Recalling Biblical and religious sojourns, Larson maps her own travels from the desert to Salt Lake City to New York City to Jerusalem, observing the life that curls in a leaf, the bug that spews cinnamon-flavored goo, and the water that occasionally floods the desert. Beginning with a Mormon-founded experiment in primitive survival, teenagers hike the Arizona desert while Larson shines light on the effects of prolonged exposure to the outdoors, to lands considered inhospitable to life.

Nominated for the 2020 CLMP Firecracker Award for Creative Nonfiction and the 2020 Association for Mormon Letters Award for Creative Nonfiction! Brooke Larson's essay collection Pleasing Tree explores the human relationship with the wilderness.

You must make a Qtr selection in order to use the QtrQtr box. The Qtr selection box divides the section into quarters and the QtrQtr selection box gives you a quarter of the quarter section specified in the Qtr box or, in other words, one-sixteenth of the entire section. These drop down boxes are used in conjunction with the Twn/Rng/Sec box to further divide the section into smaller pieces. You could put the same six digits in the parcel number field and click the parcel search button to get the same results. Township/Range/Section is simply the first 6 digits of a parcel number using 2 digits for each. You may further refine your search by using the Qtr/QtrQtr drop down boxes in conunction with the Twn/Rng/Sec box to divide the section into smaller pieces.

Enter a number in this field and press the legal search button to retrieve a list of parcels in a particular Township/Range/Section. The last 4 characters are only used if the parcel needs further description.

The next 6 digits are x-y map coordinates with 3 digits each. The first 6 digits describe the township/range/section for the parcel using 2 digits for each. The parcel number is a 16 digit number in 6-6-4 format. You may page through all parcels selected. A limited number of parcels are listed in parcel number order. If the number you are entering has all zeros on the end of it, you only need to key the number in up to the last non-zero digit. You will receive a list of parcels starting at the parcel number you entered. Enter a parcel number in this field and press the parcel search button if you are searching for a particular parcel.

Pleasing Tree by Brooke Larson