Morgan Sjogren
@morgansjogren.bsky.social
➸Writing about Western land & water from the 🤎 of the desert.
➸Path of Light—A Walk Through Colliding Legacies of Glen Canyon➸Utah Book Award Winner/Library of Congress Great Reads Selection
➸Stories: AZHighways, bioGraphic, Reasons to be Cheerful, Sierra
➸Path of Light—A Walk Through Colliding Legacies of Glen Canyon➸Utah Book Award Winner/Library of Congress Great Reads Selection
➸Stories: AZHighways, bioGraphic, Reasons to be Cheerful, Sierra
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Path of Light: A Walk Through Colliding Legacies of Glen Canyon has been chosen by the Utah Center for the Book to be included in the “Great Reads from Great Places” adult list for the 2025 National Book Festival of the Library of Congress!
Tomorrow I’m presenting on the Century Old Dream to protect Glen Canyon at the Rivers of Change Symposium. It’s appropriate timing as Colorado River states drag their feet to change archaic water policy as drought steadily returns Glen Canyon to fresh air (again). www.eventbrite.com/e/rivers-of-...
November 12, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Tomorrow I’m presenting on the Century Old Dream to protect Glen Canyon at the Rivers of Change Symposium. It’s appropriate timing as Colorado River states drag their feet to change archaic water policy as drought steadily returns Glen Canyon to fresh air (again). www.eventbrite.com/e/rivers-of-...
Sounds like every non-committal situationship to me!
Colorado River: States miss their deadline on a deal, but they’re still talking utahnewsdispatch.com/2025/11/11/c...
Colorado River: States miss their deadline on a deal, but they’re still talking • Utah News Dispatch
Utah and six other states don't have a deal on managing the dwindling Colorado River, but negotiations aren’t over.
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November 12, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Sounds like every non-committal situationship to me!
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Calling all writers rooted in the Colorado Plateau! The Entrada Institute’s Writer-in-Residence program offers $5,000 and up to two weeks in Torrey, Utah, to create work inspired by the region’s ecology, culture & history. Open to poets, fiction, and nonfiction writers of all levels. bit.ly/43fBAJp
2026 WRITING FROM THE LAND WORKSHOP - Entrada Institute
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November 7, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Calling all writers rooted in the Colorado Plateau! The Entrada Institute’s Writer-in-Residence program offers $5,000 and up to two weeks in Torrey, Utah, to create work inspired by the region’s ecology, culture & history. Open to poets, fiction, and nonfiction writers of all levels. bit.ly/43fBAJp
Books should be included on a menu to nourish our ability to learn, grow, question, resist, discuss, help each other, and advocate for the rights of nature, which includes humans. open.substack.com/pub/wildword... @hellsbackbonegrill.bsky.social
November 9, 2025 at 2:23 AM
Books should be included on a menu to nourish our ability to learn, grow, question, resist, discuss, help each other, and advocate for the rights of nature, which includes humans. open.substack.com/pub/wildword... @hellsbackbonegrill.bsky.social
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I just want to say that I’ve hiked a great deal on the Colorado Plateau and your dispatches reawaken my connection to those places. Thanks!
November 4, 2025 at 9:54 PM
I just want to say that I’ve hiked a great deal on the Colorado Plateau and your dispatches reawaken my connection to those places. Thanks!
As our human line of sight shrinks ever further into our phones, I believe it is critical right now to dream at a landscape scale. To seek a place, even in our backyards, where our strength and characters is drawn.
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Landscape Scale Dreaming
Walking home off the map.
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November 4, 2025 at 7:16 PM
As our human line of sight shrinks ever further into our phones, I believe it is critical right now to dream at a landscape scale. To seek a place, even in our backyards, where our strength and characters is drawn.
open.substack.com/pub/wildword...
open.substack.com/pub/wildword...
open.substack.com/pub/wildword...
open.substack.com/pub/wildword...
Meandering around the next bend. 〰️
October 29, 2025 at 3:09 AM
Meandering around the next bend. 〰️
Instead of writing last week, I was walking around dressed like Edward Abbey in the desert, apparently.
October 20, 2025 at 2:14 AM
Instead of writing last week, I was walking around dressed like Edward Abbey in the desert, apparently.
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Was visiting my dad with son and grandkid, missed this. There's a link to a comment by Oct 24th you might be interested in
We must point ourselves downstream, square up to the rapids, ready to carry ourselves and each other through the muck. Here are a few news items for you, desert rats, and far-flung lovers, to keep on your radar: open.substack.com/pub/wildword...
