Carson Vaughan

Carson Vaughan is a freelance journalist and author with a focus on the Great Plains.

How to Think Like a Watershed

The Platte Basin Timelapse turns science into photographic poetry

By Carson Vaughan September 25, 2023

In this story: photography, water, saving wild places, wildlife

Marianna Wright, executive director of the QAnon-attacked National Butterfly Center, gets candid with Sierra

By Carson Vaughan February 5, 2022

In this story: borderlands, politics

One writer road-trips through the Great Plains, witnessing the effects of the eastward-shifting 100th meridian

By Carson Vaughan December 15, 2021

In this story: climate change