Joshua Tree National Park protected from giant landfill
Wednesday, November 11th, 2009 Posted in BLM, Desert Politics, Nature Matters, wilderness | 2 Comments »Still untrashed. Photo by thirteenthbat Tuesday, Nov. 10 2009 — Today the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals handed environmentalists a major victory by ruling that the federal Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM’s) approval of what would have been the world’s largest ...
ORV tracks in Area of Critical Environmental Concern
Monday, August 24th, 2009 Posted in BLM, Public Lands, mojave, off-road vehicles | 1 Comment »Harper Dry Lake, in the western Mojave between Barstow and California City, is not exactly wilderness. The lake is an historic airstrip serving the former town of Lockhart. It is ringed by alfalfa farms, most of them either fallow or ...
Comment deadline on Solar Energy Study Areas extended!
Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009 Posted in BLM, Public Lands, renewable energy | Comments OffBarbara Boyle at the Sierra Club informs us that the BLM is granting a 45 day extension on public comment on Interior's Solar Energy Study areas. Those comments had been due by the end of this month. The new comment ...
