Showing posts with label Death Valley. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Death Valley. Show all posts
February 22, 2016

Death Valley Is Experiencing a Colorful ‘Superbloom’

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The primary threads in the floral carpet are yellow — the most common flower is called Desert Gold, which looks like a yellow daisy. (Nati...
November 8, 2014

Will renewable energy ruin an 'irreplaceable' Mojave desert oasis?

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The BLM has called the Silurian Valley an "undisturbed, irreplaceable, historic scenic landscape." But now the federal agency is c...
August 27, 2014

Death Valley Mystery Solved

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Santa Barbara Team Discovers Wind and Ice Behind the Racetrack’s “Sailing Stones” HOW THE HECK? A sailing stone leaves a trail after it scoo...
July 7, 2014

Water Extremes: Too Little; Too Much; Too Slow; Too Fast

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High & Dry Thunderstorm Gathering at Sunset - Infrared Exposure - Trona, CA - 2010 (photographer about to get drenched) | Photo: Osceola...
June 25, 2014

Baker's thermometer to reopen July 10

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World's Largest Thermometer The world's tallest thermometer in Baker. The thermometer will be rededicated on July 10, after several ...
January 30, 2014

A dry winter can lead to fewer petals out in our arid regions

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Desert Wildflowers Outlook Wildflowers from the past near Amboy Crater. (Photo by David McNew/Getty Images) By Alysia Gray Painter nbclosa...
October 21, 2013

Public allowed back on lands as federal government shutdown ends

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By ROBIN RICHARDS Needles Desert Star News West NEEDLES — Residents of Golden Shores awoke to the sound of gunfire on Friday. Cause fo...
April 6, 2013

Few flowers, but Joshua trees blooming

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Joshua Tree blossoms. (James Cornett, Special to The Desert Sun) Written by James Cornett Special to The Desert Sun I t is one of our...
December 26, 2012

Heated debate surrounds fate of Baker's thermometer

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Built to attract motorists heading to and from Las Vegas, the world's tallest thermometer in Baker, Calif., seen here in January 2000, h...
November 29, 2012

BrightSource Seeks Changes In Ivanpah Tortoise Plan

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by Chris Clarke KCET B rightSource Energy, developer of the Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System now under construction in the Ca...
May 1, 2011

Bill to protect desert backed by once-fierce foes

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Carolyn Lochhead, San Francisco Chronicle Washington Bureau Washington -- In 1994, a rookie lawmaker named Dianne Feinstein pushed throug...
April 4, 2011

20-Mule Team named as 2011 Grand Marshal

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(Photo courtesy Dave McCoy Photography) BISHOP -- They've graced show arenas, made a number of Pasadena Rose Parade appearances and lon...
August 30, 2010

Mudslide Clean-Up Continues; Highway 395 Open

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Thunderstorm-caused mudslide at Dunmovin, California, pushes a big rig off the northbound U. S. Highway 395 and into a culvert on Thursday...
March 30, 2010

Safety measures OK'd for abandoned mines at Mojave preserve

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By JESSICA CEJNAR Desert Dispatch BARSTOW • Officials at the Mojave National Preserve expect to award contracts for companies to install...
February 28, 2010

California deserts will soon burst with wildflowers

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A recipe of rain and warmth will turn austere fields in the Borrego Valley, Joshua Tree, Lancaster, Mojave and Death Valley into wildflower ...
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...
December 21, 2009

Feinstein introduces proposed desert legislation in Senate

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By JESSICA CEJNAR Desert Dispatch WASHINGTON D.C. • U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein introduced legislation Monday that would establish a na...
November 22, 2009

On Foot: Trona Pinnacles are vaguely familiar

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By LAURIE KAVENAUGH Chico Enterprise-Record RIDGECREST — Bob, our old Ford Explorer, was parked at the base of the Trona Pinnacl...
November 14, 2009

Remains May Be Tourists Missing 13 Years

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Bones Found in Death Valley May Be From German Party Whose Abandoned Van Was Found in 1996 Egbert Rimkus, Georg Weber and Cornelia Meyer, t...

Bones may solve mystery of missing Death Valley tourists

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Rental van was found with four flat tires, but searchers never located four German visitors who disappeared in 1996. By Teresa Watanabe L...