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 ...
No Child Left Inside
Friday, June 20th, 2008 Posted in Nature Matters | 2 Comments »The No Child Left Inside Act (S. 1981 and H.R. 3036), a bill that provides federal environmental education funds to schools, is a way to undo some of the damage done to environmental education by the mandates of the No ...
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 ...
Wildflower Bloom in Anza-Borrego’s San Felipe Hills
Monday, March 31st, 2008 Posted in Anza-Borrego, Nature Matters | Comments OffThe San Felipe Hills are poppin'! Whether it's the barrel cactus, yucca and brittlebush of the lower elevations, the lupines and poppies of the middle reaches, or the bush poppies colonizing the burn areas in the north, spring is bursting ...
