Off-Roading Ban in Sonoran Desert
Friday, May 23rd, 2008 Posted in Anza-Borrego, off-road vehicles | No Comments »The Arizona Republic reported on May 13 that the Bureau of Land Management will ban off-road vehicles on 55,000 acres of the Sonoran Desert National Monument for up to two years or more. Violators of the ban could face a ...
Desert Bloom Still Going
Tuesday, May 20th, 2008 Posted in Nature Matters, desert plants | 3 Comments »UPDATE Here are a few flower photos Gidon Singer took on his hike from the Lagunas to Scissors Crossing, on his way to the May 12 Sunrise Powerlink hearings in Borrego Springs. And it's not just flowers that are out this ...
Sunrise Powerlink in the Blogosphere
Friday, May 16th, 2008 Posted in Sunrise Powerlink | No Comments »Photo by Diana Lindsay. The Sunrise Powerlink hearings last Monday were well covered by bloggers. In addition to DesertBlog's coverage, here are several other sites: Christmas Letter blog: An informative post from one of the most eloquent speakers I heard at the ...
The DesertBlog Twitter Experiment
Tuesday, May 13th, 2008 Posted in Sunrise Powerlink | 2 Comments »I'd like to get your feedback on yesterday's posts on Twitter from the Sunrise Powerlink hearings in Borrego Springs. It was an experiment, to say the least. Covering an event through Twitter is a pretty new thing. Scott Beale covered the ...
Aguirre Criticizes Sunrise Powerlink, Gives SDG&E Solar Deadline
Tuesday, May 13th, 2008 Posted in Anza-Borrego, Sunrise Powerlink | No Comments »In his most strongly worded admonishment of SDG&E yet, San Diego City Attorney called on the company to come up with a rooftop solar plan for San Diego within 60 days, citing his authority to enforce state and local laws ...
Hi-Tech Access to Sunrise Powerlink Hearings
Sunday, May 11th, 2008 Posted in Sunrise Powerlink | No Comments »Assuming the Verizon Wireless signal in the desert is as good as the Borrego Springs Resort says it is, DesertBlog will be posting short updates on the Sunrise Powerlink to Twitter.com. To follow the posts in real time, you'll need ...
More Sunrise Powerlink Info
Friday, May 9th, 2008 Posted in Anza-Borrego, Desert Politics, Sunrise Powerlink | 2 Comments »This is the only kind of sunrise we need to see from the San Felipe Hills -- or anywhere else in San Diego's backcountry. UPDATE: The San Diego Union-Tribune covered Sempra's donation to the Governor today, May 10, in this article. The ...
Should we clearcut forests to install solar farms?
Monday, May 5th, 2008 Posted in desert plants, renewable energy | No Comments »Of course not. In addition to all their other values, forests act as carbon sinks. Yet according to a study reported in Nature Reports: Climate Change, deserts may store as much carbon as some temperate forests. The carbon is stored not ...
Threatened Desert Tortoise
Friday, May 2nd, 2008 Posted in Public Lands, desert wildlife | No Comments »Threatened Desert Tortoise Takes Another Hit In March in the Mojave Desert northeast of Barstow California, the US Army began removing close to 800 desert tortoises from habitat considered critical to their survival to an area south of the Ft. Irwin ...
