by Luke Runyon | Jan 2, 2020 | Environment, News, Politics & Policy
With short-term drought plans finished, water managers from across the Southwest recently gathered in Las Vegas to figure out what’s next. The Colorado River Water Users Association annual conference brings together nearly every municipal water agency, irrigation...
by Robyn Vincent | Dec 31, 2019 | Environment, News, Politics & Policy
What are the biggest issues of the last decade? Ask a resident of the American West and you’ll likely hear two words: public lands. What is happening on these lands and the people endangering their future are laid bare in Christopher Ketcham’s recent book This...
by Luke Runyon | Nov 29, 2019 | Environment, News, Politics & Policy
Earlier this year, Arizona—one of seven southwestern states that rely on the Colorado River—was in the midst of a heated discussion about water. “It’s time to protect Lake Mead and Arizona,” the state’s Republican governor, Doug Ducey, said in his state of the state...
by Robyn Vincent | May 9, 2019 | Books, Culture
The rural American West has a certain magnetism. It is at once nurturing and disorienting. It pulls people in and eradicates their tolerance for crowds and concrete jungles. And at the same time it deepens wonder for the natural world and for old-fashioned...
