The Land Desk

The Land Desk

Trump axes Public Lands Rule

Plus: The Hoback Report, a guest dispatch from Bob Frodeman

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May 12, 2026
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The Hoback River after a storm as it meets up with the Snake River. Bob Frodeman photo.

The Hoback Report
by Bob Frodeman

The weather has been odd this year on the southern side of the Yellowstone Plateau. And summer is setting up to be a little scary – low water, fire danger, and masses of tourists.

Hoback, Wyoming, is an unincorporated area of a few hund…

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Frodeman, a resident of Hoback, Wyoming, is editor (with Luther Propst and Evelyn Brister) of A Watershed Moment: The American West in the Age of Limits (University of Utah Press, 2024).
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