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