Shannon Rhodes

This year marks the 15th anniversary of Wild About Utah! We’ll talk with four of the contributors: Shannon Rhodes, Patrick Kelly, Jack Greene and Mary Heers.

Did you know that Mormon crickets are not crickets, grasshoppers or cicadas, but large shield-backed katydids that walk or hop rather than fly?

I’m not a grandmother yet, but I will one day make a trek over Hades Pass again, gaze at the Grandaddy Basin below, and capture nature’s poetry with pen, camera lens and little hiker hands in mine.

Of all the lovely wildflowers to enjoy in Utah, Indian paintbrush has to top my list. The nickname “prairie fire” is an accurate one, highlighting the…

My father’s first caterpillar encounter has always been a bedtime favorite. The story goes that a plump fuzzy one was crawling on his picnic blanket one…

In Kathryn Lasky’s picture book “One Beetle Too Many,” we read, “Charles [Darwin] learned the names of everything he collected, for to know the names of…

Oft have we, my friends and I,Left cares of home, and work day woesTo find a haven, there cast a fly;And where we’ll camp–God only knows. Oft have we…

“Charlie climbed onto the bed and tried to calm the three old people who were still petrified with fear. ‘Please don't be frightened,’ he said. ‘It's…

Allow me to share an excerpt from my nature journal. “July 5, 2020. 6:10 p.m. We are perched on the east side of Buck Ridge, racing the sun’s western…

As a youth living minutes from the canyons east of Salt Lake City, I spent many Saturdays with my father carrying a backpack with sandwiches and his worn…