The Roundup: Wildfire Risks, the Public Lands Rule, American Prairies
Photo by Carol Highsmith's America / Unsplash Republicans in the House of Representatives voted to nullify decades of land-use planning by the Bureau of Land...
The Roundup: LWCF, Wildlife Refuges, and Public Lands as Common Ground
We learned a couple of days ago that Interior Secretary Doug Burgum is attempting to illegally divert funds from the Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF)...
The Roundup: National Parks, a Grand Canyon Loss, and Illegal Fencing
Some news and reading about the public lands for your Monday morning. In late 2024, the residents of Mancos, Colorado, tore down miles of illegally...
The Road to Stewardship
In June, Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins at the Western Governor’s Association meeting in New Mexico announced her intention to rescind a Clinton-era...
How Markets Replaced What Took Millennia to Build
I suppose we need not go mourning the buffaloes. In the nature of things they had to give place to better cattle. —John Muir The population collapse of...
The GOP Has Tried to Sell Public Lands for Fifty Years
Spend any amount of time among hunting, recreation, or agriculture communities right now and you'll be confronted with countless urgings to contact your...
The Roundup: Public Lands, Farms, and the Far Right
Following up on the previous newsletter, the House Rules Committee removed an amendment in the Republican budget bill aimed at selling public lands. While...
Fighting for Land
Photo by Joshua Tsu on Unsplash The fight over public lands is back. In a House amendment to the Republican budget package, introduced by Utah Representative...
The Rebellion Lives
The Sagebrush Rebellion lives on: The state is asking the justices to declare that the federal government's ownership of millions of acres of public lands in...
The Return of the Prairie Populists
In 1892, the People’s Party gathered in Omaha to declare within their first platform that “we have witnessed for more than a quarter of a century the...
The Legacies of the Bundyville Stand-off
Leah Sottile, host of the fantastic Bundyville podcast and contributor to High Country News, writes on the continuing legacy of the Bundyville stand-off....
Goals
For reasons not entirely sorted in my own mind, I've decided to start a new writing space on the web. I have my long-standing blog at my website that I've...
Introducing Tack & Ink
One cannot be pessimistic about the West. This is the native home of hope. When it fully learns that cooperation, not rugged individualism, is the quality...
The Roundup: Public Lands, Farms, and Far Right
"Yellowstone: First National Park." September 2, 1920. Essex County Herald (Guildhall, VT), Image 2. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers....
Fighting for Land
Photo by Joshua Tsu on Unsplash The fight over public lands is back. In a House amendment to the Republican budget package, introduced by Utah Representative...
The Rebellion Lives
The Sagebrush Rebellion lives on: The state is asking the justices to declare that the federal government's ownership of millions of acres of public lands in...
The Return of the Prairie Populists
In 1892, the People’s Party gathered in Omaha to declare within their first platform that “we have witnessed for more than a quarter of a century the...
The Legacies of the Bundyville Stand-off
Leah Sottile, host of the fantastic Bundyville podcast and contributor to High Country News, writes on the continuing legacy of the Bundyville stand-off....
Goals
For reasons not entirely sorted in my own mind, I've decided to start a new writing space on the web. I have my long-standing blog at my website that I've...