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Written and Visual Dispatches from BLM lands across the American West

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Dispatch #39 - Climbing Inside the Amboy Crater

Plus my book won an award!

Feb 1 • Josh Jackson

Dispatch #38 - A Valley Called Bahsahwahbee

Some notes from three winter days last week with tribal elders in Spring Valley, Nevada

Jan 25 • Josh Jackson

Dispatch #37 - The Trona Pinnacles

Remembering the life altering trip with my kids that started this whole obsession with BLM lands. And, of course, the Tufas.

Jan 18 • Josh Jackson

Dispatch #36 - A few of my Favorite Things from 2025 (or) Stuff That Sparked Joy

Plus a power outage on Christmas eve.

Dec 28, 2025 • Josh Jackson

Dispatch #35 - Whitney Pocket

Notes on David Foster Wallace's "build up some machinery" + stories + happy holidays.

Dec 21, 2025 • Josh Jackson

Dispatch #34 - Gold Butte National Monument, Nevada

Award nominations, plus teaser images from a spectacular landscape.

Dec 14, 2025 • Josh Jackson

Dispatch #33 - A Rock Called Snaggletooth

Searching for the desert tortoise and what Thomas Berry calls a "sense of the sacred."

Nov 30, 2025 • Josh Jackson

Dispatch #32 - McCain Valley Resource Conservation Area

In-Ko-Pah mountains, mythical Old Highway 80, and a sunrise timelapse from one of my favorite campgrounds.

Nov 23, 2025 • Josh Jackson

Dispatch #31 - Cadiz Dunes Wilderness

Thank heaven, it's desert season in the southwest. Plus stories: Getting buried in sand, tow trucks, and a Swiss bicyclist

Nov 16, 2025 • Josh Jackson

Dispatch #30 - King Range National Conservation Area - Part 3

Maps, motion, and the memory of arrival.

Nov 2, 2025 • Josh Jackson

Dispatch #29 - King Range National Conservation Area - Part 2

Mossy firs, mystery man John McAbery, Punta Gorda Lighthouse, and a short story about a skunk.

Oct 26, 2025 • Josh Jackson

Dispatch #28 - King Range National Conservation Area - Part 1

Lost Coast dreaming…is this the holy grail of BLM lands? Plus, love notes from San Francisco.

Oct 19, 2025 • Josh Jackson

Forgotten Lands Project

Forgotten Lands Project

Written and visual dispatches from our least understood, least protected, and largely unknown public lands managed by the BLM. Part guidebook, inspiration, and travelogue.

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