum of Northern Arizona Press. For five years he lived near San Ildefonso Pueblo in northern New Mexico, the home base for his projects in Southwest Indian Country. He has worked as a freelance writer and photographer since 1981. A 35th-anniversary update of his book, The Sagebrush Ocean: A Natural History of the Great Basin, will be published next year.

Articles

March 17th 2025

It’s still the West against itself

By Stephen Trimble

Nearly 80 years ago, Bernard DeVoto, the Utah-born writer and historian, wrote an essay titled “The West Against Itself” for…

March 25th 2024

Culture wars and an embattled Utah monument

By Stephen Trimble

Utah’s Bears Ears National Monument rarely leaves the news. The political tussle over this stunning expanse of red rock canyons…

Rainbow over Cheesebox Butte- Highway 95, photo by Stephen Trimble

January 15th 2024

A terrible dilemma faces the Great Basin

By Stephen Trimble

The long drive between Salt Lake City, Utah and Reno, Nevada on Interstate 80 feels endless, the landscape timeless. But…

Toquima Range from Monitor Valley, Nevada, Steve Trimble photo

July 31st 2023

The problem that just won’t go away

By Stephen Trimble

When I read the Salt Lake Tribune editorial on July 2, my heart sank. A Utah man with severe mental…

Ante Samarzija via Unsplash

February 20th 2023

It’s do or die for the Great Salt Lake

By Stephen Trimble

Last November, the Great Salt Lake, iconic landmark of the Great Basin Desert, fell to its lowest surface elevation ever…

Antelope Island Looking Over Great Salt Lake, photo courtesy of Michael Shoemaker

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Stephen Trimble

It’s still the West against itself

Culture wars and an embattled Utah monument

A terrible dilemma faces the Great Basin

The problem that just won’t go away

It’s do or die for the Great Salt Lake

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