Caroline Tracey, The Border Chronicle
Caroline Tracey is a writer whose work focuses on the U.S. Southwest, Mexico, and their borderlands. She covers the environment and the arts for The Border Chronicle. Her first book, Salt Lakes: An Unnatural History, will be published by W.W. Norton in March 2026.
How New Mexico learned to love its ephemeral waters
In 2004, Michael and Chantell Sackett purchased a plot of land near Priest Lake, Idaho, in the picturesque northern reaches of the state’s panhandle. On one side of their lot, a row of houses...