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Trump axes Public Lands Rule
The Hoback River after a storm as it meets up with the Snake River. Bob Frodeman photo.
The Hoback Report
by Bob Frodeman
The weather has been odd this year on the southern side of the Yellowstone Plateau. And summer is setting up to b...
Data Center Watch: Stratos project edition
📸 Opening Shot 🎞️
A train loads up at the West Elk coal mine near Somerset, Colorado. Like the rest of the coal industry, the West Elk’s days appeared to be numbered a decade ago. But growing power demand from data centers and the...
Lisbon Valley Mine reopens with AI, robots
⛏️ Mining Monitor ⛏️
A (presumably) autonomous mine haul truck at Mariana Mineral’s newly acquired Lisbon Valley copper mine in southeastern Utah. Jonathan P. Thompson photo.
Every six months or so I like to do a recon of the Lisbo...
MAYDAY! Snowpack Report
⛈️ Wacky Weather Watch⚡️
Muddy Creek living up to its name just before it runs into Paonia Reservoir, which was about 70% full on April 30. Jonathan P. Thompson photo.
If someone were to be dropped from another planet into the Nort...
Notes from the Road: Canyons of the Ancients
🚙 Notes from the Road 🛻
The white horse lies on the hard-packed reddish earth. The black horse stands over her protectively, as if shielding her from the harsh sun or the stiff breeze, redolent of sagebrush. Maybe she is injured, m...
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Writer, editor, runner, roamer, author of River of Lost Souls, Sagebrush Empire and Behind the Slickrock Curtain.
Frodeman, a resident of Hoback, Wyoming, is editor (with Luther Propst and Evelyn Brister) of A Watershed Moment: The American West in the Age of Limits (University of Utah Press, 2024).
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