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Jonathan P. Thompson

Jonathan P. Thompson is an award-winning freelance author, journalist and editor. He usually writes about the land, culture, and communities of the American West, with an emphasis on energy development, pollution, land-use politics, and economics. He is the author of River of Lost Souls: The Science, Politics, and Greed Behind the Gold King Mine Disaster (Torrey House Press, February 2018) and is a contributing editor at High Country News.