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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.
 • Josh Jackson
Dispatch #36 - A few of my Favorite Things from 2025 (or) Stuff That Sparked Joy
Plus a power outage on Christmas eve.
 • Josh Jackson
Dispatch #35 - Whitney Pocket
Notes on David Foster Wallace's "build up some machinery" + stories + happy holidays.
 • Josh Jackson
Dispatch #34 - Gold Butte National Monument, Nevada
Award nominations, plus teaser images from a spectacular landscape.
 • Josh Jackson
Dispatch #33 - A Rock Called Snaggletooth
Searching for the desert tortoise and what Thomas Berry calls a "sense of the sacred."
 • 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.
 • 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
 • Josh Jackson
Dispatch #30 - King Range National Conservation Area - Part 3
Maps, motion, and the memory of arrival.
 • 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.
 • 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.
 • Josh Jackson
Dispatch #27 - Mount Irish Petroglyph Site, Nevada
The News Is Not Good + I SCARED A COW and the COW SCARED ME
 • Josh Jackson
Dispatch #26 - A Short Film from Nevada's BLM Lands
A quiet passage through the sagebrush, rivers, mountains, and wildflowers of Nevada.
 • Josh Jackson
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