SAGEBRUSH EMPIRE: How a Remote Utah County Became the Battlefront of American Public Lands

Tuesday, August 31 at 6:00 

book talk and signing

Tuesday, August 31 from 2 pm to 5 pm   Writing Workshop with Jonathan!  Click here to here to sign up and get more information.

San Juan County, Utah, contains some of the most spectacular landscapes in the world, rich in culture and history. But it’s also long been plagued with racism, bitterness, and politics as twisted as the canyons. Award-winning journalist Jonathan P. Thompson explores the redrock canyons and  this corner of the western United States, which for five decades has been at the center of the American public lands wars.

Jonathan P. Thompson has been an environmental journalist focusing on the American West since he signed on as reporter and photographer at the Silverton Standard & the Miner newspaper in 1996. He has worked and written for High Country News for over a decade, and his work has appeared in numerous other outlets. He is the author of River of Lost Souls: The Science, Politics, and Greed behind the Gold King Mine Disaster. He and his wife, Wendy, split their time between Colorado and Bulgaria.