More Desert Wilderness
Monday, February 23rd, 2009 Posted in Public Lands, wilderness | Comments OffEarlier this month, we asked you to call your U.S. Representatives to show support for the national Omnibus Public Lands Bill, containing wilderness desig- nations for over 700,000 acres in California. (If you haven't called your representative yet, please do ...
And now the bad news
Friday, January 16th, 2009 Posted in Public Lands, off-road vehicles | Comments OffWhile the Senate acted yesterday to protect wilderness across the country, one area supposedly protected in the landmark California Desert Protection Act of 1994 is now under threat. Karen Schambach of Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility reports that Red Rock ...
First the Good News…
Friday, January 16th, 2009 Posted in Public Lands, wilderness | Comments OffThe Senate voted yesterday to pass wilderness legislation covering two million acres in nine states, and hundreds of thousands of acres here in California, including desert areas in and around Joshua Tree National Park. The bill must now go to ...
Sunrise Powerlink, Eastern San Diego Wind
Wednesday, October 15th, 2008 Posted in Public Lands, Sunrise Powerlink, renewable energy | 1 Comment »Final documents on two controversial San Diego plans have been released, prompting this long blog post. Sunrise Powerlink Yesterday, the CPUC released its Final EIR on the Sunrise Powerlink. The big picture: SDG&E's preferred route for this transmission line through Anza-Borrego is ...
Rangers on the Preserve – LA Times
Thursday, September 25th, 2008 Posted in Public Lands | Comments OffHere's an interesting article about rangers in the Mojave preserve. Reminds me of the time a Joshua Tree National Park aide told me about camping on BLM land south of the park: "There's target shooting and off-roading. It's much more ...
More on the Ivanpah Airport
Tuesday, September 9th, 2008 Posted in Public Lands | Comments OffGreat post from Chris Clarke today over on Coyote Crossing about a desert area that will be "affected" by the proposed Ivanpah airport. Check it out!
More on the industrialization of our deserts
Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008 Posted in Public Lands, renewable energy | Comments OffOn July10th, in El Centro California in the Imperial Valley, Washington D.C. Staff from the Bureau of Land Management and the Department of Energy held a public scoping meeting on their desert-wide planning process for industrial-size solar development throughout ...
Threatened Desert Tortoise
Friday, May 2nd, 2008 Posted in Endangered Species, Public Lands, desert wildlife | Comments OffThreatened Desert Tortoise Takes Another Hit In March in the Mojave Desert northeast of Barstow California, the US Army began removing close to 800 desert tortoises from habitat considered critical to their survival to an area south of the Ft. Irwin ...
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 ...
California Desert Conservation Area Left Out of National Landscape Conservation Act
Wednesday, April 9th, 2008 Posted in Desert Politics, Public Lands | Comments OffAfton Canyon, just one of the many spots in the California desert left out of today's passage of the National Landscape Conservation Act. Two hours ago, the United States House of Representatives passed the National Landscape Conservation System Act. This is good news ...
