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Trump looks to gut a key historic preservation law

Trump's Bears Ears and GSENM shrinkage maps are out, and they are ugly

Trump slashes nearly 3 million acres from Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments

Lake Powell's bad math persists; USFS greenlights AZ mine; AZ river runs dry

Havasupai Tribe slams AZ regulators over uranium mine arsenic easing

USDA chief: Give me more cattle in the national forests!

Climate, conflagrations, and calamities

Utah's legal bid to kill Bears Ears, GSENM monuments lives on; BLM looks to open Utah land to motorheads; and Hoback water woes ...

My million-dollar hometown!? + Warmest water year + Trump guts more public land protections

Foto Friday and Juneteenth rest day

MAGA fails to derail GESNM plan; Trump looks to tweak WSA management, climbing rules

To Lees or not to Lee's; Mike Lee goes after roadless rule; Trump steps up oil and gas leasing

San Juan Basin fossil fuel industries keep polluting, even as they fade away

Data centers = heat factories

Trump revokes OHV restrictions for public lands

Green River nuke's back on the table; Hole-in-the-Rock road paved

On misleading public lands coverage

Climate change comes for a Lake Powell marina

Spring runoff has peaked!

Foto Friday catchup day

Trump axes Public Lands Rule

Data Center Watch: Stratos project edition

Lisbon Valley Mine reopens with AI, robots

MAYDAY! Snowpack Report

Notes from the Road: Canyons of the Ancients

Trump looks to Make America Graze Again

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Arizona's Growth Machine keeps churning even as existing communities dry up

Abysmal math on the Colorado River

Trump cancels Pecos mining ban process

On Arches, timed-entry, and crowds

Chaco protections in the crosshairs; USFS HQ to SLC

Uranium mining in the Chama Valley?

Tell me about your yukigata and your runoff peak prediction!

The water footprint of Arizona's copper mines

The (new) water year of our discontent

Data Dump: Oak Flat land swap finalized

Mining Monitor: Arizona projects advance

The Alfalfa Fallacy

Lee looks to CRA to crush GSENM plan

Mining Monitor: Trump uranium mine? Or trolling?

It's getting hot in here ... and it ain't just the January Thaw

Bringing the crowds back to Arches, other national parks

Storms help snowpack, but it remains scant -- and deadly

The Colorado River Crisis is Here

Monarchs are in trouble (the butterflies, I mean)

Four Corners coal mine looks to keep operating for 110 more years

"Abundance" comes to the Colorado; Lee attacks public lands again; Billionaires buy real estate

Groundhog confusion as snow drought grips West

Putting land into the public's hands

Alfalfa as an agricultural demand response tool

Utah officials pillage public lands -- again

A Colorado River glossary and primer

Feds release Colorado River plan for a warming climate

On the picket line with the Telluride Ski Patrol union

Data Dump: One year into the "energy emergency"

Oil, Ego, and Venezuela