Western lands and communities--in context.
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My million-dollar hometown!? + Warmest water year + Trump guts more public land protections
🏠 Random Real Estate Room 🤑
Downtown Durango in the mid-1970s, when housing prices were about 1/100 of the current median price.
What in the holy gentrification hell is this news?! The median price for a single-family in-town hom...
Foto Friday and Juneteenth rest day
I had a few dispatches lined up for today, one about gentrification and another about data centers, and then I realized it was a national holiday, Juneteenth, and my readers need a break from all of the crazy news. So scroll down for some p...
MAGA fails to derail GESNM plan; Trump looks to tweak WSA management, climbing rules
🌞 Good News! 😎
THE NEWS: Sen. Mike Lee, the ultra-MAGA Utah Republican, failed once again to diminish public lands protections when his bid to use the Congressional Review Act to revoke Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument’s...
To Lees or not to Lee's; Mike Lee goes after roadless rule; Trump steps up oil and gas leasing
🐟 Colorado River Chronicles 💧
Looking down at Lees Ferry and Lee Ferry, but probably not Lee’s Ferry or Lees’ Ferry. Jonathan P. Thompson photo.
Recently, my colleagues at High Country News and I had a bit of a kerfuffle over whe...
San Juan Basin fossil fuel industries keep polluting, even as they fade away
📈 Data Dump/Hydrocarbon Hoedown 📊
An oil and gas well and the San Juan Generating coal power plant in 2022, just a few months before the coal plant was shuttered and demolished. The area is now home to a utility-scale solar plant,...
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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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