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Show Page 12 THE OGDEN VALLEY NEWS Volume III, Issue V January 1, 2001 BOOK cont. from page 11 I wonder how inevitable must be such “progress.” We do have choices. If Weber County had turned just a few votes to the losing candidates for commissioner, Becker’s master plan would be in place. Its protective umbrella would shield the valley from that deluge of condos. Each person who cares about this mountain finds a way to address its changing story, to somehow exert power over how the land will be used. Money usually has its way. But not always. These include books, essays, posters, cards, a trail guide, a wildlife journal, and a road guide, notably Longs Peak: A Rocky Mountain Chronicle and five chapters in the The Sierra Club, Guides to the National Parks. In 1976, Trimble entered graduate school, receiving an M.S. in Ecology and Evolutionary biology from the University of Arizona in 1979. While living in Flagstaff for five years, he was associated with the Museum of Northern Arizona. As editor and publisher of the Museum Press for a year and a half, View from Mount Allen. Photo by Stephen Trimble. Photo of Snowbasin from Huntsville by Stephen Trimble. Trimble produced the quarterly magaAbout the Author Trimble was born in the Denver in zine PLATEAU as well as many books 1950 and roamed the West with his fam- and technical reports dealing with the ily during childhood, with his field geol- Colorado Plateau. This experience in ogist father as guide. He attended publishing crystallized his commitment Colorado College on a Boettcher to a career in books. His regional underFoundation Scholarship, graduating in standing of the Plateau led to The Bright 1972 with a liberal arts education with a Edge: A Guide to the National Parks of degree in psychology, Magna cum the Colorado Plateau and other works laude. His alma mater awarded Trimble associated with the geography of the a Doctor of Humane Letters in 1990 “for area. Trimble left the museum in 1981 to his efforts to make Western landscapes become a full-time free-lance writer and and people understandable and accessiphotographer. After field work as prible to the public.” The citation, quoting mary photographer for the University of Thoreau, recognized Trimble for having Nevada’s Great Basin Natural History the “courage and dedication to speak a Series, Trimble wrote the series’ flagship work for nature, for absolute freedom volume, The Sagebrush Ocean: A and wildness.” Natural History of the Great Basin. For From 1972 to 1975 Trimble worked his Great Basin Work, The High Desert as a seasoned park ranger/naturalist at Olympic National Park in Washington Museum in Bend, Oregon, awarded State. He also worked at Great Sand Trimble the 1990 Earle A. Chiles Award, a $10,000 prize Dunes National in recognition of Monument, contributions that Colorado; and “ p r o m o t e Arches and thoughtful manCapitol Reef agement of the National parks in natural resources Utah. While of the doing so, he Intermountain served his apprenWest.” The ticeship as a Sierra Club writer/photograawarded the pher. In 1974, 1991 Ansel Trimble wrote Adams Award to and photographed Trimble, for his first book, the “superlative use 32 page Great of still photograSand Dunes: the phy to further a shape of the conservation wind—a benchcause,” in recogmark of profesnition of his phosionalism in park publishing. After Photo by Stephen Trimble of the John Paul t o g r a p h s “extolling the sales of over terminal at Snowbasin. beauty and 100,000 copies of fragility of the Great Basin.” Trimble’s this original edition, Trimble is now on his second edition of the book. He has photo exhibit based on this work toured also written and photographed many to nine museums in six states before he other award-winning pieces on national donated it to the Utah Museum of parks from California to North Dakota. Natural History in 2000. His photo- graphs appear with Ann Ronald’s essays in Earthtones: A Nevada Album. In 1983, Trimble moved to Santa Fe, New Mexico, and began listening to Southwest Indian people—as a narrator rather than an ethnographer with a theoretical agenda. He was primary photographer and interviewer for Our Voices, Our Land, a multi-image overview of contemporary Southwest Indians at the Heard Museum, Phoenix. Additional books to his credit include Talking With the Clay: The Art of Pueblo Pottery— now a regional classic; a children’s book about the prehistoric Anasazi, The Village Blue Stone, with illustrations by Jennifer Owings Dewey and Deborah Reade, a “Science Books & Films” Best Children’s Science Book and a Notable Children’s Trade Book in the Field of Social Studies; The People: Indians of the American Southwest; and Arizona Daily Star. Other books Trimble has brought us include Words From the Land: Encounters with Natural History Writing; Noted With Pleasure; The Geography of Childhood: Why Children Need Wild Places, co-authored with Gary Paul Nabhan and named in Top Ten Non-Fiction Books of 1994; and Testimony: Writers of the West Speak on Behalf of Utah Wilderness (co-compiled with Terry Tempest Williams, 1995; Trimble also has a stock photography business that has grown from his book projects and his travels. His hundreds of credits include covers for Audubon magazine and INSIGHT travel guides, the interior of LIFE and Newsweek, Marlboro ads, The Nepal Trekker’s Handbook, and National Geographic and Smithsonian books. In 1996, he collaborated with Repertory Dance Theater in Salt Lake City, creating slide sequences for “Landscape Suite,” commemorating the centennial of Utah statehood. Mud Matters: Stories from a Mud Lover, with Trimble’s photos and text by Jennifer Owings Dewey, won a 1998 scientific American Young Readers Book Award and was named a 1998 John Burroughs Nature Book for Young Readers. Trimble won the 1987 Excellence in Journalism Award from the Educational Press Association. Trimble states that “The landscape interests me not as a research subject, but as home. With each project, I extend the boundaries of my home.” Trimble moved to Salt Lake City in 1987 when he married Joanne Slotnik. With Dory Elizabeth, born in 1988, and his son Jacob Douglas, born in 1991, they continue to live where the Rockies meet the desert—below the Wasatch Range, looking west to the Great Basin. ACCESS Realty Group Your Northern Utah Realty Connection 745-0551 Toll Free 888-489-0111 www.utahrealty4sale.com THINK OF THE FUTURE The Ogden Valley Land Trust a non-profit organization For more information Call (801) 745-2048 |