Julia Sizek
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Julia Sizek
@jsizek.bsky.social
Environmental historian and legal geographer of California desert's landownership checkerboards, Native American land trusts, groundwater, dirt bikes, and vacation homes. Also projects on the Northwest Forest Plan and cervid Chronic Wasting Disease.
Also though known as accidental in its most recent iteration, the Salton Sink has been periodically infilling as the Colorado River Delta has changed over time! So both accidental and natural
October 22, 2025 at 3:52 AM
Maybe it's the same people who are trying to claim that JD's hometown of Middletown is also Appalachia (said as someone who lived the majority of my childhood in WV plus another 6 years in non-appalachia Ohio)
August 26, 2025 at 4:21 AM
Sand! Also quite effective depending on locale
August 18, 2025 at 3:39 AM
I find that reverse outlines (even if video content!) can help students see things a little better
August 6, 2025 at 12:51 AM
Or dam removal!
August 4, 2025 at 7:51 PM
And just think, it was such a win for 'jeffersonian democracy' to create a checkerboard
July 15, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Catellus is a superweird and mostly not researched part of the train world, as someone who wrote a bit about them in the California desert (unfortunately not relevant here)
July 15, 2025 at 3:45 AM
Lol I have tried only to have it summarize a court case once and it was the same problem except for it doesn't understand how laws work
June 29, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Or if you spend too much time listening to satellite radio with old people... dragnet's theme song is forever in my brain
June 21, 2025 at 4:20 AM