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On energy binges, data centers, and old projects on new national monuments
Plus: Deadline tomorrow to weigh in on Chaco Canyon Cultural Protection Zone
 • Jonathan P. Thompson
The Big Data Center Buildup comes for ... public lands?
🤖 Data Center Watch 👾 🌵 Public Lands 🌲
 • Jonathan P. Thompson
Trump looks to gut a key historic preservation law
A weakened Section 106 makes national monuments and the Chaco mineral withdrawal more important than ever
 • Jonathan P. Thompson
Trump's Bears Ears and GSENM shrinkage maps are out, and they are ugly
Plus: BLM moves to erase Chaco buffer zone; random real estate room
 • Jonathan P. Thompson
Trump slashes nearly 3 million acres from Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments
It's far, far worse than the last time Trump took his Sharpie to cherished public lands
 • Jonathan P. Thompson
Lake Powell's bad math persists; USFS greenlights AZ mine; AZ river runs dry
Plus: Faraday's Copper Creek project has deep-pocketed backers
 • Jonathan P. Thompson
Havasupai Tribe slams AZ regulators over uranium mine arsenic easing
Plus: Wildfires keep on burning, and the weather isn't helping
 • Jonathan P. Thompson
USDA chief: Give me more cattle in the national forests!
Plus a Messing with Maps look back at the summer of 1776
 • Jonathan P. Thompson

June 2026

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