What creatures will roam Glen Canyon: Part 2
I drove north from Hanksville, past the entrance to the remote Mars Desert Research Station, to the Goblin Valley, a little known public landscape in Southern Utah. Goblin Valley is three miles of sandstone hoodoos, oddly shaped, like ten foot mushrooms, or an army of smurfs. I walk out into the hoodoos, looking for life.
Life here, approaching night, is a plethora of bats and a scattering of lizards. When I walk in the woods back home and I find the summer trails dotted with the little dead bodies of shrews – dead and defenseless - I can see and understand the bat. I can understand the unimaginably slight shrew of the sky.
