Archive - The Land Desk

Foto Friday: Autumn 2025 from the road edition

Plus: Interior official Karen Budd-Falen's financial ties to controversial lithium mine revealed

Dec 12 • Jonathan P. Thompson

The lie of the "salt-of-the-earth" Sagebrush Rebel

Also: Big Data Center Buildup accelerates; More uranium "mining" in Lisbon Valley; Messing with Maps: housing edition

Dec 9 • Jonathan P. Thompson

A weird water year so far: Abundant rain, sparse snow

Plus: National park shenanigans in Utah

Dec 2 • Jonathan P. Thompson

November 2025

On Trump's arroyo-phobic Clean Water Act rule

Plus: Congress kills another RMP, sows chaos; Trump endangers Endangered Species Act

Nov 25 • Jonathan P. Thompson

Study: Something's gotta give on the Rio Grande

Climate change and overconsumption are drying up the Southwest's "other" big river

Nov 21 • Jonathan P. Thompson

Moab seeks bigger crowds?

Plus: Car Chronicles (and a poll)

Nov 18 • Jonathan P. Thompson

USDA looks to expand public lands grazing

Plus: Data Center Watch, Mining Monitor, Messing with Maps 1940 edition

Nov 14 • Jonathan P. Thompson

Trump picks Pearce to run Bureau of Land Management

Also: Drill, baby, drill continues during shutdown; appropriately sited solar

Nov 7 • Jonathan P. Thompson

Dinosaurs, big rains, thin snowpack, oh my

🦖 Fossils 🦕

Nov 4 • Jonathan P. Thompson

October 2025

Et tu, Cisco? Developer looks to turn Utah "ghost town" into "our town."

Plus: Surfing and gentrifying the desert; Parting shots

Oct 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 • Jonathan P. Thompson

Notes from the Road: SW Oregon to SW Colorado edition

Also: Vaya con Dios Silver Bullet

Oct 21 • Jonathan P. Thompson

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