Salt Lakes - An Unnatural History, @cetracey.bsky.social A fun mashup of salt lake ecology and geology, environmental history, and queer travel memoir? Might not be an obvious mix but it works, and I learned a lot about phalaropes 🪶 37/
Caroline Tracey
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escritora aridoamericana / Salt Lakes: An Unnatural History out now from WW Norton / cetracey.com
“In 1930 two civil engineers from the University of Utah wrote a proposal, ‘Putting Great Salt Lake to Work,’” writes @cetracey.bsky.social. “They never followed through due to a lack of financing, among other concerns, but the idea didn’t go away.”
Putting the Lake to Work | Caroline Tracey
In November 2022, the Great Salt Lake dropped to a record-low water level. That winter, dust blew off newly exposed patches of the lakebed, clouding the
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Caroline Tracey (@cetracey.bsky.social) on the long history of proposals to suck up profits from the Great Salt Lake
Putting the Lake to Work | Caroline Tracey
In November 2022, the Great Salt Lake dropped to a record-low water level. That winter, dust blew off newly exposed patches of the lakebed, clouding the
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“To reach the goal of bringing 800,000 acre-feet per year to the [Great Salt Lake] and to stave off disaster, it’s the changes to water law and the redistribution programs that need to be expanded, rapidly and heartily.” —@cetracey.bsky.social
Putting the Lake to Work | Caroline Tracey
In November 2022, the Great Salt Lake dropped to a record-low water level. That winter, dust blew off newly exposed patches of the lakebed, clouding the
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www.nybooks.com/online/2026/... In 2024 I spent a month doing archival research in Utah. What I found surprised me: again and again, from the 1930s to the 1980s, Utah state leaders had made plans to drain the eastern half of Great Salt Lake. Happy to tell the tale in a new article in @nybooks.com:
Putting the Lake to Work | Caroline Tracey
In November 2022, the Great Salt Lake dropped to a record-low water level. That winter, dust blew off newly exposed patches of the lakebed, clouding the
nybooks.com
www.nybooks.com/online/2026/... In 2024 I spent a month doing archival research in Utah. What I found surprised me: again and again, from the 1930s to the 1980s, Utah state leaders had made plans to drain the eastern half of Great Salt Lake. Happy to tell the tale in a new article in @nybooks.com:
Putting the Lake to Work | Caroline Tracey
In November 2022, the Great Salt Lake dropped to a record-low water level. That winter, dust blew off newly exposed patches of the lakebed, clouding the
nybooks.com
"A strange ecosystem and a moving odyssey." Today's #history book pick from Damn History, a free monthly newsletter for readers/writers of #popularhistory. Congrats to author @cetracey.bsky.social & @wwnorton.com! Read/subscribe to Damn History: damn-history-16d93f.beehiiv.com/subscribe
Can’t wait to read Salt Lakes by @cetracey.bsky.social! Listen to this interview and go order a copy. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/n...
Caroline Tracey,
Podcast Episode · New Books Network · April 3 · 46m
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A Q&A with Human Rights Archaeologist Gabriella Soto www.theborderchronicle.com/a-q-a-with-h... from: @cetracey.bsky.social at @theborderchronicle.bsky.social
A Q&A with Human Rights Archaeologist Gabriella Soto
“For a long time, a big proportion of the American public said that border security was their most important issue. People are starting to realize what that means in terms of the violence entailed.”
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Hoy sale en @nexosmexico.bsky.social mi traducción al español del artículo sobre la desaparición de la base de datos del Colibri Center for Human Rights, originalmente publicado en @highcountrynews.org y @theborderchronicle.bsky.social. Compártanlo, pls redaccion.nexos.com.mx/una-base-de-...
Una base de datos menos para los desaparecidos de la frontera norte
Durante una década, la organización Colibrí Center for Human Rights ofreció un vínculo vital entre familias de migrantes desaparecidos y sus seres queridos extraviados. Ahora, ¿dónde está?
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An important DNA database that has helped hundreds of families find their missing loved ones has vanished. Reporters @cetracey.bsky.social and Gabriel Schivone investigate what happened and also report on how NGOs could get it back, if it hasn't already been destroyed.
The Border Chronicle@theborderchronicle.bsky.social · 4mo agoThe Colibrí Center's DNA database, built to identify migrants who died crossing the border and reunite families, has gone dark since fall 2024. A board member says it may be destroyed. Hundreds of families are left without answers. In collaboration with @highcountrynews.org 🔗🦂
Had the pleasure of getting to interview @cetracey.bsky.social about her new book Salt Lakes: An Unnatural History.
Caroline Tracey, "Salt Lakes: An Unnatural History" (W. W. Norton, 2026) - New Books Network
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www.theborderchronicle.com/the-dna-arch... Sharing this newly published investigation, coreported by me and a colleague. The DNA database crucial in migrant identification in the borderlands for years has itself gone missing. Co-published by @theborderchronicle.bsky.social and @highcountrynews.org
The DNA Archive Built to Identify the Border’s Missing Has Vanished
The Colibrí Center for Human Rights was a vital link between families and their missing loved ones. But now it's gone dark.
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Reviewed @cetracey.bsky.social's debut SALT WATERS for @thebaffler.com. It's a fascinating book, one that pushes us to consider what a land ethic oriented around restoration — rather than conservation — might look like: thebaffler.com/latest/troub...
