Sitemap - 2022 - The Land Desk
Happy Hibernation and Holidays
Introducing the Mining Monitor Map
Foto Friday Favorite Place Thread
BREAKING: Avi Kwa Ame National Monument reportedly a go
Mining Monitor, Killer Cars, Cattle Correction
Bears Ears & Grand Staircase-Escalante Battles Continue
Longread: The F%$^hell Canyon Saga
What's going on with the oil industry?
Wealth moves West + Equicide Epidemic
When no home is affordable, where do you live?
Energy-Water Nexus Data Dump 1: Fracking
Bears Ears Management Plan and other news
Celebrating a polluter's demise ...
Data Mega-Dump: Alfalfa (Part II)
Rio Grande Streamflow Mystery: Solved?
Data Dump: Housing crisis drags on
Colorado River crisis continues
Visualizing aridity -- from space
Cows, climate, and public land grazing
The coal-tainted poison pill in the climate bill ...
Prioritize people, not parking
Guest Post: Ditches are a vanishing paradise
Saga of an Oil Well (The Horseshoe Gallup Field Sacrifice Zone Part II)
A trip through a sacrifice zone: The Horseshoe Gallup oilfield
Links and tweets and headlines
Visitation down (slightly) at "Mighty Five" national parks
Image Gallery: Summer Southwest
Monday Open Thread: Let's play the used-to-be game
Luxury houseboat sinks on Lake Powell
The good climate news of today
Episodes and images from a broken, beautiful America
Solstice and the Silver Bullet
Image: Fossil Fuel Extravaganza
Guest Post: The Colorado River Compact hasn't aged well
Friday Chart: Rise and Fall (and comeback?) of Coal
The Meaning of Monuments (and the Antiquities Act)
Cisco Resort and other water buffalo oddities
Map Day: Fire risk, O&G threats, Snowmelt timing
Monday Thread: Be the Land Desk assignment editor!
Aridification Briefs: Spring runoff edition
Data Dump: Is Colorado River demand management unfair to farmers?
"Shaping an urban area" in the rural West: Part IV
Another climate victim: Cryptobiotic crust
Aridification Watch: May edition
History Repeats: The Rattlesnake Field and Aneth oil
Monday Open Thread: What changes have you seen?
Oil & gas leasing resumes -- with reforms
What are you reading (not a book) and why?
Spring Break and Spring Snowpack
News bits: The West is growing, and burning, and drying out
Guest Post: Trailer park residents hope to buy the land beneath them
Durango-Silverton railroad to pay $20M for 416 Fire
The range is sick; O&G leasing is back
Friday Open Thread: Tell us about your favorite bookstore(s) in the West!
Data Dump: Glen Canyon dips into hydropower buffer zone
Scrappy watchdogs gear up for a new mining boom with court victories
News Roundup: Gas prices, O&G BS, more
Wednesday open thread: A real hot topic!
Shaping an urban area in the rural West: Part III
Data Dump: snow, guns, Bears Ears land swap
GUEST POST When it’s time to run: recollections from a fire and its fallout
Shaping an urban area in the rural West: Part II
Data Dump: Grim statistics for grim times
"Shaping an urban area" in the rural West
Catch up! (on your Land Desk reading)
Looking at the land through the eyes of an iconic species
News Roundup: Arroyos on trial; Superstition Vistas; Lake Powell bridge
FRIDAY OPEN THREAD: What are you watching (about the West)?
AVALANCHE: A blow-by-blow analysis of the 1978 disaster flick
News Roundup: coal, income gap, Nevada national monuments and more
Data Dump: Our crowded national parks (again)
Coal, fire, methane, and moving mountains
News Roundup: Dwindling snowpack and water levels, big box solar, vandalism
Data Dump: Biden drilling boom?
"Just erosion": A walk in Bisti/De-Na-Zin
Wonkfest: Sunnyside Gold King Settlement, explained
Data Dump: Gold King, water, and some good news for rivers and fish
Open thread: What are y'all reading?
News Roundup: Coal, oil, solar (+ snow)
The Energy Transition and Public Lands: Part IV
Jan. 6 and the "Sagebrush Rebels"
A New Year thread: What would you like the Land Desk to cover in 2022?
Colorado's Marshall Fire: redefining the wildland urban interface and the notion of fire season