Western lands and communities--in context.
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On AI agents, the Big Data Center Backlash, and monkeywrenches
Wild horses near Four Corners National Monument as a September storm approaches. Jonathan P. Thompson photo.
🤖 DATA CENTER DIGEST 👾
Admire, Levon, Alyssa-7, blacksheep31, Ed, Equinox, Axel, vex-27, Leigh Ibara, Ember, Steven, Sylu...
Newswire: Trump moves to axe climate pollution rules
Good morning and welcome to another edition of the Land Desk Newswire. The Trump administration is continuing to convert its fossil fuel fetish into real-world, deeply consequential policy, this time by eliminating greenhouse gas emissions...
EPA takes (another) swing at Western waters
🌨️🚣🏽 WATER WATCH 🌊🦦
The Trump administration’s Environmental Protection Agency is proposing to further constrain the reach and potency of the Clean Water Act by re-defining what qualifies as “waters of the United States,” or WOT...
Rio Grande revived, temporarily
Welcome to the first edition of the Land Desk’s Newswire, a human-curated summary (we are a non-AI shop, FYI) of some of the week’s biggest headlines that concern land, water, and other Western issues. I’m still working out the timing of th...
Trump wages war on wolves
Sign, La Plata County, Colorado. Jonathan P. Thompson photo.
🦫 WILDLIFE WATCH 🦅
Just days after President Donald Trump angered U.S. ranchers by waiving tariffs on 300,000 metric tons of foreign beef (and whatever other meat-adjac...
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