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Friday quick takes: Energy impotence? Uranium. Floods and reservoirs.

Flooding in the Four Corners Country

The Silverton Depot bombing and the Golden Goose syndrome

I was wrong about Trump, okay!?

Limiting the Colorado River conflict

Are nukes the solution to the data center problem?

Open Thread: How are you coping with ... (well, you know)?

Big Tech invades Nevada's power grid (and desert)

Gosar looks to eliminate two Arizona national monuments

Experts: Slash Colorado River consumption ASAP to avoid crisis

Trump moves to nix Public Lands rule; Alfalfa exports data dump

Where are the anti-tyranny, federal overreach folks when you need them?

Republicans are still waging war on public lands

Summer's over; and it was a dry one

Labor Day longread: The Silverton strike of 1939

Data Centers: The Big Buildup of the Digital Age

Mining Monitor: Oak Flat reprieve; uranium briefs

Colorado River report grim; may be looking on the bright side

Western tourism suffers a Trump-slump

Meditations on Monkeywrenching

OPEN LETTER TO THE PEOPLE

Trump's war on energy

Drought intensifies and spreads

No, there is not plenty of water for data centers

Open thread: What's your chosen method of resistance?

MAGA continues to pillage public lands

Would a Colorado River deal spell disaster for the Grand Canyon?

Colorado River users come to their senses?

Where in the West are people moving?

As the Colorado River shrinks, desert towns grow

Data Dump: Abandoned oil and gas wells in New Mexico

Trump fast-tracks more destruction

BREAKING: Mike MAGA Lee changes public land sell off bill

Summer Solstice Fiction: Let them eat Blake's

Trump's DOJ takes aim at the Antiquities Act

Sen. Mike Lee revives public land sell-off bid

Spring runoff peaks, winners announced

MAGA intensifies its assault on public lands

Foto Friday: Western roaming

Bureau of Livestock and Mining is back!

Foto Friday: Memorial Day Weekend edition

Mining Monitor: Velvet-Wood, Anson royalties, South32 Hermosa Mine

When "disposing" of public land isn't the end of the world

Trump "emergency" fast-tracks Utah uranium mine

Public land sell-off amendment is a test

The Trump Budget Blues

Friday Fast Takes: Dust on snow, too many houses?, Trump ticker, more...

Longread: On wolves, wildness, and hope in trying times

Interior eviscerates public land protections, fast-tracks mining, drilling

The Public Lands Crisis: Live Discussion with Jonathan Thompson (The Land Desk) & the Pattiz Brothers

The Land Desk Predict the Peak Super-Contest

Trump looks to make the BLM the Bureau of Livestock and Mining Again

Can "toilet to tap" save the Colorado River?

Data Dump: Making coal "beautiful" again

Welcome to Bizarro World

Freedom Cities are back!

On Trump & tirades; April 1 snowpack update

Friday tidbits: GSENM Intertribal coalition; mining order hits the ground; electric railway; reading room

Trump hands public lands to the mining industry

Spring-has-sprung rest day

It’s still the West against itself

National parks see record numbers; Trump wants to keep it quiet

CO West Slope Letdown: Boebert left, MAGA stuck around

A Sagebrush Rebel returns to Interior

Interior Dept. may be withdrawing from the West, not moving to it

On DOGE and Keystone XL and lost jobs

On the chaos emanating from Trumpville

Friday Mish-Mash

Tuesday Thread: How are you coping?

Trump's fossil fuel foxes are guarding the public lands henhouse

Messing with Maps: Pipeline edition

West's Sacred Cow part II: Indian Creek case study

Trump's trade war fallout

The West's Sacred Cow

Water, water everywhere ... ?

Trump Ticker: "Unleashing energy" edition

Open Thread: Share your fears, hopes, and predictions for the second Trump administration

The Donald Trump Burr Trail? Oy!

SCOTUS kills Utah land grab

Bill Simon, 1944-2025

Hay is sucking the Great Salt Lake dry

New Year snowpack update: Bold beginning tapers off