cover image Stone Time: Southern Utah: A Portrait and a Meditation

Stone Time: Southern Utah: A Portrait and a Meditation

T. H. Watkins. Clear Light Books, $34.95 (104pp) ISBN 978-0-940666-53-5

The wildlands of southern Utah are a wonderland whose canyons, rock stacks, majestic buttes and mesas arguably rival the Grand Canyon in beauty. This region, endangered by mineral, timber and cattle interests, boasts a bewildering diversity of vegetation and wildlife. In this engaging photo-essay, noted historian Watkins (The Great Depression), editor of Wilderness magazine, gracefully evokes his excursions through a realm where ``stone and sky and water speak the language of memory.'' His black-and-white photography recreates the mystery and poetry of a region that, according to this eloquent brief, deserves federal protection as a designated wilderness. (Mar.)