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WaterSMART: The smartest water program you’ve never heard about
Drought. Wildfire. Flooding. Excessive Heat. Low snowpack. Look at any state in the West and you’re sure to find local examples of these extreme weather events and natural disasters. But while the challenges and headlines generated by these events are well known, the tools available to mitigate and combat their increasingly unpredictable impacts have received far less attention. …
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Thanks for those who serve
I was in my 20s and working for the Bureau of Land Management when the second longest shutdown of the federal government occurred. It lasted three weeks and was punctuated by “a storm like no other,” so I spent much of the three weeks shoveling neighbors’ sidewalks and helping push out snowbound cars. When the…
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Public Servants: An appreciation
I could name three dozen public servants who continue to inspire and motivate me, across many federal agencies.
Celebrating the good work of our federal agency partners When I was beginning my conservation career in the 1990s, a distinguished research hydrologist named Jack King let me stay with him in Idaho for a few months. It was there I had my first (and last) artichoke. When my actual talent was betrayed by my…
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Snake River Flows Secured, For Now
Near the dramatic jagged peaks of the Teton mountains sits Jackson Lake Dam. Built in the early 1900s by the Bureau of Reclamation to control lake levels for irrigation in Idaho and reduce flooding for a rising local population, Jackson Lake Dam drives water into the Snake River and its interconnected aquatic ecosystem. The Snake…
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