Officials Avoid Sacrificing Lake Powell Sacred Cow
Community Voices
A coalition of Colorado River activists criticized the federal government and seven states for prioritizing an agreement that fails to meaningfully reduce consumptive...
Will Reclamation and the States Make the Grade on a Colorado...
One out of nine Americans depends on the Colorado River, meaning that the public has vested much faith in water managers. In most Colorado...
Atmospheric rivers endanger the West
Community Voices
Moab, Utah, gets just eight inches of rain per year, yet rainwater flooded John Weisheit’s basement last summer. Extremes are common in a...
University of Wyoming analysis proves the economic irrelevance of public-land livestock...
Opinion
A series of University of Wyoming economic analyses (funded by the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association) to determine the economic impacts of eliminating federal grazing...
‘Till the Last Drop: As the Water Grows Scarce in Utah,...
This reporting has been a collaboration between Sierra Nevada Ally and the Daily Yonder, with photography provided by the Deep Indigo Collective
From one side...
Nevada’s Pathway To Lead the Renewable Energy Transition
Opinion
The costs of climate change can be hard to wrap our heads around – the destruction from droughts, wildfires, and heatwaves, the danger to...
2022 Lake Tahoe Summit
The theme of the 26th Annual Lake Tahoe Summit, which was held Tuesday, August 16, 2022, at Sand Harbor, was titled “Protecting Lake Tahoe’s...
What the Inflation Reduction Act means for Nevada
The Inflation Reduction Act passed through Congress and was just signed into law by President Joe Biden. One of the biggest climate change bills...
Swimming, Italy, and the Wonder of Dogs with Lynne Cox
Lynne Cox has seen a lot over the more than 35 years as an amateur, record-setting long-distance and cold water swimmer. Cox has swum...
Wildfires are already incinerating southwestern states.
Opinion
We must come to understand what isn't working, and what cost-effective tools are not currently being used. Only because they are literally free to...