Troubled Salt Waters | Kyle Paoletta
Caroline Tracey’s “Salt Lakes” is less the jeremiad of an outraged conservationist than a tender bildungsroman.
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Join @cetracey.bsky.social on APRIL 2 at the Fisher Fine Arts Library in Philly for a reading, conversation, & book-signing of her debut book SALT LAKES: AN UNNATURAL HISTORY! For more event details, including notes on accommodations, please visit the event page: www.design.upenn.edu/events/carol...
Recommended read: @highcountrynews.org interviewed journalist @cetracey.bsky.social about her new book on saline lakes – such as Utah’s Great Salt Lake – the threats that face them and what they can teach us.
What can we learn from salt lakes? - High Country News
Caroline Tracey’s debut essay collection documents the decline of salt lakes, and what their strange ecosystems can teach us about confronting the losses of climate change.
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@cetracey.bsky.social explores the relationship between Andrei Tarkovsky’s Stalker and salt lakes.
How Andrei Tarkovsky Taught Me to Write About the American West
In 1983, Telluride Film Festival co-founder Tom Luddy took Russian filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky on a road trip. Tarkovsky’s film Nostalghia was going to screen at the event. They drove from Lud…
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Coverage out today of @cetracey.bsky.social’s fabulous new book “Salt Lakes: An Unnatural History” and her upcoming appearance on Monday to discuss it at @changinghands.bsky.social bookstore in Phoenix. @azcentral.com @wwnorton.com www.azcentral.com/story/news/l...
Author to discuss salt lakes, queerness and climate change in Phoenix
Tucson writer Caroline Tracey explored the unusual world of salt lakes and wrote about them in a new book.
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Join Places author @cetracey.bsky.social this Thursday, April 2nd for a special reading from, and conversation about, her debut book, SALT LAKES: AN UNNATURAL HISTORY. This event is free & open to the public @upenn.edu's Fisher Fine Arts Library. Philly folks, don't miss it!
Caroline Tracey: Salt Lakes
Caroline Eaton Tracey is a writer and geographer whose work focuses on the US Southwest, Mexico, and their borderlands. Her first book, a hybrid memoir titled Salt Lakes: An Unnatural History, will be...
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SALT LAKES, a glorious debut by @cetracey.bsky.social, is out next week. Catch her on the road, including at P&T Knitwear in NYC on 3/18 with Jake Bittle...
A bank heist mystery. A woman looking back on her life. A sizzling romcom. The history of American bird conservation. These are just some of the great stories in this week's collection of new #books ft. @ibramxk.bsky.social, @staceyleeauthor.bsky.social, @cetracey.bsky.social, & more! #BookSky
Best New Books: Week of 3/17/26
New books by Ibram X. Kendi, Benjamin Stevenson, Elle Kennedy, Elizabth Berg, Demi Lovato, and more.
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How did California's Mono Lake revolutionize environmental law? @cetracey.bsky.social on the legal fights over water use and air quality regulations and tribal resource rights. zps.la/4bpq4OK
The Lonely Lake That Revolutionized American Environmental Law | Essay
In the 1970s and 1980s, Battles to Preserve Mono Lake Set New Protection Precedents
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Congratulations to @cetracey.bsky.social on publication day for her debut book of essays, "Salt Lakes: An Unnatural History." Wonderful writing, reporting and thought! Highly recommend checking it out🧂 🌊 www.hcn.org/issues/58-3/...
What can we learn from salt lakes? - High Country News
Caroline Tracey’s debut essay collection documents the decline of salt lakes, and what their strange ecosystems can teach us about confronting the losses of climate change.
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Exciting news: 🧂🌊 SALT LAKES TOUR DATES! 🪰🙌 Join me this spring! Details are on most of the venues' websites, but please let me know if you have any questions and I'll do my best to help out.
Exciting developments this AM: 1. A LEGITIMATE SNOW STORM!!! 2. @cetracey.bsky.social’s new @wwnorton.com book “Salt Lakes: An Unnatural History” arrived in the mail! (Tracey worked on it as visiting fellow 2 years ago here at the @byureddcenter.bsky.social) Woot woot!!! amzn.to/3ZIVaf0
Interview out today with @cetracey.bsky.social for @theborderchronicle.bsky.social. I'm always grateful for a thoughtful interview with someone who has given the work a close read. Listen here: www.theborderchronicle.com/gunfights-gu...
Gunfights Gunfights Gunfights
Logan Phillips was born in Tombstone, Arizona—a town best known for Old West-themed gunfight tourism. In his new book, Reckon, Phillips explores his relationship to the unusual setting of his childhoo...
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Though California’s Imperial Valley might offer the world’s highest sugar beet tonnages, a mixture of lower production costs, modernized processing plants, and federal sugar policies have pushed the crop toward the upper Midwest. Contributor @cetracey.bsky.social reports. ⬇️
After 150 Years, California’s Sugar Beet Industry Comes to an End
The Imperial Valley might be the best place in the world to grow beets. What went wrong with the California industry?
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I joined @danielrothberg.bsky.social for the first video edition of his newsletter, Invisible Waters—imo the best resource for staying up to date about what’s going on with water in the West—to talk about my forthcoming book, Salt Lakes: substack.com/@cetracey/no...
