Bighorn Sheep Need Habitat
Friday, June 12th, 2009 Posted in Endangered Species | 2 Comments »The Center for Biological Diversity, the Desert Protective Council, and three other conservation groups yesterday filed a notice of intent to sue the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service over a decision that threatens the endangered Peninsular bighorn sheep. We believe ...
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 ...
Army Rethinks Tortoise Relocation
Monday, October 13th, 2008 Posted in Endangered Species, desert wildlife | 2 Comments »While the U.S. Marine Corps has announced plans to expand its 29 Palms base, the Army's Ft. Irwin expansion efforts faced some difficulty when the Army announced on Friday that it would suspend its much-criticized desert tortoise relocation program. As biologists ...
Bighorn Sheep Are Counting On You
Thursday, October 9th, 2008 Posted in Endangered Species, desert wildlife | 6 Comments »You're hiking up a rugged desert canyon somewhere at the eastern edge of southern California's Peninsular Ranges. The truck-sized boulders glow golden in the bright sunshine, and up ahead a clump of fan palms enlivens the mostly brown landscape. You ...
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 ...
Good News for Bighorn, Bad News for Tortoise
Tuesday, August 12th, 2008 Posted in Endangered Species, desert wildlife | 2 Comments »There was good news for Sierra Nevada bighorn sheep last week, as the US Fish & Wildlife Service finalized critical habitat for this population of bighorn, cousins to the desert bighorn of the southwest. The new decision on critical habitat ...
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 ...
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 ...
Why Protect the Desert?
Monday, April 28th, 2008 Posted in Art & Nature, Sunrise Powerlink | 3 Comments »The Sunrise Powerlink would run at the base of the distant mountains in this photo, altering the experience of hikers on the Pacific Crest Trail in the San Felipe Hills. "The desert's a good place for the Sunrise Powerlink -- ...
