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RE: https://mastodon.social/@jens2go/115991321662610980
+ "raises a troubling question: Why would a museum anchor an object so securely that it can never be moved? Are they the rightful custodians of such artifacts, or merely jailers...movie reinforces what many already know: museums want to acquire objects without the burden of people and their associated cultures." re: #patrimony + more
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RE: https://mas.to/@namhenderson/115631208104400919
+ "Gros Morne provides some of the world’s best exhibits of the process of plate tectonics...dates back to around 1.2 billion years ago, when present-day North America collided with another continent" https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/147917/a-short-journey-to-the-center-of-the-earth see also https://gc.copernicus.org/preprints/gc-2020-2/gc-2020-2.pdf re: the "Cambrian–Ordovician boundary" #geologicaltime + some "site-specific ephemeral artworks" #landart
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"Why now, after decades...Maybe the world is finally catching up to what Carrington knew: imagination is a weapon, survival an art, and women’s stories are worth telling—especially the wild ones...This idea of being deeply human (while exploring non-human spheres) is at the core of Carrington’s work...her work radiates a feminist consciousness: women are at the center of the action, often shown in states of transformation, deep play, or occult work" https://publicdisplay.art/article/Leonora-Carrington re: #LeonoraCarrington
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"The 2025-26 ski season saw a 9 million-visit collapse in annual visitation following one of the worst seasons for snowfall in half a century in the West." https://coloradosun.com/2026/05/05/us-skier-visits-drop-2025-26 via @coloradosun re: #WaterintheWest et al.
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"The river’s flows at Lees Ferry are on a razor thin margin and could be low enough this year to trigger calls for forced cuts — or lawsuits to prevent them — depending, in part, on river management decisions being made over the next month. Some Lower Basin states seem primed to go to court." https://coloradosun.com/2026/03/27/colorado-river-states-potential-water-cuts-legal-battles/ via @coloradosun #WaterintheWest
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"It would cost tens of millions of dollars, $126 million by some estimates, to fully address the backlog of maintenance issues." https://coloradosun.com/2026/03/24/colorado-lawmakers-federal-action-tribal-water-access via @coloradosun #WaterintheWest
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RE: https://mstdn.social/@coloradosun/116240174495795699
"About 90% of the water consumed in Colorado goes to the agricultural sector" re: #WaterintheWest
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"The Colorado River headwaters’ snowpack sat at 66% of the median for this time of year on Monday — the lowest recorded level since measurements began in 1986...Other regions in the basin have fared better. Basinwide, precipitation amounts are similar to those recorded last season." https://www.denverpost.com/2026/03/09/colorado-river-drought-forecast-lake-powell/ re: #WaterintheWest
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"The shortage marks the difference between existing funding for water projects, generated through severance taxes and other sources, and the cost of projects the state has identified as necessary to make sure Colorado has enough water in coming years." https://coloradosun.com/2026/01/30/colorado-water-projects-funding-shortfall/ via @coloradosun re: #WaterintheWest
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RE: https://mas.to/@namhenderson/115920151815507545
+ "For now, none of the federal alternatives seem popular in any state, and the possibility of litigation is high, Wolff and other experts said." #WaterintheWest
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"The water rights connected to the plant are the oldest major water rights on the main stem of the Colorado River, which means that they must be fulfilled before any rights established afterward. Those include more junior rights held by Front Range utilities to divert water from the river and bring it under the Continental Divide to their customers" https://www.denverpost.com/2025/11/20/colorado-river-shoshone-water-rights-vote/ re: #WaterintheWest
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"The state’s snowpack is off to a slow start...Statewide precipitation was at 92% of normal as of Nov. 18...Most of that precipitation, however, came as rain...In each of Colorado’s major river basins, the snowpack still hovered between 20% and 33% of their 30-year norms as of mid-November. Zooming out across the West, snowpack wasn’t much better anywhere else... As of Tuesday, 1.3% of the state showed signs of extreme drought." https://coloradosun.com/2025/11/27/colorado-holiday-weekend-snow-slow-start-winter/ via @coloradosun re: #WaterintheWest
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“the river’s meandering ribbon ties together its more recent significance — as an engine for agriculture and, gradually, recreation — with a complicated history of westward expansion and native displacement from the water’s once heavily timbered banks that extended more than 60 miles west toward La Junta.” https://coloradosun.com/2025/11/02/arkansas-river-lamar-big-timbers-colorado-history/ via @coloradosun re: #BigTimbers #IndigenousLandscapes #WaterintheWest + more
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"Enter Colorado Parks and Wildlife, the agency still reeling through the controversy of trying to manage voter-mandated wolf reintroduction. This month, CPW is having to wade into the middle of the contentious beaver debate and come up with a management strategy for an animal considered a keystone species. That means an entire ecosystem would change drastically without the presence of beavers." https://coloradosun.com/2025/08/24/colorado-beavers-nuisance-or-necessity-cpw-wildlife-management/ via @coloradosun re: #WaterintheWest #rewilding et al.
