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Salt Lakes: An Unnatural History
Caroline Tracey
2026
Mono Lake, California.

The Lonely Lake That Revolutionized American Environmental Law

In the 1970s and 1980s, battles to preserve Mono Lake set new protection precedents.
by Caroline Tracey via Zócalo Public Square on March 16, 2026
Driving along the border wall, May 2025.

A Theology of Smuggling

In the early 1980s Tucson, activists and religious leaders joined forces to protect refugees at the U.S.-Mexico border, galvanizing the Sanctuary Movement.
by Caroline Tracey via Places Journal on November 13, 2025
Archival map of the U.S.-Mexico border region near Mexicali, Mexico. Displays the Colorado River Delta system

A Cartography of Loss in the Borderlands

Mexicali’s "Colorado River Family Album" documents what is no more.
by Caroline Tracey via High Country News
This publication restricts nonsubscriber access to some or all of its articles.
on February 21, 2024
Cartoon of California and Colorado talking about suburban housing.

Orange County, Colorado

How a California homebuilder remade the Interior West.
by Caroline Tracey via New York Review Of Architecture on February 19, 2024
The Falcon Dam on the Rio Grande, which runs across the US–Mexico border, Starr County, Texas, 2017.

Stopping the Old Rio Grande

In the 1950s the construction of a dam on the Texas–Mexico border displaced communities from their land—and anticipated the wall-building underway today.
by Caroline Tracey via New York Review of Books
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on January 11, 2024
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