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March 1, 2020, San Juan Snowpack update

Average to middling. That describes the San Juan Mountain snowpack as of March 1 — at least at the higher … More

AnimasRiver, Climate, colorado, snowpack

What the Bears Ears management plan does — and doesn’t do

Public lands lovers have been up in arms since the Trump administration issued the final management plans for what’s left … More

#BearsEars, BLM, canyon, Petrocracy, Plutocracy, PublicLands, Utah

How coronavirus could ripple through the oil patch — and maybe cut carbon emissions

I traveled via international airports in the time of coronavirus and discovered that face-mask fashion is a thing. Twenty-something partiers … More

Climate change, coronavirus, dystopia, economics, global warming, globalism, oilandgas

Sneak peek at SnowScreen, a future title from Lost Souls Press

“Powder snow skiing is not fun. It is life, fully lived, life lived in a blaze of reality. What we … More

#SnowScreen, avalanche, crowdfunding, lostsoulspress, Malcolm Brautigan, mystery, novel, publishing, snow, thriller

San Juan Mountain water year 2020 starts dry, but is on the upswing

The 2020 water year (which started Oct. 1, 2019) began like a desiccated whimper in the San Juan Mountains of … More

Climate, colorado, Drought, sanjuanmountains, snow, weather, winter

Let them eat Blake’s: An excerpt from Behind the Slickrock Curtain

A couple hours later, the ragged silhouette of Tsé Bit’a’í, or Shiprock, rose up ahead of Brautigan, obscured by the … More

BehindTheSlickrockCurtain, farmington, lostsoulspress, novel, uranium

Gone Missing: An excerpt from the new novel, “Behind the Slickrock Curtain”

June, present day. Durango, Colorado. “That motherfucker,” Eliza Santos muttered aloud as she coasted into her conspicuously half-empty driveway on … More

BehindTheSlickrockCurtain, crowdfund, Fiction, lostsoulspress, novel

The Big Breakdown of coal, illustrated by one chart

After World War II, the federal government, utilities, and developers embarked on a project to build dams, mines, power plants, … More

BigBreakdown, coal, electricity, Energy, environment, GreatDecoupling, history, Pollution, power

On the alleged persecution of billionaires

I recently wrote an information-crammed article/dataviz for High Country News about the slow death of coal in Wyoming. One of … More

billionaires, coal, economics, inequality, oligarchy, taxes, wealth, Wyoming

Gold King documents and map unearthed

While going down a wormhole the other day, I stumbled across a variety of documents on the Gold King Mine … More

#GoldKing, #RiverOfLostSoulsBook, colorado, environment, environmental history, EPA, history, mining, Superfund

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