Showing posts with label Mojave National Preserve. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mojave National Preserve. Show all posts
August 16, 2020

Dome Fire chars 16,000 acres in Mojave National Preserve

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The Dome fire burns near Cima Road in the Mojave National Preserve on August 16,2020. The blaze had charred 16,000 acres by Sunday evening. ...
May 30, 2018

How wildland springs affect mule deer population dynamics studied by CABNR

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Kelley Stewart lab looked at mule deer in arid environments, particularly juvenile survival Led by CABNR associate professor Kelley Stewart,...
May 17, 2018

Park Service signs deal to round up Death Valley’s wild burros

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A wild burro stands in Death Valley National Park. The agency has entered into a five-year agreement with a nonprofit rescue group to remo...
March 25, 2018

Mojave National Preserve releases plan to remove most man-made wildlife water

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Most small game guzzlers like this one would be removed or neglected into a non-functioning condition under the new NPS policy. By JIM M...
December 6, 2017

Trump administration hints at changes to California desert's smallest national monument

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President Barack Obama used his executive authority under the Antiquities Act to protect this lush expanse of Joshua trees in the Castle M...
August 28, 2017

Under Obama, a gold mining firm was fine with a Mojave Desert monument. Under Trump, an about-face

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Aren Hall, environmental manager of the open-pit Newcastle mining operation, surveys the eastern Mojave Desert site. (Louis Sahagun / Los ...
August 18, 2017

Lawmaker wants to shrink Castle Mountains monument to make more room for a gold mine

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Castle Mountains National Monument surrounds the Castle Mountain gold mine which a Canadian company is looking to reopen. (Photo: Jay Cald...
May 18, 2017

Capturing the Mojave Desert

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Painters, Photographers, Poets, and More Invited to Artist-in-Residence Program A spring scene from the Mojave National Preserve (Matt Kettm...
April 4, 2017

Feinstein fumes as Trump team waives environmental review for Mojave water project

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Scott Slater, CEO of the Cadiz water project, stands near a basin at the project site near Needles, California, Slater and Cadiz have recent...

Trump administration boosts huge Mojave Desert water-pumping project

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Environmentalists say the Cadiz project would rob the desert of the water that plants and wildlife need to survive. A pumping station design...
March 24, 2017

Ecologist Steps in to Lead Mojave Desert Research, Education Center

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Darren R. Sandquist is the new Desert Studies Consortium director. CSUF News Service F or over 25 years, ecologist Darren R. Sandquis...
March 5, 2017

BLM stops efforts to restore desert water sources

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Jim Matthews By Jim Matthews Hesperia Star www.OutdoorNewsService.com W ater for Wildlife, a desert conservation organization that r...
February 27, 2017

Joshua trees meet very different fates in California, Arizona

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The sun goes down on Joshua trees at Castle Mountains National Monument in eastern California on Feb. 1, 2016. Private land across not far...
February 15, 2017

Nonprofit land trust turns over 3,000 acres to Mojave National Preserve

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An entrance to Mojave National Preserve on Zzyzx Road near Baker, Calif. (Don Bartletti / Los Angeles Times) Associated Press Los Angel...
February 8, 2017

California water venture tied to Trump sees prospects rise after years of setbacks

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BY STUART LEAVENWORTH Sacramento Bee WASHINGTON -- Until Donald Trump won the presidency, prospects looked bleak for Cadiz, a California...
August 1, 2016

County should say no to Soda Mountain solar

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COMMENTARY By Jacob Overson Desert Dispatch G rowing up in one of the California desert’s last remaining ranching families instilled in...