About me
Jonathan Thompson is a writer, editor and journalist who has been covering the lands and communities of the Western U.S. since 1996, when he signed on as the Silverton Standard & the Miner’s sole reporter. Since then he has worked in a variety of roles — from editor-in-chief to correspondent — at High Country News and as a freelancer, with work appearing in a variety of publications. He has authored two non-fiction books, River of Lost Souls: The science, politics and greed behind the Gold King Mine disaster and Sagebrush Empire: How a remote Utah county became a battlefront of American public lands, as well as Behind the Slickrock Curtain, a novel. He now runs the Land Desk, a newsletter focusing on public lands. He currently lives in Greece with his wife Wendy and a menagerie of dogs and cats and olive trees.
