Morgan Sjogren
@morgansjogren.bsky.social
➸Writing about Western land & water from the🤎of the Colorado River Watershed
➸Path of Light—A Walk Through Colliding Legacies of Glen Canyon (2025 Utah Book Award Winner/Library of Congress Great Reads Selection)
➸Next: Riverside (Torrey House Press, 2027)
➸Path of Light—A Walk Through Colliding Legacies of Glen Canyon (2025 Utah Book Award Winner/Library of Congress Great Reads Selection)
➸Next: Riverside (Torrey House Press, 2027)
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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!
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This op-ed explains a lot about McCay's effort to destroy this tax relief program for low-income seniors. He's worked against it for years.
www.deseret.com/opinion/2026...
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Opinion: SB78 attacks tax relief for low-income seniors
This legislation targets the wrong program for cost savings and will severely impact our senior population.
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February 14, 2026 at 4:31 PM
This op-ed explains a lot about McCay's effort to destroy this tax relief program for low-income seniors. He's worked against it for years.
www.deseret.com/opinion/2026...
www.deseret.com/opinion/2026...
Living our best life in the West requires a healthy Colorado River. Do state leaders care?
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February 15, 2026 at 6:22 PM
Living our best life in the West requires a healthy Colorado River. Do state leaders care?
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How to Plant a Billion Trees comes out in two weeks. I am so honored that the book is graces with an endorsement from Luis Alberto Urrea: "Nicole Walker’s How to Plant a Billion Trees gives me hope. It has resonance and life, and will always be on my shelf."
February 5, 2026 at 6:11 PM
How to Plant a Billion Trees comes out in two weeks. I am so honored that the book is graces with an endorsement from Luis Alberto Urrea: "Nicole Walker’s How to Plant a Billion Trees gives me hope. It has resonance and life, and will always be on my shelf."
Field notes from beside a thirsty river and some book news! #ColoradoRiver
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February 5, 2026 at 5:24 PM
Field notes from beside a thirsty river and some book news! #ColoradoRiver
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I wonder what her Grand Canyon route will be? Adventure aside, her message about the Colorado River’s future is clear and correct. Are the people with puppet strings to the pipelines & dams listening?
An Ultrarunner plans to run the 1,800-mile span of the Colorado River from the headwaters in Colorado’s Rocky Mountains to the Colorado River Delta outside of Mexicali, Mexico, before finishing in Los Angeles. And it's all for awareness.
FULL STORY: lvrj.com/post/3615579
FULL STORY: lvrj.com/post/3615579
February 4, 2026 at 3:35 AM
I wonder what her Grand Canyon route will be? Adventure aside, her message about the Colorado River’s future is clear and correct. Are the people with puppet strings to the pipelines & dams listening?
2016: On Keeping an Instagram
The art of not forgetting who we are.
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January 23, 2026 at 8:14 PM
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Entsminger put a 5-year idea on the table at CRWUA2025. Problem is the current state of the basin is dire. No snowpack on top of a dry year in 2025. Time to decommission Glen Canyon Dam.
Wait, wasn’t there already a deadline? The can continues bouncing down the very dry and dusty road alongside the #ColoradoRiver.
Federal Water Tap, December 22, 2025: Interior Sets New Colorado River Agreement Deadline www.circleofblue.org/newsletter/f...
December 23, 2025 at 12:51 AM
Entsminger put a 5-year idea on the table at CRWUA2025. Problem is the current state of the basin is dire. No snowpack on top of a dry year in 2025. Time to decommission Glen Canyon Dam.
Wait, wasn’t there already a deadline? The can continues bouncing down the very dry and dusty road alongside the #ColoradoRiver.
Federal Water Tap, December 22, 2025: Interior Sets New Colorado River Agreement Deadline www.circleofblue.org/newsletter/f...
Federal Water Tap, December 22, 2025: Interior Sets New Colorado River Agreement Deadline
● Colorado River states have been given less than two months to agree on how to share water cuts from the shrinking river. ● Homeland Security waives environmental laws to speed the construction of a ...
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December 23, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Wait, wasn’t there already a deadline? The can continues bouncing down the very dry and dusty road alongside the #ColoradoRiver.
Such a memorable river trip with @melissasevigny.bsky.social. Historic inscriptions are fascinating in their complexity, part vandalism part critical documentation. One thing is certain: don’t even think about scratching your name in the rocks today!
