Rounding up the Biden administration’s ups and downs on land policy.
Items by Jonathan Thompson
Increasingly, land is shifting into the hands of billionaires.
Can the U.S. finally vanquish one of the most enduring Lords of Yesterday?
Climate change and the urban heat islands take their toll from Phoenix to Portland.
Is the ‘grand foundation’ crumbling?
Conservatives aren’t so keen on conservation.
A sci-fi scenario from 2008 offers insight into present day news.
This old, abundant, relatively clean energy source has barely been tapped.
The bid to diminish national monuments threatens landscape preservation.
The agreement isn’t the sustainable, permanent one that’s necessary.
A beleaguered Colorado waterway garners new attention.
Scientists look to identify, map and preserve climate change refugia.
Can a flurry of new power lines tame California’s solar conundrum?
The new Public Lands Rule would put conservation on par with other uses.
The push to evict natural gas appliances from buildings, explained.
Record-breaking rain and snow bring salvation — and destruction — to a drought-parched West.
Five decades ago, the late Navajo Nation President Peterson Zah described America’s ‘power madness.’
Yet grazing fees remain puzzlingly low.
Mapping the state of the rails across the region.
There’s a historic reckoning in the Colorado River Basin — and Katie Hobbs is here to play hard ball.
The president has riled up just about everyone with his public-land policies. Maybe that’s a good thing.
Fierce opposition to the project is likely.
Parking lots and big-box store roofs could generate oodles of clean power.
California’s current deluge highlights huge vulnerabilities.
The weather pattern hits the West for a third consecutive winter.
It was a bad year for dams and a good one for ‘green’ metals.
Breaking down population’s role in the environmental impact equation.
The vitality in the vast desert.
A complicated process, explained.
Trumpism and extremism didn’t fly during the 2022 midterms.
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