Mountain and Prairie

William deBuys – Sage of the Southwest

Mountain and Prairie’s podcast interview of William deBuys, renowned writer and conservationist, who is known as one of the most influential thinkers in the modern-day American West. October, 2019.

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Orion

Together Apart is an Orion web series of letters from isolation. The third conversation is a series of emails between Pulitzer Prize finalist author William deBuys (A Great Aridness, The Last Unicorn, The Walk) and bestselling author and fly-fisherman David James Duncan (The Brothers K, The River Why, My Story as Told by Water). April, 2020.

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The New York Times

The ‘Drill, Baby, Drill’ Crowd Wants Access to this Arctic Reserve, July 18, 2019

“Many junkies, before hitting bottom, stoop low enough to steal their mothers’ jewels. That’s what’s happening at a national scale on the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska…”

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How to Hijack an Election

TomDispatch, January 19, 2017

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Letter to America

Terrain.org, Jan. 3, 2017

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This Land Is Our Land

The Guardian, May 18, 2016

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The Colorado

A Murat Eyuboglu film, inspired by deBuys’s 1999 book Salt Dreams. deBuys is credited as co-screen writer (with Eyuboglu) and lyricist. the concert version debuted on April 12, 2016 in Houston followed by a May 18, 2016 performance at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. The film’s screening schedule is at www.projectcolorado.com.

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Entering the Mega-Drought Era in America

TomDispatch, August 16, 2015

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Sticking It Out

Colorado Plateau Advocate Magazine, Spring 2015

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