The Land Desk
KSUT publishes selected articles from The Land Desk, a newsletter from Jonathan P. Thompson. Articles are archived here.
The Land Desk explores news from the Four Corners, Colorado Plateau, and Native and Indigenous lands.
It includes, in the words of Thompson, "commentary, fact-checks, myth-busting, essays, photos, and data-visualizations focusing on public lands, water, stolen and colonized lands, climate, politics, economics, environmental justice, energy, resource exploitation..."
Jonathan is a longtime Four Corners-based journalist and author of River of Lost Souls, Behind the Slickrock Curtain, and his new book, Sagebrush Empire.
The Land Desk explores news from the Four Corners, Colorado Plateau, and Native and Indigenous lands.
It includes, in the words of Thompson, "commentary, fact-checks, myth-busting, essays, photos, and data-visualizations focusing on public lands, water, stolen and colonized lands, climate, politics, economics, environmental justice, energy, resource exploitation..."
Jonathan is a longtime Four Corners-based journalist and author of River of Lost Souls, Behind the Slickrock Curtain, and his new book, Sagebrush Empire.
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A 1946 report called for the Colorado River System to be dammed, diverted, and industrialized. -
Thompson talks about writing from a distance and covering San Juan County Utah in a KSUT Conversation.
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The Marshall Fire tore through suburbs on Colorado’s Front Range on Dec. 30, destroying 991 structures and damaging 127. The ignition point and cause is still under investigation. But there is little question that climate change-induced drought, weather whiplash, and warming temperatures set the stage for the wintertime conflagration.
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A USGS coring study of Lake Powell reveals water quality calamities of the past, many of them originating in the mountains around Silverton.
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The "Spanish Flu" killed 10% of Silverton's population.
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Jonathan Thompson shares an extended essay about the beleaguered lower Dolores River.
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On housing and the growing gap between the rich and the rest of us.
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Biden to restore pre-Trump boundaries of Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monuments.
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The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation’s latest projections for the Colorado River system say Lake Powell could drop below the minimum power pool next year, meaning Glen Canyon Dam could no longer generate hydropower.
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The contentious experiment of headquartering the Bureau of Land Management in the Western U.S. among the lands it manages has come to an end — sort of.
