Showing posts with label Catellus. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Catellus. Show all posts
December 29, 2009

Desert bill a mixed bag for locals

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By KRIS REILLY, Editor Lucerne Leader LUCERNE VALLEY • The name may sound appealing to desert conservationists: the California Desert Pro...

When it comes to energy, she's against it

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STEVE WILLIAMS Opinion Page Editor Victor Valley Daily Press I don't know what they have to say, It makes no difference anyway, Whate...
December 21, 2009

Desert Vistas vs. Solar Power

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The solar developer BrightSource Energy has canceled one solar-energy project in the Mojave Desert, above, but is proceeding with several o...

Feinstein to introduce legislation to establish 2 national monuments in Mojave Desert

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The protected areas would encompass 1 million acres containing wildlife, extinct volcanoes, sand dunes and ancient petroglyphs. The senator...
September 22, 2009

Desert monument idea is starting to shine

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By DAVID DANELSKI The Press-Enterprise Land around the Old Woman Mountains is part of the area supporters want considered for a monument...
September 18, 2009

Solar energy firm drops plan for project in Mojave Desert

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BrightSource Energy's decision ends a battle with environmentalists over a 5,130-acre site in a proposed national monument. By Louis S...
September 17, 2009

Alliance to promote Mother Road

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By MARJ DARIO Needles Desert Star NEEDLES - In the novel “The Grapes of Wrath,” John Steinbeck wrote, “(Route) 66 is the mother road, the...
September 8, 2009

RFK Jr., enviros clash over Mojave solar proposal

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RENEWABLE ENERGY Colin Sullivan Greenwire SAN FRANCISCO -- Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is no stranger to hardball politics. The enviro...
March 27, 2009

Feinstein Stands in Way of California Desert Wind Power Project

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Environmental Leader T he California Energy Commission estimates that as many as 160,000 acres of desert lands in California are needed to m...
March 21, 2009

Feinstein seeks to block solar power from desert land

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By KEVIN FREKING Associated Press The Mother Road National Monument designed by the Wilderness Conservancy on behalf of Senator Dianne Feins...
March 18, 2009

Feinstein Seeks to Preserve Former Catellus Lands

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Sen. Dianne Feinstein's office Press Release Washington, DC - U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), the author of the 1994 Californ...
March 14, 2009

Group sees 'violation of trust'

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WILDLANDS CONSERVANCY: It brokered a BLM deal to protect the desert acres that are now being opened to development. David Myers, executive d...
September 26, 2004

In the Mojave Preserve, Emotions Still Run Hot

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By Julie Cart Los Angeles Times Staff Writer MOJAVE NATIONAL PRESERVE, Calif. — To many, this is a place to hurry through. The austere expan...
September 22, 2004

Celebrating the desert

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Celebrating the Tenth Anniversary of the California Desert Protection Act by Dianne Feinstein National Parks Ten years ago this October, Bil...
January 19, 2000

Public Takes Title to Almost 225,000 Acres of Inholdings Spread Across California Desert

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Business Editors Business Wire SACRAMENTO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE) The public, through the U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM), yesterday (...
August 21, 1999

PRESERVING AMERICA'S LANDS LEGACY (CA)

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Press Release on the Environment (California Exerpt) THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary -----------------------------------------...
March 29, 1999

Land deal links desert parks

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by Juniper Davis High Country News A California-based land trust has arranged to put almost 500,000 acres of mountaintop forests, sand dune...