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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

bookbirthday, Disinformation, Fiction, journalism, novel, PublicLands, Trump, Utah

Images from the Extreme Social Distance

I went back to the Home-country — i.e. the Four Corners — in February and March, and headed out to … More

art, colorado, FourCornersCountry, Photography, spring, Utah

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

Images from Utah’s (crowded) national parks

They walked four abreast down the paved walkway toward me, and had I not squeezed out of the way the … More

bryce canyon, capitol reef, cedar breaks, crowds, national parks, nationalparks, natural bridges, public lands, Utah, zion

Industry’s strange and terrible beauty

A quick look at the Environmental Protection Agency’s Toxic Release Inventory map for the nation reveals a startling fact: The … More

art, GoogleEarth, industrialwaste, mining, nevada, Photography, Pollution, sublime, Utah

Photo essay: Summer ’18, Four Corners and beyond

It’s a gray day here in Bulgaria, which has me yearning for warmer, sunnier days and the desert and mountains … More

arizona, colorado, idaho, Photography, travel, Utah

The inundation of Utah’s ‘Mighty Five’ national parks, in four charts

Are the national parks and monuments of the American West getting overrun by hordes of tourists? The short answer: Yes. … More

#BearsEars, arches, colorado, industrial tourism, mesaverde, mighty5, nationalparks, PublicLands, Utah, zion

A 26,000-ton pile of radioactive waste lies under the waters and silt of Lake Powell

Beneath the murky green waters on the north end of Lake Powell, entombed within the tons of silt that have … More

atomic age, colorado river, environmental history, Lake Powell, nuclear, Pollution, radiation, uranium, Utah

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

Why President Obama needs to designate a Bears Ears National Monument

“People have always stereotyped and cartooned Blanding in an unfair way. I get tired of redneck knuckleheads cartooning the environmentalists, … More

#BearsEars, Archaeology, Obama, PublicLands, Tribes, Trump, Utah

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