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New El Paisano now online

Monday, January 18th, 2010 Posted in DPC News | Comments Off

Below, an experiment: we're trying a new way of making our newsletter El Paisano available online. You should see two embedded windows below: one containing the Fall-Winter El Paisano, and the other with our most recent Educational Bulletin. We suspect this ...

SDUT spreading myths about CDPA 2010

Tuesday, December 29th, 2009 Posted in DPC News, desert wildlife, renewable energy | 3 Comments »

[Following is a letter to the editor DPC's Conservation Coordinator Terry Weiner crafted in response to the San Diego Union Tribune's misguided and simplistic editorial on the California Desert Protection Act of 2010.] Dear Editor, Thank you, Senator Feinstein, for introducing the ...

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 ...

Desert Protective Council Transitions

Thursday, June 18th, 2009 Posted in DPC News | 4 Comments »

After a lot of soul-searching, I've decided to leave my consulting post with the Desert Protective Council in order to spend more time with my family, more time on my own writing, and more time in places like this --> It's ...

New from DPC

Wednesday, April 29th, 2009 Posted in Art & Nature, DPC News | Comments Off

It's been a busy publishing season for the Desert Protective Council. Our spring issue of El Paisano, our quarterly newsletter, is now available online. This issue features: a celebration of Joshua Tree (both the park and its namesake yucca) by desert poet ...

New El Paisano and Winter Action Alerts

Wednesday, February 18th, 2009 Posted in DPC News | Comments Off

Our latest issue of DPC's newsletter, El Paisano, is now available online. It covers a variety of issues, from the Red Rock Canyon State Park general plan, to the Renewable Energy Transmission Initiative, to our new outdoor ed curriculum focused ...

Much Better, Thanks!

Wednesday, December 24th, 2008 Posted in DPC News | 1 Comment »

DesertBlog and the Desert Protective Council's main website (www.dpcinc.org) were hit with a malware virus last week. The malicious script (a variant of something called "Small Trojan") was placed on all of our website pages, and could spread to any ...

DPC Annual Meeting

Thursday, October 30th, 2008 Posted in DPC News | 1 Comment »

The Desert Protective Council's Annual Meeting last Sunday was a smashing success. From my limited experience, I thought it was the best meeting DPC has held, and many agreed. The wonderful 29 Palms Inn provided an ideal venue for the meeting, ...

DPC’s Fall Newsletter Now Online

Monday, September 29th, 2008 Posted in DPC News, renewable energy | Comments Off

The Fall issue of El Paisano is now available here. This month's topics include our President's message, in which he eagerly awaits the approach of another desert hiking season; a report on POWER, a new group promoting responsible renewable energy ...