The Sagebrush Ocean
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Experience an inspiring evening with author Stephen Trimble as he shares stories and photographs from his updated classic, The Sagebrush Ocean. Discover the unique landscapes and vibrant life of the Great Basin Desert through Trimble’s perspective.
Admission is free. Doors open at 6:30 PM.
Trimble spent the past five years updating his book on the natural history of the Great Basin Desert. His photographs and writing illuminate a landscape of sun-struck playas, surprising wetlands, remote canyons, and wind-swept tundra. He’ll share an introduction to the ecology and spirit of the desert country stretching from Salt Lake City to Reno, along with stories from his fieldwork as a writer and photographer.
This evening launches the book. It is the first in-person event, and the first time the book will be available for signing. The once-vast “sagebrush ocean” is now an endangered sea, diminished by half through environmental changes and human development. This decline drives Trimble’s updated text, which blends loss with reverence for what remains and insight into what’s at stake.
As a writer, editor, and photographer, Stephen Trimble has published twenty-five award-winning books during nearly fifty years of paying attention to the landscapes and peoples of the Desert West. First published in 1989, The Sagebrush Ocean won the Ansel Adams Award for Photography and Conservation from the Sierra Club and the Earle A. Chiles Award from the High Desert Museum. Trimble revised the text and returned to the Great Basin to photograph for this thirty-fifth anniversary edition.
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 makes his home in Salt Lake City and in the redrock country of Torrey, Utah.
More about his work: www.stephentrimble.net
Program partners:
- The Kings English Bookshop
- The Nature Conservancy