Issue No. 16 : The Living Desert

Spring/Summer 2005

Columns

• Guest Editorial : "The Living Desert: Our Most Valuable Lesson?" by Emily Brott, Sonoran Institute
• The Literal Landscape : "Chasing Wildflowers in El Pinacate y Gran Desierto de Altar" by Simmons B. Buntin
• What a Fool Believes... : "Back to Basics " by Todd Ziebarth
• Bull Hill : "Nightingale: The Bird of a Thousand Songs" by David Rothenberg

Poetry

• One Poem by Maureen Tolman Flannery
• Three Poems by Darren Jackson
• One Poem by Anne Whitney
• Two Poems by Lynne Bama
• One Poem by Luis Cuauhtémoc Berriozabal
• Two Poems by Scott Edward Anderson
• Two Poems by Tony Reevy
• Three Poems by Susan H. Case
• One Poem by Susanna Rich

Essays

• "Burning Man: Creative Fire in the Desert" : Essay with Online Slideshow by Scott Hess
• "Living in the Back Yard" by Scott Calhoun
• "Desert Bestiary" by Gregory McNamee
• "On Beauty" by Becca Deysach
• "Twentynine Palms: Prelude to a Kill, Land of Plenty" by Deanne Stillman
• "River Lost, River Found: The Colorado and San Pedro Rivers" by Tom Leskiw

Fiction

• "Breathe It In" by Teague von Bohlen
• "Cassiopeia" by Rita Kasperek
• "Moonbirds—A Play in the Desert" by Christopher Woods

Articles

• "Designing the Passive Solar Residence" by Rich Michal
• "Keystone Forests: Preserving Forest Wildlands in the Southwestern U.S. and Beyond" by Pamela Wellner and Bryan Bird
• "Desert Delicious: Indigenous Australian Foods for the Global Palate" by Julian Cribb, Yvonne Latham and Maarten Ryder
• "Making Green Design Affordable at Boulder's Holiday Neighborhood" by David Wann

Reviews

• Simmons B. Buntin reviews Various Modes of Departure, poems by Deborah Fries
• Todd Ziebarth reviews The View from There, short stories by Nan Leslie
• Terrain.org staff reviews An Obsession with Butterflies, by Sharman Apt Russell

Interview

• Architect & Urbanist Stefanos Polyzoides

ARTerrain Gallery

• Watercolor Painter Susan Meyer

UnSprawl Case Study

• Cohousing in Tucson, Arizona