A look inside Running OutOn the high plains of western Kansas, there is no clear line between water and second chances. Although I didn鈥檛 know it at the time, I was in search of both when I turned my Prius off a two-lane highway and onto the washboard gravel that led back to...Read More
In Dialogue with Lucas Bessire and Emmet Gowin In聽The One Hundred Circle Farm, renowned photographer Emmet Gowin (b. 1941) presents stunning aerial images of center-pivot irrigation systems in the western and midwestern United States. In this short discussion with anthropologist and National Book...Read More
The water crisis on the High Plains The Ogallala aquifer has nourished life on the American Great Plains for millennia. But less than a century of unsustainable irrigation farming has taxed much of the aquifer beyond repair. Read More
