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Land Issues

 

This Land

Many conflicts - currently, historically, the world over - are conflicts about land. These stories are never black and white, but always highly nuanced. Perhaps that’s why I like making them. I also love maps.

 

Why Native Hawaiians Protesting Giant Telescope on Mauna Kea Aren’t Going Anywhere

A community of resistance forms on Mauna Kea.

Bulldozing wilderness areas for a new border wall

A 30 year plan to protect the river is reversed.

A mormon utopia arrives in vermont

Joseph Smith’s Plat documents in practice.

Staking a Claim in Bears Ears

President Trump opened the Bears Ears National Monument to new mining claims. I went to stake one.

It’s Millionaires vs. Billionaires
At This Hawaiian resort

A very different type of territorial dispute from the Big Island.

Should anti-terrorism bollards look pretty?

How we are barricading our urban areas

New trespassing bill in idaho

A conservative state divided.

Staking a claim: Part Two

How to navigate the 1872 Mining Act.