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Nature or not?

Mule deer, Far View cafeteria, Mesa Verde, May 2014 Mule deer, in the grass outside the Far View cafeteria at Mesa Verde National Park. Is this nature? Create your free online surveys with SurveyMonkey...

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Why water markets are hard – what economists call “transaction costs”

Nathanael Johnson at Grist continues his excellent work digging past the noise to try to help us understand what’s really going on with California’s drought. Today it’s a deep dive into water markets,...

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Green versus green: removing Snake River dams

One of my University of New Mexico Water Resources Program colleagues frequently points out what they call “green versus green issues” – environmental tradeoffs that are often under-examined because...

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on apocalyptic environmental discourse

Clearly, the apocalyptic imaginary is unlikely to disappear from the popular global psyche any time soon. Despite this, we must resist catastrophic hyperbole, including the increasingly alarmist...

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On the importance of getting the boundaries right in water management and...

I’m working this weekend on two talks, one a webinar Wednesday with Audubon and the other a lecture for UNM Water Resources grad students Thursday, that both touch on one of the fundamental challenges...

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“reconciliation ecology” in the rice fields of California

Reconciliation ecology, the field’s founders say, “says we still have time to save most of the world’s species. But to do it, we must stop trying to put an end to civilization and human enterprise....

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Brad Udall’s western water climate change bibliography

Speaking earlier this month at the University of Colorado’s Martz Conference, Brad Udall offered what amounted to a bibliography, both helpful and deeply unnerving, of recent scientific literature...

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Albuquerque’s Rio Grande Oxbow

Rio Grande Oxbow, 2020-04-09, by John Fleck I was talking last week with one of my collaborators about the challenge of working. All the things that so fully occupied my time and brain seem so...

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Beavers and Bikes: a Coupled Human and Natural System

Rio Grande Beavers Build New Bike Rack Near Downtown AlbuquerqueThe post Beavers and Bikes: a Coupled Human and Natural System appeared first on jfleck at inkstain.

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The Distribution of Green

Rio Grande, Albuquerque, New Mexico; 1,430 cubic feet per second, May 6, 2021 Ima give this a fancy sciency-sounding patina: I walked a transect today across the ribbon of green the Rio Grande provides...

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