Navigating the Muck
River Notes from Labyrinth Canyon + Dizzying Desert Notes
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October 19, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Was visiting my dad with son and grandkid, missed this. There's a link to a comment by Oct 24th you might be interested in
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The ESA protects wildlife and its habitat by preventing illegal “Take“, a legal word meaning “harass, harm, shoot, wound, kill, trap, capture or collect or attempt to engage in any such conduct“ except by federal permit. Removing HARM protection will increase their greatest threat: habitat loss.
The Endangered Species Act has protected species and their habitats for over 50 years. A single word change could significantly alter the way the law is implemented. The only beneficiaries of this plan are extractive industries. 🌎 by @morgansjogren.bsky.social
This One Word Change Could Gut Our Strongest Conservation Law
The bipartisan Endangered Species Act is on the line as the federal government proposes a new change
www.sierraclub.org
October 5, 2025 at 6:11 PM
The ESA protects wildlife and its habitat by preventing illegal “Take“, a legal word meaning “harass, harm, shoot, wound, kill, trap, capture or collect or attempt to engage in any such conduct“ except by federal permit. Removing HARM protection will increase their greatest threat: habitat loss.
We must point ourselves downstream, square up to the rapids, ready to carry ourselves and each other through the muck. Here are a few news items for you, desert rats, and far-flung lovers, to keep on your radar: open.substack.com/pub/wildword...
Navigating the Muck
River Notes from Labyrinth Canyon + Dizzying Desert Notes
open.substack.com
October 14, 2025 at 10:29 PM
We must point ourselves downstream, square up to the rapids, ready to carry ourselves and each other through the muck. Here are a few news items for you, desert rats, and far-flung lovers, to keep on your radar: open.substack.com/pub/wildword...
Pushing a canoe downstream, it’s comical to imagine decision makers hanging foolishly onto the belief that they can continue to develop the West beyond its means with this vanishing river.
open.substack.com/pub/wildword...
open.substack.com/pub/wildword...
Navigating the Muck
River Notes from Labyrinth Canyon + Dizzying Desert Notes
open.substack.com
October 14, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Pushing a canoe downstream, it’s comical to imagine decision makers hanging foolishly onto the belief that they can continue to develop the West beyond its means with this vanishing river.
open.substack.com/pub/wildword...
open.substack.com/pub/wildword...
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The Endangered Species Act has protected species and their habitats for over 50 years. A single word change could significantly alter the way the law is implemented. The only beneficiaries of this plan are extractive industries. 🌎 by @morgansjogren.bsky.social
This One Word Change Could Gut Our Strongest Conservation Law
The bipartisan Endangered Species Act is on the line as the federal government proposes a new change
www.sierraclub.org
October 5, 2025 at 4:37 PM
The Endangered Species Act has protected species and their habitats for over 50 years. A single word change could significantly alter the way the law is implemented. The only beneficiaries of this plan are extractive industries. 🌎 by @morgansjogren.bsky.social
Momentary time travels to desert treks of yesteryear are vital escapism right now. 🤎
I couldn’t help myself. Your mention of Rudi Lambrechtse brought such a flood of memories, like in 1983 when we had to use the high trail from Coyote Gulch to the Escalante River because the confluence was flooded.
September 29, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Momentary time travels to desert treks of yesteryear are vital escapism right now. 🤎
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This is the way
"I did not want to be told where to go. I wanted to learn from the desert"
"I did not want to be told where to go. I wanted to learn from the desert"
When I’m 80, I hope to be hiking to protect public lands like my friend, Rudi Lambrechtse. substack.com/@wildwords/n...
Morgan Sjogren (@wildwords)
When I’m 80, I hope to be hiking to protect public lands like my friend, Rudi Lambrechtse.
substack.com
September 29, 2025 at 1:33 AM
This is the way
"I did not want to be told where to go. I wanted to learn from the desert"
"I did not want to be told where to go. I wanted to learn from the desert"
When I’m 80, I hope to be hiking to protect public lands like my friend, Rudi Lambrechtse. substack.com/@wildwords/n...
Morgan Sjogren (@wildwords)
When I’m 80, I hope to be hiking to protect public lands like my friend, Rudi Lambrechtse.
substack.com
September 29, 2025 at 12:30 AM
When I’m 80, I hope to be hiking to protect public lands like my friend, Rudi Lambrechtse. substack.com/@wildwords/n...
This fall I’m hitting the road for an encore Path of Light tour!🧡2 years after its release into the wild this book has taken on a life of its own. The best part has been connecting with readers who resonate with this story & the desert landscapes it advocates for. I hope to see you there!
