Sean Neves

@juleeslc Saw the smoke from the JRP. My guess by the color was a phragmyte control burn.

What is on fire northwest of SLC? We could see flames from the Neff’s Canyon trailhead.

@summitbornHQ Awesome. The Maze is my favorite nook in this world. The difficulty of getting anywhere keeps the clowns at bay.

Discover Canyonlands’ Maze District in 36 hours—descend the Flint Trail, camp in the Doll House, and hike to ancient pictographs. Utah’s most remote wilderness offers silence, solitude, and unforgettable desert grandeur. summitborn.com/36-hours-canyo…

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Happy Memorial Day Fam! Here's a picture of a bunch of Hawaiian bros who served. My pops in the bottom left corner. This was a giant family ripped out of their homes and spat out in San Fran after Pearl Harbor. Thinking of those who never came home today ❤️🇺🇸

HOLY CRAP SAVE OF THE CENTURY!

@alexknicker Yeah that too. But they also stink like. Err

@SeanDNeves Wrong framing. This tree is the largest water consumer of all urban trees in Utah. They must be removed to save the great salt lake.

Utah needs to 86 the Jizz Tree

@BitchyGriff Yeah man that's top tier TV. Enjoy

I’m having a pretty fucked up weekend thus far but I discovered The Americans (2013-2018) and it’s unbelievably good so far so that’s kinda nice

A fire extinguisher 🧯

In their defense, SITLAs job is to sell lease or make productive all SITLA holdings in the state for the benefit of Utah schools. It's written into the Utah Enabling Act. But lots of fun and games/scheming going back years, mostly by development interests. A recent kerfuffle involving Aman Resorts potentially outbidding the State itself on a parcel next to Kodachrome Basin SP in Cannonville. Here's a taste about a certain, er, influential family in San Juan County: medium.com/westwise/shado…

Thanks for this, is there a case making the rounds right now that you’re following? I Set up an alert about this thanks to you. One major thing is when land is sent to the states like this, it’s more obscure and tough to follow than something that makes national news like a fed parcel being sold. That’s why the state chapters of sagebrush are important IMO.

The Idaho constitution requires the state to mange state public land for “long term financial return.” What that means is a 5th generation Teton ranching family will get the boot from their lease when well connected billionaires ask the Idaho Land Board to sell, like what happened with this Tetons Driggs 160 case. The Mike Lee thing failed, so the next move in the playbook is transferring public land to the states who will then say “we can make more money off this land so we are selling it off.” They’re saying he won’t build a subdivision here, but there’s nothing stopping him as it’s private land now. The billionaire who bought the parcel is a New York movie producer and tech investor with a lot of financial interests in AI and data centers. He lives full time in Pittsburgh. When we carve up the American West like this, and make something that once was public private, the possibility for development of open land increases. What made conservation of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem possible as one of the only fully intact ecosystems left in America was the scale and connectivity of public land for seasonal migrations of elk, mule deer, pronghorn, and bison. Herds follow green waves of grass with the season. Suburban development has stopped these migrations almost everywhere else. Public land prevents fragmentation into housing developments that would end these migrations too. Ranchers are a big part of this as ranch lands are often some of the most productive low elevation habitat for herds or they fall along migration corridors. Ranches maintain these large open spaces that allow migration to continue. If the buyer keeps the land undeveloped, that would be great, but now that it’s private and the 5th gen family who had a grazing lease there into the 2030s is gone, there’s no guarantee. Another part of America sold off to the highest bidder because the line must go up.

@IGoBySteve A wonderland for kids!

@SeanDNeves Yep!

It really doesn’t get better than this

@RodeoProfessor Some really nice LIHTC housing too. Affordable housing and all that!

@SeanDNeves Needs a fence around it so I can increase my freedom and prosperity

@JohnKir34443642 @Cmdr_Hadfield @SpaceX Definitely need that beyond the Moon. But lunar exit isn't super fuel intensive. The moon will be the gas station of the solar system!

@SeanDNeves @Cmdr_Hadfield @SpaceX Why couldn't there be a sub station in between.

We need heat shields to protect us, since we use the air to slow us down as we return to Earth. From orbital speed, it gets to 1650°C / 3000°F. From the Moon: 2750°C / 5000°F. For yesterday's Starship suborbital test flight, peak was 1450°C / 2600°F. Great to see the @SpaceX progress over the last 3 flights. Making them truly reusable is complex and necessary for permanent, cheap space access. image compilation: @niccruzpatane

@RodeoProfessor Just some nondescript public land in Western Utah. And the best backdrop for a Buccees ever according to some.

@SeanDNeves Cannot wait to sell this to the richest guy in Pittsburgh! Seriously though this is incredible thanks for sharing.

@AndrewCFollett @MrWhite_IsRight @RodeoProfessor Saying hello from some plain old BLM land.

@MrWhite_IsRight @RodeoProfessor Believe me, I love public lands too. Ive spent a lot of time in them. But most BLM land isnt Yosemite, Yellowstone, or even Big Bend.

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@openshutter21 Wow what a shot!

The trees give you an idea of large and prominent the structures are at Valley Of The Gods. I posted a photo of this oasis a couple months back but this one shows you the vastness and how much of an anomaly it is.