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Jonathan P. Thompson

Writing about the land, culture, and communities of the American West.
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Is Trump policy really fueling a Western fracking boom?

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When he was elected, President Donald Trump promised that he’d achieve American energy dominance by rolling back regulations […]

December 6, 2018

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

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

December 11, 2017

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

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Surely the most famous monologue in Let There Be Blood, the 2007 Paul Thomas Anderson film about a […]

October 24, 2017

Fiction: Howitzer Love

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(Author’s note: I wrote this piece several years ago for the Silverton Mountain Journal. I retooled it for […]

May 10, 2017

Why President Obama needs to designate a Bears Ears National Monument

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“People have always stereotyped and cartooned Blanding in an unfair way. I get tired of redneck knuckleheads cartooning […]

November 9, 2016
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