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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

Primer: Acid Mine Drainage

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

On Biden's Energy Dominance

Briefs: Colorado River plans, Cisco for sale, Snowpack status

On governance by spite and the future of Bears Ears

The condors of Marble Canyon

On the road again ...

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

Trump's giant faucet

Tuesday Quick Hits

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

Coal's Big Breakdown is Back!

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

Summer Solstice Storm Summary

Summer Solstice Siesta

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

Memorial Day pause

Guest Post: We won’t forget what happened 101 years ago

Biden wages a war on coal-burning. Really!

Mid-month Tuesday catchup day

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

Spring pause

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

The Colorado River Compact

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

Data Dump: Western Farms

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

Data Dump: Oil and Gas Spills

Yes, Biden broke a promise. And it's okay.

Hot Takes on a warming world

About that FB EV-bashing meme

Messing with Maps: Then and Now edition

The arrogance of the off-road vehicle lobby