We can help shape this Utah monument
When President Joe Biden restored the original boundaries of both Grand Staircase-Escalante and Bears Ears national monuments in 2021, public-land…
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MoreChronicle of an abandoned oil and gas well — one of millions
Even from a distance it’s clear that an oil and gas well called “State Senate #2” in New Mexico has…
Abandoned well, Jonathan Thompson image
MoreGuess who has outsized clout on public lands?
This may be a surprising story. It begins with a working group trying to save the last native bighorn sheep…
Image by Pete Nuij, courtesy of Unsplash
MoreHousing prices in the West are over the moon.
“But now the Zoom Boom-fueled market fire is spreading beyond the “best places” into the once-affordable bastions of working class neighborhoods, the bedroom communities, rural ranchettes and even trailer parks.”
Photograph by Phil Hearing, courtesy of Unsplash
MoreThe West badly needs a restoration economy
“Restoration work is not fixing beautiful machinery … It is accepting an abandoned responsibility,”
Photograph courtesy of Allan Nash, open pit coal mine in Wyoming’s Powder River Basin
MoreNow We Need to Rollback the Rollbacks
“Yet Obama’s policies were equally friendly to energy development.”
Photograph by AJ Nash — @VernChronicles
MoreThe West’s Population Grows and Churns
“Americans are still mobile and still moving West..”
Photograph by Brooke Cagle, courtesty of Unsplash
MoreCOVID’S KILLING THE OIL INDUSTRY, AND IT MAY NOT COME BACK
Cracks began to appear in the hydrocarbon-bubble years ago and in the months prior to the arrival of the coronavirus a breakdown appeared imminent.
MoreWHAT THE CORONA VIRUS TEACHES US
What I was witnessing was just one instance of an ad hoc, failed response to a crisis
This transmission electron microscope image shows SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, isolated from a patient in the U.S. Virus particles are shown emerging from the surface of cells cultured in the lab. The spikes on the outer edge of the virus particles give coronaviruses their name, crown-like.
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