Sitemap - 2024 - The Land Desk

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