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 photos for your viewing pleasure — I hope. (To really see the photos, check them out on the website). And if you’re hankering for some reading, check out some recent Land Desk posts, if you happened to miss them, such as:
The Trump administration is looking to change the management guidelines for wilderness study areas and public lands with wilderness characteristics, which likely will entail a reinterpretation of the non-impairment mandate. There’s still time to weigh in on these changes.
Did you know that Lees Ferry is named after a convicted mass murderer named John D. Lee? And that anti-public lands crusader Sen. Mike Lee is that dude’s great-great-grandson? I didn’t either until I wrote this piece, in which I also lay out the differences between Lees Ferry and Lee Ferry:
The San Juan Basin in northwestern New Mexico has seen a drilling slowdown in recent years. But many of the 40,000 or so wells drilled over the last century are still spewing methane and other nasty stuff. I mapped a year of “incidents” that included spills or gas releases, along with wells that have been idled.
📸 Foto Friday 🎞️
