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Tag: Chaco

The Land Desk: A public lands newsletter

With the dawning of a new year comes a new source of news, insight, and commentary: the Land Desk. It … More

Chaco, Climate change, environment, journalism, Land Desk, public lands

Chaco drilling moratorium is woefully inadequate

UPDATE: On June 4, the Bureau of Land Management withdrew its opposition to H.R. 2181, the Chaco Cultural Heritage Protection … More

Archaeology, Chaco, DrillingChaco, oilandgas

Map: Why the Chaco protection bill is just a first step

On May 22, Sens. Tom Udall and Martin Heinrich, both Democrats from New Mexico, introduced the Chaco Cultural Heritage Area … More

Archaeology, Chaco, DrillingChaco, Energy, Oil

Photo gallery: Chaco-region oil and gas development

The San Juan Basin in northwestern New Mexico and southwestern Colorado has been a hydrocarbon extraction hotspot since the 1920s. … More

#RiverOfLostSoulsBook, Chaco, DrillingChaco, Energy, HighCountryNews, journalism, naturalgas, Navajo, newmexico, Oil, Photography, Pueblo

Dataviz: Life in the Energy Sacrifice Zone

Read my High Country News story about the fight against drilling in the Greater Chaco Region.  Shortly after 10 p.m. … More

#BearsEars, Archaeology, Chaco, DrillingChaco, Energy, environmental history, Fracking, HighCountryNews, Navajo, newmexico, Oil, Pueblo, StandingRock

Interior Secy. Zinke is Albert Fall and other writings on energy/public lands

In a harried attempt to keep up with the Trump administration’s assault on public lands, I’ve put out a flurry … More

#BearsEars, Archaeology, Chaco, Energy, journalism, newmexico, Oil, PublicLands, Trump, Utah, Writing

On oil, milkshakes, movies, Albert B. Fall and Ryan Zinke

Surely the most famous monologue in Let There Be Blood, the 2007 Paul Thomas Anderson film about a California oil … More

Chaco, Energy, Oil, Sovereignty, Trump

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