Utah High Desert Autumn Youth T-Shirt

North of Roosevelt Utah, the Aspens crowd into the wash where a creek flows during the spring or following monsoon rains in late summer, their roots seeking out moisture beneath the desert's crust. As your view moves further from the bright yellow of the aspens in autumn you see small evergreens along part of the slope and then grasses as your eyes move further and further from the wash where the water gathers. This area in the Ashley National Forest has been ranched in the past, and may still have a cattle lease on it, but no cattle are in sight. Along the horizon, behind the low hanging clouds more ridges of the Uinta mountains can be seen. This land was once part of the Ute Reservation, but was removed from it in the early 1900s as political pressure thousands of miles away caused the reservation to be broken up.

Joshua House has been described as a photographer, a conservationist, a historian, and an adventurer. Having traveled and worked extensively across the country he is currently concentrating his photographic work in Eastern Texas, centered on Houston. His past creative work has included research, writing, and photography for the Lincoln Home National Historic Site in Illinois, Homestead National Monument of America in Nebraska, and Dinosaur National Monument in Utah and Colorado. As a conservationist he has worked with the US Army Corps of Engineers, the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, and the National Park Service. His historical work has had several focuses, from Abraham Lincoln�s life in...