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➸Writing about Western land & water from the🤎of the Colorado River Watershed ➸Path of Light—A Walk Through Colliding Legacies of Glen Canyon (2025 Utah Book Award Winner/Library of Congress Great Reads Selection) ➸Next: Riverside (Torrey House Press, 2027)
To immersively write about public lands and rivers, I need to be on the scene. If you’re not out there, is the landscape’s voice included in the story?
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Could Colorado River “conservation pools” provide a path out of deadlock? -- Shannon Mullane (Fresh Water News) #COriver #aridification coyotegulch.blog/2026/03/07/c...
This.
I mean we are living on a red line. Both geological and political. I trust the elder will prevail!
Another day of shitty public lands news in Utah. open.substack.com/pub/wildword...
A thorough history of compact details past and present that reveal much about the current Colorado River impasse.
Come write beside the Colorado River. A writing retreat in Marble Canyon, AZ is the perfect fall treat to look forward to. Details here: pronghornexpeditions.com/retreats/ pronghornexpeditions.com/retreats/
Green River, UT
This op-ed explains a lot about McCay's effort to destroy this tax relief program for low-income seniors. He's worked against it for years.
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Living our best life in the West requires a healthy Colorado River. Do state leaders care?
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How to Plant a Billion Trees comes out in two weeks. I am so honored that the book is graces with an endorsement from Luis Alberto Urrea: "Nicole Walker’s How to Plant a Billion Trees gives me hope. It has resonance and life, and will always be on my shelf."
Congrats, Nicole! That blurb hooks me deeply. I can’t wait to read!
Field notes from beside a thirsty river and some book news! #ColoradoRiver
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Not to mention, Kenton Grua is one of the few people to hike the length of the river. Traversing the canyon is not something one simply runs through, nor many of the rugged canyons bookending it. I support her effort but hypothesize many detours.
I wonder what her Grand Canyon route will be? Adventure aside, her message about the Colorado River’s future is clear and correct. Are the people with puppet strings to the pipelines & dams listening?
The art of not forgetting who we are.
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What a joke! Have they looked at the climate models, or stepped outside, or floated the river, or stood atop the falling reservoir?!?!?
Entsminger put a 5-year idea on the table at CRWUA2025. Problem is the current state of the basin is dire. No snowpack on top of a dry year in 2025. Time to decommission Glen Canyon Dam.
Wait, wasn’t there already a deadline? The can continues bouncing down the very dry and dusty road alongside the #ColoradoRiver.
Shocking.
Such a memorable river trip with @melissasevigny.bsky.social. Historic inscriptions are fascinating in their complexity, part vandalism part critical documentation. One thing is certain: don’t even think about scratching your name in the rocks today!
Happy solstice! Don’t forget to look up! 🌞https://open.substack.com/pub/wildwords/p/solsticing?r=73kg&utm_medium=ios
Cool! Do you have a link to this presentation?
Ha right? No thanks. I’m an outside human.
There is a major Colorado River water conference this week. Instead of attending as a journalist, I am touring Hohokam canals, bighorn guzzlers, and modern water infrastructure. I’m more interested in what the watershed has to say. open.substack.com/pub/wildword...
Want to float the San Juan together? Join me on Glen Canyon Institute’s 2026 Membership trip! glencanyon.org/product/2026...
TONIGHT. www.archaeologysouthwest.org/event/path-o...
Tomorrow I’ll be presenting about the 1920s Bernheimer Expeditions in the Four Corners region for @archsw.bsky.social. Tune in online here: www.archaeologysouthwest.org/event/path-o...
A boat dropped us off along a temporary shoreline to meditate on yesterday, eternal and ephemeral, in the canyon country archive. Nine days to lose count of with no words to find. Just you, me, the desert, and more water and wonder than we can absorb. open.substack.com/pub/wildword...
Imagine if Colorado River Basin decision makers considered such expansive views instead of clinging to development plans. With decisions being made by people behind closed doors, what, if anything, has changed since the 1922 Colorado River Compact except less water? open.substack.com/pub/wildword...