OSHER 829 - Utah Authors: Steve Trimble, Bargaining for Eden

We all love special places—but who should decide their future? In "Bargaining for Eden," Trimble tracks down the motives that inspire passion in two iconic places in the New West: a Utah mountain and its historic ski area and a red rock mesa on which Trimble builds a home. This is Trimble's most innovative foray into literary non-fiction, incorporating ten years of fieldwork and writing. Follow citizens in two communities grappling with change on extraordinary public lands in their backyards and see the conflict that grows from the tension surrounding politics, ownership, and patriarchy and the conflict between grassroots values and greed.