➸Wild Words from the🤎of the Colorado River Watershed
➸Path of Light—A Walk Through Colliding Legacies of Glen Canyon
➸Next: Riverside (Torrey House Press ‘27), Desert Maverick (Lyons Press ‘28)
Morgan Sjogren
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I am living in a surreal time scale. The water released from Flaming Gorge Dam tomorrow will meet me at the confluence of the Green and Colorado Rivers next week. the news is racing ahead of the river, but decision-making is lagging far behind. open.substack.com/pub/wildword... #coloradoriver
No, I did not interview any Colorado River policy experts this week. I sat on a raft & listened to farmers, kids, businessmen, physicians, big horn sheep, & guides. The river creates a better invitation to be curious about such matters than another doomed headline. open.substack.com/pub/wildword...
"At @protectwildutah.bsky.social we are not shy about asking people outside of UT to join us in speaking up for protecting public lands in UT…we urge people to tell their elected officials to speak up for public lands, sacred sites & intact ecosystems in UT-because our politicians won’t."
Technoexistentialism and questions about data centers in Utah. open.substack.com/pub/wildword...
The best places to write are where the wifi cannot find me. Also, my co-author, the Colorado River watershed, requires daily in person workshopping.
Beautiful essay, Melissa. 🤎
It’s telling that even @jfleck.bsky.social is burning out in Colorado River Basin dysfunction & is turning his “attention to the local level, which is where the problem solving responsibility seems to rest right now.” Gulp. 🚰🚱🥃🔫🌊
Want to learn more about the Colorado River *on* the river? There are 5 spots left on Glen Canyon Institute’s Cataract Canyon trip, June 11-15. We will witness Glen Canyon coming back to life, time travel through history, talk policy, & explore this evolving landscape. glencanyon.org/product/2026...
My carousel of nature photos, taken on a day offline between mega deadlines, turned technoexistential in a blink. When we turn the lens on ourselves, that is, make it about us humans, we must be prepared to see harsh, unfiltered truths.
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Long live the dirt roads that remind us of this region’s complicated human and geological history. These bumpy roads remain portals, for tourists & locals, that affirm the needed protections for Grand Staircase-Escalante/Glen Canyon landscapes. open.substack.com/pub/wildword...
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#ColoradoRiver Basin – new report from my colleagues on the implications of running on empty -- John Fleck (InkStain.net) #COriver #aridification coyotegulch.blog/2026/06/09/c...
Coyote Gulch
Keeping up with the Green River means falling behind Colorado River news.
There’s no way to sugarcoat it: Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument is under attack. The elected officials behind 2025’s failed public lands sell-off attempts – Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) and Re...
The new issue of About Place includes my brief essay "Landslide." It's about loss, interconnected ecological and human health, and the ocean. Give it a read. #writing #climatechange #ecology aboutplacejournal.org/issues/the-g...
Technoexistentialism and questions about data centers.
In 2026, GCI's Member Trip will return to Cataract Canyon on the Colorado River with Holiday River Expeditions. This 5-day Cataract Canyon trip begins on June 11th, 2026 and takes out on June 15th. Al...
