Doc Searls has some great pictures of Powder River coal lands (see his Flickr set), and he points to John McPhee’s 2005 articles in the New Yorker. After I’d read the articles in 2005 I did a bit of link-gathering and Google Earth messing, and it’s still worth a look as an addendum to Doc’s photos. As I updated the links on that page I realized how rusty I am with the mechanics of FTP… and in fact a lot of my former skills seem to have gone walkabout.