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Topic areas: Western history, labor, land and water, uranium
Water and Great Salt Lake:Great Salt Lake and the Uinta Basin: An Intertwined History
We have to put the Great Salt Lake first
Presentations:
Working to Save Great Salt Lake Advocacy, at Utah State History Conference 2022
Guest spot on Brigham Young Money podcast
Uranium:
The Uranium Boom and Free Enterprise
"Risk and Reward," part of Mining the West digital exhibit
Utah history:
Rural Utah at a Crossroads (co-author)
A Distance Reading of Immigration in Carbon County
Legalized Water Theft: The Daniels Diversion
Adapt or Die: Utah's Contested Water History
Posts
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On Water and AI
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Cadillac Desert Was Too Effective
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Distributive administration and its discontents
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Efficiency and Resilience
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"The Whites of this Country Are Against the Government"
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Reclamation in the Prophetic Perfect Tense
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Racism in Environmentalism and Why it Matters
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There is No Shortage of Water
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Expansion is at the Root of the Problem
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What's the Deal with Water Marketing
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Great Salt Lake as Wasteland
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Water for City and Country in the late 20th century
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What's the Deal with Alfalfa
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The Case of Uphill Flowing Water
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A Short History of Water in the US West
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The Safety Valve
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The Second Treaty Era
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"Our Last Major Water Resource" -- The Central Utah Project
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Race to the Bottom -- The Law of the River
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The Sinful Rivers We Must Curb
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Free-for-all in the Uinta Basin
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Boosters and Crusaders, Megacities and the Safety Valve: Iterations on the Oldest New Idea in the West
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How (Not) to Make the Desert Blossom as the Rose
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The 100th Meridian: Where 'Free Land' Requires 'Free Water'
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The Agrarian Foundations of the Western Water Crisis
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Defensive Conquest and Victim Narratives
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Great Salt Lake and Western Water: Introduction
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