The Sagebrush Ocean
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About the lecture
Author Stephen Trimble shares stories and photographs from the updated edition of The Sagebrush Ocean, exploring the landscapes and life of the Great Basin Desert.
Admission is free. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. This event launches the book and is the first in-person event where it will be available for signing.
About the speaker
Stephen Trimble spent five years updating The Sagebrush Ocean, his book on the natural history of the Great Basin Desert. His photographs and writing illuminate its playas, wetlands, canyons, and tundra. He’ll share stories from his fieldwork as a writer and photographer, and discuss the decline of the sagebrush ocean, which has been diminished by half through environmental changes and human development.
Trimble is a writer, editor, and photographer who has published twenty-five award-winning books over nearly fifty years of documenting the landscapes and peoples of the Desert West. First published in 1989, The Sagebrush Ocean won the Sierra Club’s Ansel Adams Award for Photography and Conservation and the High Desert Museum’s Earle A. Chiles Award. For this thirty-fifth anniversary edition, Trimble revised the text and returned to the Great Basin to take photographs.
Trimble speaks and writes frequently as a conservation advocate and has taught writing at the University of Utah. He received a Wallace Stegner Fellowship at the Tanner Humanities Center during the centennial of Stegner’s birth. In 2019, he was honored as one of Utah’s fifteen most influential artists. He lives in Salt Lake City and Torrey, Utah.
Event partners
- The Kings English Bookshop
- The Nature Conservancy