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.