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

Behind the Slickrock Curtain is here!

In the not so distant future, as the planet burns, the nation reels from the effects of a pandemic, Truth … More

Preface: In December, High Country News published a story of mine titled, Is nuclear energy the key to saving the … More

The Bureau of Land Management released its finalized Bears Ears National Monument management plan on Feb. 6, despite the fact … More

To drive west out of Farmington is to travel through the borderland, where the northeastern edge of the Navajo Nation … More

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

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