Western lands and communities--in context.
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Feds release two-year Colorado River plan, Nevada sues
🐟 Colorado River Chronicles 💧
A moisture index satellite image of Las Vegas, Nevada. Southern Nevada stands to lose as much as 71% of its Colorado River allotment under the Department of Interior’s operating guidelines for the rive...
Trump attacks Roadless Rule, again
🌵 Public Lands 🌲
Sometimes it feels like the deeper the Trump administration sinks into various quagmires of its own making, the more it lashes out at politically popular protections for public lands. Each passing day brings a new...
Save the Humpback Chub!
Stone and stone and sky. Jonathan P. Thompson photo.
⛏️ Mining Monitor ⛏️
The vultures didn’t wait long to feed on the carrion of shrunken national monuments. Within days of President Donald Trump’s order slashing nearly 3 million...
Glen Canyon Dam hydropower: What's it good for?
🐟 Colorado River Chronicles 💧
Transmission towers and wires leading to Glen Canyon Dam’s powerplant. Jonathan P. Thompson photo.
Glen Canyon Dam truly is a monumental structure, a 726-foot tall, 5-million-cubic-yard concrete plug...
Deadpool Data Dump: The Western water situation is dire
This water year (Oct. 1-Sept. 30) continues to be the warmest ever recorded in nearly every county in the Southwest and northern Rockies. Source: NOAA
💀 Deadpool Data Dump 🌊
No, Lake Powell’s not that close to actual dead pool —...
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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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