Western lands and communities--in context.
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Feds release Colorado River plan, and no one's very happy about it
🐟 Colorado River Chronicles 💧
Lake Powell and Wahweap Marina back in August 2021, when the surface level was at about 3,549 feet. It’s now at 3,522 feet, just above the all-time low reached in April 2022. Jonathan P. Thompson photo.
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A satellite image of the Phoenix metro area with the moisture index layer turned on (blue = more moisture; red = drier). Scroll down to see more images and explanations. Source: Copernicus Browser.
The Land Desk is evolving! During the fi...
On energy binges, data centers, and old projects on new national monuments
Four Corners coal power plant, the flagship of the Big Buildup of coal plants on the Colorado Plateau during the 1960s and 1970s. Plans also included building an even bigger coal plant on the Kaiparowits Plateau in the middle of what later...
The Big Data Center Buildup comes for ... public lands?
🤖 Data Center Watch 👾 🌵 Public Lands 🌲
A utility-scale solar facility on BLM land outside Boulder City, Nevada. The proposed Townsite Solar 2 data center would be located near here. Jonathan P. Thompson photo.
First they came f...
Trump looks to gut a key historic preservation law
REMINDER: There’s just a little over a week left to comment on the Trump administration’s proposal to rescind ban on new oil and gas leases and mining claims within a 10-mile radius of Chaco Culture National Historical Park. The BLM is acce...
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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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