Currently reading: Rooted at the Edge: Ranching Where the Old West and New West Collide by Donna L. Erickson 📚 https://micro.blog/books/9781496240439

Currently reading: Coyote America by Dan Flores 📚 https://micro.blog/books/9780465098538

Finished reading: American Serengeti by Dan Flores 📚 https://micro.blog/books/9780700624669

Currently reading: The Wilderness Warrior by Douglas Brinkley 📚 https://micro.blog/books/9780061940576

Finished reading: Wild New World: The Epic Story of Animals and People in America by Dan Flores 📚 https://micro.blog/books/9781324006176

“The proposed legislation — which has not yet passed out of committee — repeatedly puts states and local governments ahead of tribal nations.” https://www.hcn.org/articles/public-land-sale-a-frontal-assault-on-tribal-treaty-rights/

The GOP sell-off of our public lands might be out of the budget bill for now, but don’t lose sight of this attack on the public lands too. https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2025/06/23/roadless-rule-public-lands-repeal/

With the mobile chicken coop project done I can finally get back to the Farmall H project.

Just bottled up my first ever batch of dandilion wine. We’ll know in about four to six months if it was worth all the work.

In brighter news, I had no idea James McMurtry released a new album. https://music.apple.com/us/album/the-black-dog-and-the-wandering-boy/1799797790

For my. newsletter, I wrote a brief history of the long history of attempts to sell the public lands. https://tack-and-ink.ghost.io/the-gop-has-tried-to-sell-public-lands-for-fifty-years/

Chicken update.

Finished reading: Crooked by Nathan Masters 📚 https://micro.blog/books/9780306826153

Currently reading: American Zion: A New History of Mormonism by Benjamin E. Park 📚 https://micro.blog/books/9781631498664

Currently reading: Wild New World: The Epic Story of Animals and People in America by Dan Flores 📚 https://micro.blog/books/9781324006176

Home from the archives, processing material and notes, while watching Gunsmoke. As you do.

Busy week at the archives!

Hello, Wyoming.

For Tack and Ink, I rounded up a few writings about public lands, farming, and extremism. https://buttondown.com/plainsink/archive/the-roundup-public-lands-farms-and-far-right/

Our smallest bantam rooster is apparently in charge of making sure everyone gets inside the coop every night. I’ve come to call him the Night Captain.