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Trump picks Pearce to run Bureau of Land Management
Also: Drill, baby, drill continues during shutdown; appropriately sited solar
Nov 7 • 
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Dinosaurs, big rains, thin snowpack, oh my
🦖 Fossils 🦕
Nov 4 • 
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Et tu, Cisco? Developer looks to turn Utah "ghost town" into "our town."
Plus: Surfing and gentrifying the desert; Parting shots
Oct 31 • 
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I was wrong about Trump, okay!?
Oct 7 • Jonathan P. Thompson
Public land sell-off amendment is a test
May 9 • Jonathan P. Thompson
BREAKING: Mike MAGA Lee changes public land sell off bill
Jun 24 • Jonathan P. Thompson
On DOGE and Keystone XL and lost jobs
Feb 28 • Jonathan P. Thompson
OPEN LETTER TO THE PEOPLE
Aug 8 • Jonathan P. Thompson
The West's Sacred Cow
Jan 31 • Jonathan P. Thompson
The Weminuche Wilderness at 50 -- and a way forward for public lands
The creation of Colorado's wilderness area was remarkably nonpartisan
Oct 28 • 
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Notes from the Road: SW Oregon to SW Colorado edition
Also: Vaya con Dios Silver Bullet
Oct 21 • 
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Friday quick takes: Energy impotence? Uranium. Floods and reservoirs.
🔋Notes from the Energy Transition 🔌
Oct 17 • 
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Flooding in the Four Corners Country
The San Juan River in Pagosa Springs hits major flood level for the second time in days
Oct 14 • 
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The Silverton Depot bombing and the Golden Goose syndrome
On our fear of killing the goose that laid a golden egg, even if it's killing us
Oct 10 • 
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I was wrong about Trump, okay!?
But I was right about "governance by spite."
Oct 7 • 
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Limiting the Colorado River conflict
Nine recommendations from advocacy groups
Oct 3 • 
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