Map Collections in the Marriott Library: Current Interest

Bears Ears National Monument: the proclamation of December 2016 resulted in the following map produced by the U.S. BLM in 2017:

https://www.blm.gov/sites/blm.gov/files/documents/files/BLMUtahBearsEarsNationalMonument.pdf

... and the diminished version pushed out by the Trump administration, December 2017:

 https://www.nrdc.org/experts/rhea-suh/attack-our-national-monuments-just-got-real

... and the shrinking Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument:

https://wilderness.org/sites/default/files/Grand%20Staircase-Escalante%20National%20Monument%20-%20Boundary%20Modification.pdf

The current fire season in Utah

http://www.utahfireinfo.gov/

Hydraulic fracturing ("fracking"), an online map from EarthJustice:

http://earthjustice.org/features/campaigns/fracking-across-the-united-states

Sea-level Rise due to Global Warming, as calculated by NOAA:

http://www.csc.noaa.gov/slr/viewer/index.html?ll=-11750000.000000;4950000.000000&level=1&basemap=null&CurTab=0&CurSLR=0# 

...and another version from geology.com:

http://geology.com/sea-level-rise/ 

The Drought of 2012

 http://www.drought.gov/imageserver/NIDIS/DEWS/UCRB/docs/WWA-NIDIS_July_2012_Drought_update.pdf

From the National Integrated Drought Information System, details on drought conditions in Utah and surrounding states.
And here's a drought monitor for the current situation:

http://www.drought.gov/drought/content/products-current-drought-and-monitoring-drought-indicators/us-drought-monitor

 And the outlook in the winter of 2018:

http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/expert_assessment/sdo_summary.php

Global Security’s Afghanistan Maps

http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/afghanistan/maps-people.htm

GlobalSecurity is an organization that provides country-specific data for political/ military regions of the world. This page is devoted to Afghanistan with maps of all types.

The Gulf/2000 project: Maps of the Persian Gulf region

http://gulf2000.columbia.edu/maps.shtml

 Princeton University’s Mapping Globalization Project

https://qed.princeton.edu/index.php/MG

Google map of the Syrian uprising (August 2011)

http://googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/2011/08/video-map-of-syrian-uprising.html

...and an update from January 2014:

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=88a_1390067624 

 ...and as of November 2017, after the ouster of ISIS:

http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/interactive/2015/05/syria-country-divided-150529144229467.html

Maps covering United States elections:

• General (2014:  http://electoral-vote.com/
• Presidential (2016)
  • Electoral college results:  https://www.270towin.com/maps/2016-actual-electoral-map 
  • Results by county, 2016:  https://www.nytimes.com/elections/results/president 
  • Results by congressional district: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:2016_presidential_election,_results_by_congressional_district_(popular_vote_margin).svg
• Senate 2018 battle:  https://www.rollcall.com/news/gonzales/senate-landscape-never-early-look-2018
• Redistricting 2020 (maps reflecting the debate over the next post-census battle for Congress):  https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/8/2/1554138/-Democrats-are-already-gearing-up-for-our-next-redistricting-battle-in-2020
• Utah districts: http://elections.utah.gov/map/district-maps