Western lands and communities--in context.
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Trump slashes nearly 3 million acres from Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments
🌵 Public Lands 🌲
Looking toward the Bears Ears from Comb Ridge with Cedar Mesa in the mid-ground. Everything in the image was included in Bears Ears National Monument. Yesterday, Trump’s proclamations removed 1.24 million acres — i...
Lake Powell's bad math persists; USFS greenlights AZ mine; AZ river runs dry
🐟 Colorado River Chronicles 💧
Diagram showing critical reservoir levels at Glen Canyon Dam and Lake Powell. Land Desk diagram with data from the Bureau of Reclamation.
The Colorado River watershed’s spring runoff — if you can cal...
Havasupai Tribe slams AZ regulators over uranium mine arsenic easing
🔥 Wildfire Lookout 🔥
Map of large fires burning in the Four Corners region as of 7/7/2026. Source: National Interagency Fire Center.
The fire situation in the Four Corners area is not improving. The weather remains hot, dry, and...
USDA chief: Give me more cattle in the national forests!
🐮 Grazing Gazette 🥩
An AUM — i.e. a cow and a calf — in the Lisbon Valley in southeastern Utah. Jonathan P. Thompson photo.
Last month, U.S. Agriculture Department Undersecretary Michael Boren issued a memo, with a preamble by Ag...
Climate, conflagrations, and calamities
🥵 Aridification Watch 🐫
Satellite imagery of some of the major fires burning on the afternoon of June 29, 2026. Source: NOAA Wildland Fire Data Portal.
Three federal firefighters were killed and two seriously injured when the Knowles a...
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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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