David Ek

Certain types of groundwater issues are often complicated by our antiquated water laws and regulatory framework (“Fight over household wells complicates rural growing pains,” HCN, 2/8/18). To the hydrogeologist, and when it comes to real conditions on and in the ground, there is no distinction between surface and groundwater. Groundwater feeds streams and streams feed […]

The erroneous claim that the Antiquities Act is another form of federal land grab is so often repeated but seldom challenged (“Fact-checking Trump’s Antiquities Act order,” HCN, 5/15/17). Switching management from one federal agency to another is not a federal land grab, certainly not in the sense that detractors claim: the federal government taking over […]