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.
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.
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.
This is the grave of Marcus and Narcissa Whitman, as well as others who died with them when the Cayuse struck against the missionary colonialists in 1847. Born in 1802.
For the latest LGM podcast, we were honored enough to have Kevin Waite of Durham University in the U.K. to talk about his new book West of Slavery: The Southern.
