Fall/Winter El Paisino available HERE. Education Bulletin #09-3, Off-Road Vehicles: a Biologist's Perspective by Dr. Robert C. Stebbins available HERE.

The Desert Protective Council's work to save the Desert Cahuilla Prehistoric Area has garnered some favorable press attention in the Palm Springs Desert Sun. In an editorial published January 3, the Desert Sun quoted the DPC's Terry Weiner and biologist Ileene Anderson of the Center for Biological Diversity on the importance of saving the DCPA. Read the whole thing here. If you'd like to learn more about ORV damage to the Desert Cahuilla Prehistoric Area, and the DPC's campaign to protect this irreplaceable treasure, check out the recent post on DesertBlog.

January 15 - March 31, 2010
The Desert Protective Council invites you to an event it has co- sponsored:

Visions Past & Present
of the Salton Sea
featuring the photography of Christina Lange
January 15 through March 31, 2010 La Quinta Museum,
77-885 Avenida Montezuma,
La Quinta CA 92253

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February 23 You are invited to a fundraiser for
the California Wilderness Coalition.

5:00–7:00 p.m.

Please join the CWC for a very special evening celebrating recent successes in introducing two wilderness bills this year that will protect over 1.6 million acres of the California Desert.

Join special guests for a private screening of "Forever Wild: Celebrating America's Wilderness," a just-released documentary narrated by Robert Redford and featuring the prose of Terry Tempest Williams (read by the author) as well as original music. Hosted by the California Wilderness Coalition at the Stone Brewing Company in Escondido.

1999 Citracado Parkway
Escondido, CA 92029

R.S.V.P. - Please contact Monica Argondona at (951) 205-6004 or margondona@calwild.org.

April 20-22, 2010
Great Basin / Mojave Desert Climate Change Workshop

WHEN? April 20-22, 2010
WHERE? University of Nevada-Las Vegas

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the U.S. Geological Survey, the National Park Service, and the Environmental Protection Agency, in collaboration with several other agencies and organizations, are sponsoring a workshop focusing on natural resource research, adaptation, and mitigation needs related to climate change in the Great Basin and Mojave Desert.

For more information, please visit: www.wr.usgs.gov/workshops.

February 11-14
13th Salton Sea International Bird Festival

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April 8–11
Western Wilderness Conference 2010: New Aims, New Allies

Western Wilderness Conference 2010: New Aims, New Allies April 8–11, 2010, on the campus of the Univ. of California, Berkeley.

Save the date now! For anyone who cares about the wild places of the West–this is one event not to miss!

....	The rugged volcanic landscape of Vinagre Wash in Imperial County, a potential new wilderness area. Photo by John Dittli / CWC

Although the event will take place in California's San Francisco Bay Area, wilderness organizations and advocates from all twelve western states, including Alaska, are involved, and wild lands advocates from all those states are enthusiastically invited to participate in this grand event.

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