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It's been a while since my last check-in, so to kick of 2026 here's some recent news about American public lands. Last year was a tough one for public lands, with attempted sell-offs, massive staffing cuts, regulatory rollbacks, and misappropriated funding. If you saw impacts at
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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 that most characterizes and preserves it, then it will have achieved itself and outlived its origins. —Wallace Stegner If there is a singular animating
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Leah Sottile, host of the fantastic Bundyville podcast and contributor to High Country News, writes on the continuing legacy of the Bundyville stand-off. When the Bundys declared victory, it was hailed as a win for their vision of the American West. It was a victory for the entire far-right antigovernment
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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 mostly used for digital history writing, which I feel is rather pigeonholed into those topics. But