November 8, 2009: Save the date for our Annual Membership Meeting!
Friday, August 28th, 2009 Posted in DPC News, Desert Events | 1 Comment »55th Annual Membership Meeting Sunday November 8, 2009 11AM–4PM. Meet DPC Board, staff, and your fellow members at the beautiful Whitewater Canyon Preserve, 2,851 acres surrounded by the BLM’s San Gorgonio Wilderness, a crucial transition-zone wildlife corridor between the San Jacinto and San Bernardino mountains. [Photo: Bighorn Sheep at ...
One Weekend, Two National Parks
Tuesday, October 7th, 2008 Posted in Desert Events | Comments OffThe weekend of October 25-26 offers two opportunities for friends of the desert to gather in or near two of our favorite National Parks units. On the evening of Oct. 25, the National Parks Conservation Association will hold a celebration of ...
Desert Readings
Friday, September 26th, 2008 Posted in Desert Events | Comments OffSeveral desert-oriented readings and book signings are coming up, with Ruth Nolan involved one way or the other. First, her Phantom Seed reading series will take place at the Riverside Public Library at 1:00 p.m. on October 4, featuring desert poetry ...
Help the Desert This Weekend
Thursday, September 25th, 2008 Posted in Desert Events | Comments OffWith atrocity after atrocity being enacted or planned on desert landscapes, it's easy to give in to unremitting gloom. There's no better antidote for this syndrome than to get out and do something to benefit the desert, using your own ...
National Public Lands Day – Jacumba Wilderness
Wednesday, September 17th, 2008 Posted in Desert Events, Stewardship | 1 Comment »For National Public Lands Day on September 27, the Bureau of Land Management is conducting a clean-up in the Jacumba Wilderness, near Smugglers Cave. Volunteers are welcome and needed! If last year's cleanup (pictured at right) is any indication, temperatures in ...
54th DPC Annual Meeting
Thursday, September 11th, 2008 Posted in Desert Events | 1 Comment »We hope you'll join us at DPC's 54th Annual Meeting, to be held this year at the 29 Palms Inn in Twentynine Palms, California, close to Joshua Tree National Park. We'll have naturalist-led walks, three great speakers and a good ...
Two Forms of Desert Wildlife This Week
Tuesday, April 15th, 2008 Posted in Desert Events, desert wildlife | Comments OffThe past two weeks may have convinced you that it's all Sunrise Powerlink all the time here at DesertBlog, but we're interested in other topics too. Really... how about these two events for some relief from the gloom and doom? Starting ...
