Climate change threat to Joshua trees gets more press
Monday, June 22nd, 2009 Posted in Endangered Species, desert plants, desert wildlife | 2 Comments »The Riverside Press Enterprise reported Saturday on the increasingly widespread concern that in a century or so, Joshua Tree National Park's namesake species might not grow there anymore. The ancient plants are dying in the park, the southern-most boundary of ...
Nothing Grows in the Desert
Monday, April 13th, 2009 Posted in desert plants, renewable energy | 2 Comments »The desert is a barren wasteland. The desert is unproductive. There's nothing there. We've all heard these statements before, but those of us who have come to know and love the desert realize just how wrong they are. The reality: The desert teems with life, ...
Anza-Borrego Wildflowers 2009
Tuesday, March 24th, 2009 Posted in Anza-Borrego, desert plants | 1 Comment »Occasionally we need to take a break from activism and get out and smell the flowers. Last Saturday, I took a hike from Grapevine Canyon, up Grapevine Mountain and back down Bitter Creek. Brittle bush was probably the most abundant ...
Wee Thump Joshua Tree Wilderness
Saturday, August 23rd, 2008 Posted in desert plants, desert wildlife, wilderness | 7 Comments »This month a friend and I sat bathed in moonlight on the fringes of a desert wilderness, enjoying a hundred-mile view. Eastward we saw towering thunderheads, illuminated from within by frequent and gigantic lightning flashes as they released their catastrophic ...
Desert Plants and Off-Road Vehicles
Monday, June 2nd, 2008 Posted in desert plants, off-road vehicles | 1 Comment »Here's an excerpt from Terry Weiner's conservation column in the upcoming El Paisano. Join DPC today to receive your own copy of El Paisano in the mail, or read it online at our website. The Mojave and Colorado deserts saw quite ...
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 ...
Should we clearcut forests to install solar farms?
Monday, May 5th, 2008 Posted in desert plants, renewable energy | 1 Comment »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 ...
New Algodones/Imperial Sand Dunes Planning Process
Wednesday, April 16th, 2008 Posted in Public Lands, desert plants, off-road vehicles | Comments OffThe Algodones Dunes, photo by Andrew Harvey. The beautiful Algodones Dunes lie on the eastern edge of Imperial Valley. Besides being vast and magnificent, they contain a number of plants and animals that live nowhere else in the world, including the ...
