This is a guest post by Western Dave. I want to thank Erik and the other front-pagers for giving me the chance to spread the word about yet another outrage that is occurring and requires action. Like many of us in the current crisis, my...
American West
This is the grave of Samuel Ovenshine. Born in 1843 in Philadelphia, Ovenshine was a kid who wanted to be a lawyer. Then the Civil War happened. Ovenshine joined the.
James Pogue is a very annoying writer about the contemporary American West. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez is an exceptionally annoying Democratic congresswoman. That's not because she's a moderate in a purple district..
There is only one that Trump can really lose western Republicans--sell off the public lands. This is a big part of Project 2025 though. There's room for these jerks to maneuver--reducing some of the national monuments to encourage drilling won't do it. But there's only...
Wyoming Republicans are demanding the federal government turn over the vast amount of federal land it holds in the state--everything but Yellowstone but very much including Grand Teton National Park--so.
One of the only times the major American media talks about the rural West is during wildfire season, which has been sadly active this year. One question that rarely gets.
Going back to the Clinton administration, Democrats have sought to bolster their environmental credentials by creating large national monuments in the West. This is great. The problem though is that to administer them costs money and the money isn't there for it. So in some...
The Great Salt Lake is simply drying up due to the terrible management of water in the West and this is a very real environmental disaster in the making. Days.
Arizona has finally realized that it cannot grow forever because it doesn't have water to do so. And this is going to be very, very interesting to watch. In one.
For our latest podcast, we interview Erika Bsumek, Professor of History at the University of Texas, about her brand new book The Foundations of Glen Canyon Dam: Infrastructures of Dispossession on the Colorado Plateau. In the conversation, we discuss the ways that Glen Canyon Dam...
When I teach my environmental history courses, I tell my students that if they want to work for the rest of their lives, go get a degree in water law.
This sort of thing is going to get more and more common. For decades, the assumption among people who want to move to the Southwest is that the government won't.