Sitemap - 2023 - The Land Desk
Sacrifice for the Sun: A lost chapter from SNOWSCREEN
Quick takes and follow-ups from Slickrock country and beyond
Messing with Maps: Colorado River edition
Open Thread: What are you reading, or, what literary gifts are you giving?
Biden puts a plug in oil and gas flatulence
SNOWSCREEN: Chapter IV "Critics cry fowl over runaway rooster"
Lithium in Paradox: aridity could nip a new Utah mining rush in the bud
A pikeminnow, a catfish, and a Russian olive walk into a watershed ...
Messing with Maps: New Mexico 1859 edition
The nuclear "renaissance" suffers a blow
L.L. Nunn, Pinheads, and the birth of the Western power grid
Colorado River crisis averted?
Motorheads appeal Moab-area travel plan
Thoughts on boomtown architecture
Uranium hype heats up + "No groundwater? No problem!"
Bits and pieces and a crossword puzzle?!
Has the energy transition finally come to Farmington?
Foto Friday: Special Swag Edition!
Tuesday Quick Hits: WY 2023 Ends; BLM sheds "Livestock & Mining" label?; petro-state nuttiness
Silverton Mountain Ski Area changes hands
Silverton Mountain Ski Area and Avalanches, a panel discussion (From 2001)
An Afternoon with Jim Jackson (2001)
The 1911 Flood: Could it happen again?
Jerry W. Roberts: Sept. 5, 1948 - Sept. 22, 2023
Addenda to On the supply-side housing theory
On the housing supply-side theory
Biden administration calls for mining law reform
On the SunZia transmission project and carbon tunnel vision
Tuesday Thread: Whaddaya want from the Land Desk?
Feds seek public input on Grand Staircase-Escalante management plan
SNOWSCREEN: Chapter III "Science is nice; Bombs are better"
Big win for Bears Ears, Grand Staircase-Escalante
The West -- and the Alfalfa Wars -- heat up
Ancestral Footprints national monument is a go
On vanishing in the age of surveillance
What the snowy winter gives, the heat takes away
Oil and gas reform; Getting my goat; Good news
Foto Friday: A few images to get you through another hot one
Data Dump: bits and pieces from here and there
When the climate and fentanyl crises collide
Foto Friday: Pondering "nature" photography and Dog Days of summer
Parched ponderosas and other bits and pieces
Bears Ears land exchange and lawsuit advance
SNOWSCREEN: A Project Petrichor environmental thriller
Uranium hype heats up (even as the industry falters)
Friday Thread: Tell us your river stories!
Runoff Report (we have a winner!); Chaco Kerfuffle
Friday thread: What are you reading this summer?
Supreme Court imperils arroyos, wetlands
Will Colorado River cuts create a new Dust Bowl?
Breaking down the"breakthrough" Colorado River deal
A dusty journey on the San Juan
Lisbon Valley mining land rush continues
Fires, Snowslides, and Floods -- Oh my!
Can we engineer our way out of drought?
Rowdy Runoff + Uranium activity on Bears Ears border
Gentrified Bluff; Uranium drilling at disaster site; Runoff watch
Rico Reprieve + BLM revokes Moab-area lithium permit
Can a new rule fix the Bureau of Livestock and Mining?
Play the Predict the Runoff Peak Contest!
Mining Monitor, Runoff Watch, Real Estate Room
Where to go when the world goes to hell?
News roundup: Rail, real estate, and dinosaurs
Saturation Watch (4/1 Snowpack Update)
Tuesday Thread: Tell us about your favorite national monument or park
Foto Friday: Hovenweep National Monument turns 100
Pondering Page, Arizona (and Lake Powell)
Foto Friday:Report from the Road
Biden's broken promise; Uranium import ban?
Mental health day + a little photo contest
Invasion of the Feral Cows; Rain Follows the Plow?
Re-engineering Glen Canyon Dam
Is 'responsible' mining possible?
Calf Creek Overhaul; Chaco Court Ruling
Lake Powell: What is it good for?
Foto Friday: Memories of Canyon de Chelly
Another uranium mill on its way to Utah?
Friday Thread: What do you want from the Land Desk in 2023?
Data Dump: Are the national park crowds subsiding?
The West: Land of income extremes
Decoupling consumption from population on the Colorado River