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The Best of the Land Desk, 2024
SNOWSCREEN CHAPTER V (rerun): The Tannenbaum Tussle reaches a fiery climax
Congress passes mining cleanup bill, at last
Giving-season thread: Tell us about your favorite nonprofit or advocacy group
Foto Friday: More images from the road
Messing with Maps/Data Dump: The Wealthy West? edition
Images: Four Corners Country road tripping
Briefs: Colorado River plans, Cisco for sale, Snowpack status
On governance by spite and the future of Bears Ears
Trump 2.0: What to expect regarding public lands and the environment
Think like a watershed: Interdisciplinary thinkers look to tackle dust-on-snow
Wyoming backs Utah's big public lands grab
Is mining coming to the La Plata Mountains?
Enforcement finally comes to the San Juan Basin gaspatch
Ridin' the storm out catchup day
The death of the pragmatic Western Republican
On climatic dissonance and a new water year
Bears Ears final management plan drops as lawsuit drags on
Mining Monitor: Lots of talk; little mining
Glen Canyon Dam faces dead pool
On hometown historic preservation, car fetishes, and a main drag redesign
Messing with Maps: Factory Farm Edition
Western water: Where values, math, and the "Law of the River" collide, Part II
Western water: Where values, math, and the "Law of the River" collide, Part I
Feds finalize compromise plans for GSENM and Rock Springs field office
Western Solar Plan: Balanced? Or apocalyptic?
Messing with Maps: Best roads of Utah edition
The stacks go down, the energy transition moves forward
Utah goes for the ultimate public land grab
Your Turn: What are you reading?
Messing w/ Maps: Colorado River Plumbing edition
Data Dump: It's getting hot in here
Messing with Maps: Miera y Pacheco, Dominguez, and Escalante edition
On Superfund and the Gold King, 9 years later
On Trump's dystopian Agenda 47, Freedom Cities
Some thoughts on the bid to protect the Lower Dolores River
Bears Ears and the "local" card
Messing with Maps: John C. Fremont edition
Project 2025’s extreme vision for the West
Friday Quick Hits: Clearing the desk of public lands news!
A few thoughts on this fraught moment in time
Climate change's coal-smudged fingerprints
Visualizing uranium mining, past and present
A Dog Day Diatribe on AI, cryptocurrency, energy consumption, and capitalism
Data Dump: Colorado River Consumption Drops
Western wildfires and sprawl spread
Messing with Maps: San Juan Canyon Country edition
Meditations on solar, Joshua trees, and the movement to kill clean energy
"Unique" resort planned for a San Juan Mountain avalanche zone
Climate Change: A serious downer for mountain streams
Messing with Maps: A journey to the "Fortified Spur"
The Western War on Wildlife Continues
Guest Post: We won’t forget what happened 101 years ago
Biden wages a war on coal-burning. Really!
Feds cancel 25 Trump-era oil and gas leases in archaeology rich SE Utah
Utah pols continue anti-public land buffoonery
April is the cruelest month (to the snowpack)
The 1881 killing of Clayton Ogsbury
Good News from the Clean Energy Beat
A flurry of public land protections
Notes from the energy transition
Data Dump: Exporting hay (and water)
Pondering Moab, the Old West vs. New West, and cows vs. condos
Aridification Watch: Snowpack is normal in most places -- for what it's worth
Photo Tuesday: A road trip around a corner of the Colorado Plateau
Lamenting the McElmo effect and loss of irrigation-landscapes in an era of aridification
Data Dump: Big Car Blues edition
Messing with Maps: A lotta damn dams edition
Feds publish "unprecedented" Bears Ears plan
As the Colorado River shrinks, states continue to tussle over cuts
Abandoned oil and gas wells threaten cultural sites
Huge telecom tower on its way to Bears Ears?
SNOWSCREEN CHAPTER V: The Tannenbaum Tussle reaches a fiery climax
On a disinformation campaign to quash a proposed national monument
Feds reject energy projects on Navajo Nation
Cheatgrass and other stuff that gets my goat
Messing with Maps: 1883 San Juan Mining Districts Edition
USGS includes Indigenous knowledge in Grand Canyon uranium study
Tuesday Thread: What are you watching?
Hot Takes: Wingnut Tracker; Aridification Watch; More on Glen Canyon visitation #s
Data Dump: National Park visitation 2023
Mining Monitor: Uranium buzz, buzz, buzz
Messing with Maps: Ski area history edition
Yes, Biden broke a promise. And it's okay.