Morgan Sjogren
@morgansjogren.bsky.social
➸Wild Words from the🤎of the Colorado River Watershed ➸Author: Path of Light—A Walk Through Colliding Legacies of Glen Canyon ➸Next: Riverside〰️a Colorado River book (Torrey House Press ‘27) ➸Glen Canyon Backcountry Club guided backpacking
Christian Science Monitor took the time to interview locals about the reductions to Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument.
Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance@protectwildutah.bsky.social · 2w agoA really great look into the history and beauty that is Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument: www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics...
Slams laptop open for the weekend. Deadline season.
This is one of my favorite bands and a California gem. The new single is damn good. Check ‘em out. Cc: @morgansjogren.bsky.social
I See Hawks in L.A@iseehawksinla.bsky.social · 2w agoNew Hawks single coming Tuesday 8/4!
I don’t have a subtitle for my new book yet, but “Writing about drought while the administration floods the zone” is the current vibe. #coloradoriver #sos
In the years leading up to the 2026 Colorado River decision, Tribes, environmental groups, and water rights holders hoped for a more transparent and collaborative decision-making process. Instead, the opposite happened. wildwords.substack.com/p/flash-floo...
How kind of Reclamation to finally reach out to us––the forty million citizens of the watershed who can receive email. The river, riparian habitat, and wildlife will find out during the next water year’s flow regime changes. #coloradoriver open.substack.com/pub/wildword...
Flash Flood Alert! Feds Release New Colorado River plan. open.substack.com/pub/wildword... #coloradoriver
Flash Flood Alert
Feds Spill New Colorado River Plans Amid Constant Barrage of Bad Environmental News
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Have you ever dreamt about writing while floating through Glen Canyon? It can happen this fall, October 9-11 at the Marble Canyon Writing Retreat. pronghornexpeditions.com/retreats/?fb...
As a data center developer moves its project forward on federal land in Boulder City using an unusual regulatory mechanism, a heated land use debate has sparked appeals and a resolution in Congress that would ban data centers on federal land. STORY: lvrj.com/post/3855691
This is not our first monument reduction rodeo, but aside from the much larger reductions––90%––what hit differently this time was the lies. open.substack.com/pub/wildword...
You Can Literally Walk Everywhere
Countering lies and attacks on National Monuments (together) one step at a time.
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Played an open-mic in southern Utah a few months ago. Here's a "Song For The People of Bears Ears." www.youtube.com/watch?v=em_V... Some folks down there near the monument liked the Grand Staircase song that's been revised a few times since the 90's when I wrote it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6wz...
No To Coal (Song for Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument)
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Desert environmental journalist Chris Clarke explores the challenges and opportunities of the American Southwest's fragile but vibrant ecosystems. Morgan is a writer based mostly in the wilds of the Colorado Plateau, and the author of Path of Light: A Walk Through Colliding Legacies of Glen Canyon.🌎
Morgan Sjogren@morgansjogren.bsky.social · last mo.I sat with the Escalante River & joined 90 Miles from Needles in conversation about the attacks on National Monuments. I’m grateful for the nuanced dialogue focused on relationships with these landscapes & the impacts on local/Indigenous communities. www.90milesfromneedles.com/s5e22-morgan...
I sat with the Escalante River & joined 90 Miles from Needles in conversation about the attacks on National Monuments. I’m grateful for the nuanced dialogue focused on relationships with these landscapes & the impacts on local/Indigenous communities. www.90milesfromneedles.com/s5e22-morgan...
S5E22: Morgan Sjogren on the War on Utah's National Monuments
This episode covers recent threats to Utah's Bears Ears and Grand Staircase Escalante National Monuments under the Trump administration. We talk to Morgan Sjogren, …
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You are being LIED to. National Monuments do not restrict access to public lands. You can read past monument proclamations, take a hike (or drive, or camping trip) to find out for yourself, or ask locals who spend time in Grand Staircase-Escalante and Bears Ears National Monuments everyday.
Every page of this next book will be splashed with muddy water and dusted with sand. It’s a restless time in the arena of Colorado River watershed (mis)management & I’m doing my best to keep up with the river. 🤎🌀 #riverside #coloradoriver #officevibes
Hold your elders close: love letter to a burning landscape wildwords.substack.com/p/hold-your-...
Hold your elders close
Love letter to a burning landscape
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At the point in the Colorado River book writing process where interviewing a geologist somehow eases my existential crisis.
For nine months, I’ve been cooking up more than two new books…Aaron and I are so ready to go hiking in the desert with you this Fall. Introducing Glen Canyon Backcountry Club open.substack.com/pub/wildword...
Glen Canyon Backcountry Club
Custom backpacking trips & private day hikes in Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument
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Sen. Mike Lee is trying to pass rescinding the Roadless Rule as fire management, but it is a lie. Most wildfires are human-caused, & the majority start within a half mile of a road. And by the way, Utah is on fire right now. open.substack.com/pub/wildword...
Bumpy Roads
Tumultuous terrain on public lands in Utah
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Rough roads and tumultuous terrain lead to the public lands issues boiling in Utah. wildwords.substack.com/p/bumpy-road...
Bumpy Roads
Tumultuous terrain on public lands in Utah
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Drinking Song: Muddy water vs. the infrastructure, and seven people, that stand like a dam on the #ColoradoRiver; "Protecting what we love is a journey without end" -- Morgan Sjogren (wildwords.substack.com) #COriver #aridification coyotegulch.blog/2026/06/22/d...
Pour some whiskey in the river. The Colorado River stalemate darkens with new input from UT Sen. Mike Lee (fresh off his latest failure to meddle with public lands) and the increasing potential for involvement from the WH. open.substack.com/pub/wildword... #coloradoriver
Drinking Song
Muddy water vs. the infrastructure, and people, that stand like a dam.
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What would happen if the 7 “Colorado River state negotiators” stood together in the river? open.substack.com/pub/wildword...
With tin cups filled with muddy water, this moment asks us to stand with all who have defended the Colorado River in the past & will continue on into the future. Protecting what we love is a journey without end. open.substack.com/pub/wildword... #coloradoriver
Drinking Song
Muddy water vs. the infrastructure, and people, that stand like a dam.
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I’m so grateful for our time on the Green & Colorado River @kerrieneet.bsky.social! 🤎 #restoreglencanyon
Wild Places in the Southwest USA@kerrieneet.bsky.social · 2mo ago“Rivertime”. My pace is slower now and I am savoring it before I return to higher speeds. #WaterWednesday #CataractCanyon #boating #Utah #AppreciatePublicLands #GlenCanyonInstitute #GCI
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. 🚰🚱🥃🔫🌊
Coyote Gulch@coyotegulch.bsky.social · 2mo ago#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...
