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
Happy Birthday 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: Part I
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