Articles
Wade graham’s The Extended Field — Substack
Meditations and flights of fancy on place, environment, land, gardens, architecture, cities, culture, politics, and the overlaps between them.
recent articles
Utah is Killing the Great Salt Lake: Profligate waste and perverse tax incentives are drying up the West’s largest natural body of water. (High Country News, August 11, 2026); Also at: The Extended Field Substack.
The Coming Failure of Glen Canyon Dam: As Colorado River negotiations build toward a Feb. 14 deadline, few are talking about design flaws in the dam that holds back Lake Powell. (High Country News, February 11, 2026); Also at: The Extended Field Substack.
Originals — full-length essays
Vital City
Perspective Magazine
Read my monthly column: Wade Graham’s Walden in one of the U.K.’s most exciting new magazines, Perspective. Each cover below links to a PDF version of my column as it appeared in print.
Highlights:
Singer Katie Lee’s extraordinary passion for Glen Canyon (March 2022)
The erosion of our right to roam (February 2022)
Riding the underbelly of our cruel new world (November 2021)
Old constructs need reviving for new age of conflagration (October 2021)
Harper’s
Hidden Passage, the Journal of the Glen Canyon Institute
Wade Graham, Editor
Hidden Passage - Full PDF Issues