September 24, 2025 at 9:53 PM
This fall I’m hitting the road for an encore Path of Light tour!🧡2 years after its release into the wild this book has taken on a life of its own. The best part has been connecting with readers who resonate with this story & the desert landscapes it advocates for. I hope to see you there!
Last chance to comment & defend the Roadless Rule! open.substack.com/pub/wildword...
Where we're going we don't need roads!
Last night to defend the Roadless Rule!
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September 19, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Last chance to comment & defend the Roadless Rule! open.substack.com/pub/wildword...
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Back to work after a blissful three-day vacation, and the leap in my anxiety and stress this morning is so considerable that I am really wondering if I should just throw in the towel on a career and commit myself to idleness and the quiet contemplation of beauty.
September 8, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Back to work after a blissful three-day vacation, and the leap in my anxiety and stress this morning is so considerable that I am really wondering if I should just throw in the towel on a career and commit myself to idleness and the quiet contemplation of beauty.
Though I may never see Path of Light on the shelf, I know it is real. That is, a bound book I spent 5 years writing & walking to complete will live in the Library of Congress’s book canyons. The stories in Path of Light are already archived in the desert. open.substack.com/pub/wildword...
September 3, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Though I may never see Path of Light on the shelf, I know it is real. That is, a bound book I spent 5 years writing & walking to complete will live in the Library of Congress’s book canyons. The stories in Path of Light are already archived in the desert. open.substack.com/pub/wildword...
We slept beside the same river, or its tributaries, every single night. The absence of the river song that haunts me with a new loneliness. Not just for the river, but for the creatures we shared it with. 🪶🤎 open.substack.com/pub/wildword...
Listening to the More-Than-Human
The days are stacked against what we think we are.
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August 29, 2025 at 6:38 PM
We slept beside the same river, or its tributaries, every single night. The absence of the river song that haunts me with a new loneliness. Not just for the river, but for the creatures we shared it with. 🪶🤎 open.substack.com/pub/wildword...
90 Miles From Needles’ 100th Episode: Morgan Sjogren shares an evocative reading from her book Path of Light-A Walk Through Colliding Legacies of Glen Canyon discussing uranium mining's impact on red rock country & broader implications for desert landscapes www.90milesfromneedles.com/s4e26-episod...
S4E26: Episode 100 | Morgan Sjogren's Tales of Beauty, Rage, and Uranium
Morgan Sjogren shares an evocative reading from her recent book Path of Light : A Walk Through Colliding Legacies of Glen Canyon discussing uranium mining's impact …
www.90milesfromneedles.com
August 10, 2025 at 7:03 PM
90 Miles From Needles’ 100th Episode: Morgan Sjogren shares an evocative reading from her book Path of Light-A Walk Through Colliding Legacies of Glen Canyon discussing uranium mining's impact on red rock country & broader implications for desert landscapes www.90milesfromneedles.com/s4e26-episod...
On Thursday, I will be joining the podcast 90 Miles From Needles to celebrate their 100th episode. The event is live on Zoom, Thursday, August 7 at 7:00 pm PST:
90milesfromneedles.com/100 (Meeting ID: 874 3735 7514).
90milesfromneedles.com/100 (Meeting ID: 874 3735 7514).
August 5, 2025 at 4:09 PM
On Thursday, I will be joining the podcast 90 Miles From Needles to celebrate their 100th episode. The event is live on Zoom, Thursday, August 7 at 7:00 pm PST:
90milesfromneedles.com/100 (Meeting ID: 874 3735 7514).
90milesfromneedles.com/100 (Meeting ID: 874 3735 7514).
Even if we only focus on wildfires, there is much to unpack about the way we have suppressed these natural processes. I would like to look beyond the villain and into our grief. Even for just a moment. Grief mirrors what we hold dear.
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Dreaming with the Pines
Smoke scattering the ashes of Ponderosa love letters.
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August 4, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Even if we only focus on wildfires, there is much to unpack about the way we have suppressed these natural processes. I would like to look beyond the villain and into our grief. Even for just a moment. Grief mirrors what we hold dear.
open.substack.com/pub/wildword...
open.substack.com/pub/wildword...
“Wasting Time.” That was the subject line of an email from publisher Brett Van Emst requesting a short submission with a tight turnaround. I replied with a list of excuses. That email is what he published as “Bad Capitalist” in issue eight. wildwords.substack.com/p/wasting-time
July 28, 2025 at 6:19 PM
“Wasting Time.” That was the subject line of an email from publisher Brett Van Emst requesting a short submission with a tight turnaround. I replied with a list of excuses. That email is what he published as “Bad Capitalist” in issue eight. wildwords.substack.com/p/wasting-time