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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
"The Whites of this Country Are Against the Government"
Reclamation in the Prophetic Perfect Tense
Racism in Environmentalism and Why it Matters
There is No Shortage of Water
Expansion is at the Root of the Problem
What's the Deal with Water Marketing
Great Salt Lake as Wasteland
Water for City and Country in the late 20th century
What's the Deal with Alfalfa
The Case of Uphill Flowing Water
A Short History of Water in the US West
The Safety Valve
The Second Treaty Era
"Our Last Major Water Resource" -- The Central Utah Project
Race to the Bottom -- The Law of the River
The Sinful Rivers We Must Curb
Free-for-all in the Uinta Basin
Boosters and Crusaders, Megacities and the Safety Valve: Iterations on the Oldest New Idea in the West
How (Not) to Make the Desert Blossom as the Rose
The 100th Meridian: Where 'Free Land' Requires 'Free Water'
The Agrarian Foundations of the Western Water Crisis
Defensive Conquest and Victim Narratives
Great Salt Lake and Western Water: Introduction
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