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"McCombs says people should prepare themselves for more projects like the Michigan Ditch...is going to go on for the better part of every Coloradan’s life, as we answer our responsibility to steward landscapes for current and future generations." https://coloradosun.com/2025/08/22/wildfire-mitigation-tree-felling-colorado-fort-collins-water/ via @coloradosun #WaterintheWest et al.
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"Rather than basing water releases on reservoir levels, it would base the amount released from the system’s two major reservoirs on the amount of water flowing in the river. The new concept would be more responsive as river flows become more variable" https://www.denverpost.com/2025/07/05/colorado-river-negotiations-lake-powell-mead/ re: #WaterintheWest et al.
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"As of Monday, the water stored in all of the basin’s reservoirs was 42% of the total capacity...the spring runoff forecast is low for all of the federal reservoirs in the Upper Basin," https://coloradosun.com/2025/02/21/february-storms-relief-colorado-river-conditions-water-outlook-poor/ via @coloradosun re: #WaterintheWest et al.
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"Most cities use about 50% of their water supplies on landscapes outdoors...It’s a huge use of our water and we want to make sure it’s used wisely." https://coloradosun.com/2025/01/31/colorado-turf-bill-residential/ via @coloradosun re: #WaterintheWest et al.
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"You get a phone’s worth of neodymium coming down the mineralized tributary about every 5½ minutes...This translates to 96,000 phones per year. And what I think is the most striking fact in this is that this is for one tributary. You multiply this across hundreds of acid mine sites in Colorado and potentially thousands across the Western U.S. and it’s very exciting for resource extraction." https://aspenjournalism.org/rare-earth-elements-found-in-lincoln-creek-raise-new-questions/ re: #WaterintheWest et al.
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"According to Colorado State University it is one of the largest dry-ups of irrigated agricultural land in the West." https://coloradosun.com/2025/01/17/republican-river-compact-colorado-farmland-wells-retired/ via @coloradosun #WaterintheWest
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"It affirmed our long-held understanding of the law allocating nontributary groundwater, including in Denver Basin aquifers" https://coloradosun.com/2024/11/07/colorado-supreme-court-underground-water/ via @coloradosun re: #WaterintheWest et al.
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"Because so much water is used outdoors, Western cities face a fundamental question: As the region warms and dries, how much green space are they willing to part with to close the gap between supply and demand? It’ll be a tough call, but not an impossible one" https://coloradosun.com/2024/09/29/western-cities-population-growth-water/ via @coloradosun re: #climateurbanism #WaterintheWest et al.
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“If we're going to update this river system to be climate resilient, and if we're going to upgrade our infrastructure to deal with what climate change is handing us, we really have to take a hard look at bypassing Glen Canyon Dam" https://www.kunc.org/news/2024-04-12/a-plumbing-issue-at-this-lake-powell-dam-could-cause-big-trouble-for-western-water re: #WaterintheWest et al.
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"Ski resorts make up a tiny slice of Colorado’s overall water use, but they’ll likely need to boost their supply by about 41% by 2050, according to state estimates." https://coloradosun.com/2024/03/12/colorado-ski-resorts-climate-change-eldora-mountain/ via @ColoradoSun #WaterintheWest
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"The estimated water savings are about 12 gallons per square foot, or about 1.6 acre-feet per acre. Up to about 20,000 acre-feet of water statewide could be conserved through turf replacement by homeowners, and commercial, industrial and institutional property owners" https://coloradosun.com/2024/02/27/cost-replacing-grass-colorado via @coloradosun #WaterintheWest
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"Several Coloradans said they felt well-represented by Mitchell during the conference, including leaders of the two tribes with reservation land in Colorado, the Southern Ute and the Ute Mountain Ute." https://coloradosun.com/2024/01/02/colorado-river-negotiations-becky-mitchell-tribes/ via @coloradosun #WaterintheWest