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Archive for April, 2010

DPC visits the Solar Two site

Monday, April 26th, 2010 Posted in Endangered Species, renewable energy | 5 Comments »

Horned lizard in the Yuha Desert near Plaster City. Tom Budlong photo. Sunday was a pleasant, cool day in the Yuha Desert between Ocotillo and El Centro. The air temperature didn't even break 100 degrees. DPC staff and a few ...

There’s No Such Thing as “Desertification”

Tuesday, April 20th, 2010 Posted in Desert Living, Nature Matters, desert plants | 4 Comments »

If you want evidence that environmentalists as a whole really don't care about arid environments, it's instructive to look at a bit of jargon in use over the last few decades. The jargon is used to describe this process: People abuse ...