Chased down the NEVILLS EXPEDITION '38 inscription on the Green River earlier this year - though it's nearly obliterated by vandalism. (Yes, I suppose the original inscription was also vandalism... but at a time when there was comparatively little access to this area.) 📷 @morgansjogren.bsky.social
December 22, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Such a memorable river trip with @melissasevigny.bsky.social. Historic inscriptions are fascinating in their complexity, part vandalism part critical documentation. One thing is certain: don’t even think about scratching your name in the rocks today!
Happy solstice! Don’t forget to look up! 🌞https://open.substack.com/pub/wildwords/p/solsticing?r=73kg&utm_medium=ios
December 22, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Happy solstice! Don’t forget to look up! 🌞https://open.substack.com/pub/wildwords/p/solsticing?r=73kg&utm_medium=ios
There is a major Colorado River water conference this week. Instead of attending as a journalist, I am touring Hohokam canals, bighorn guzzlers, and modern water infrastructure. I’m more interested in what the watershed has to say. open.substack.com/pub/wildword...
Desert Water Archives
The big horn sheep let us watch them as we run out of water.
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December 15, 2025 at 4:42 PM
There is a major Colorado River water conference this week. Instead of attending as a journalist, I am touring Hohokam canals, bighorn guzzlers, and modern water infrastructure. I’m more interested in what the watershed has to say. open.substack.com/pub/wildword...
Want to float the San Juan together? Join me on Glen Canyon Institute’s 2026 Membership trip! glencanyon.org/product/2026...
December 9, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Want to float the San Juan together? Join me on Glen Canyon Institute’s 2026 Membership trip! glencanyon.org/product/2026...
December 2, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Tomorrow I’ll be presenting about the 1920s Bernheimer Expeditions in the Four Corners region for @archsw.bsky.social. Tune in online here: www.archaeologysouthwest.org/event/path-o...
December 1, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Tomorrow I’ll be presenting about the 1920s Bernheimer Expeditions in the Four Corners region for @archsw.bsky.social. Tune in online here: www.archaeologysouthwest.org/event/path-o...
A boat dropped us off along a temporary shoreline to meditate on yesterday, eternal and ephemeral, in the canyon country archive. Nine days to lose count of with no words to find. Just you, me, the desert, and more water and wonder than we can absorb. open.substack.com/pub/wildword...
Landscape Scale Dreaming P. 2
Just you, me, the desert, and more water and wonder than we can absorb.
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November 30, 2025 at 4:33 PM
A boat dropped us off along a temporary shoreline to meditate on yesterday, eternal and ephemeral, in the canyon country archive. Nine days to lose count of with no words to find. Just you, me, the desert, and more water and wonder than we can absorb. open.substack.com/pub/wildword...
Imagine if Colorado River Basin decision makers considered such expansive views instead of clinging to development plans. With decisions being made by people behind closed doors, what, if anything, has changed since the 1922 Colorado River Compact except less water? open.substack.com/pub/wildword...
November 19, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Imagine if Colorado River Basin decision makers considered such expansive views instead of clinging to development plans. With decisions being made by people behind closed doors, what, if anything, has changed since the 1922 Colorado River Compact except less water? open.substack.com/pub/wildword...
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Last week, more than a dozen tribes across the U.S. commented on a new proposal by the Trump administration to let developers obtain preliminary permits for hydropower projects on reservations in spite of tribal opposition.
Trump wants to renew hydropower project permitting on reservations without tribal consent
Last week, more than a dozen tribes across the U.S. commented on a new proposal by the Trump administration to let developers obtain preliminary permits for hydropower projects on reservations in…
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November 18, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Last week, more than a dozen tribes across the U.S. commented on a new proposal by the Trump administration to let developers obtain preliminary permits for hydropower projects on reservations in spite of tribal opposition.
The love for the river, and especially Glen Canyon, was palpable at the The Rivers of Change Symposium in Moab last week. I felt like I was going to the Church of the River. substack.com/@wildwords/n...
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The love for the river, and especially Glen Canyon, was palpable at the The Rivers of Change Symposium in Moab last week. I felt like I was going to the Church of the River.
At a time when the news i...
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November 18, 2025 at 4:20 PM
The love for the river, and especially Glen Canyon, was palpable at the The Rivers of Change Symposium in Moab last week. I felt like I was going to the Church of the River. substack.com/@wildwords/n...
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.
utahnewsdispatch.com
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...
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Meandering around the next bend. 〰️
October 29, 2025 at 3:09 AM
Meandering around the next bend. 〰️