C.L. Rawlins is an editor-at-large for "High Country News" and has received both the U.S. Forest Service Primitive Skills Award and a Wallace Stegner Fellowship in poetry. He is the author of "A Ceremony on Bare Ground "and"Sky's Witness: A Year in the Wind River Ragnge, " and his writing has been published in the United States, Ireland, and Wales. He lives in Boulder, Wyoming.