Showing posts with label National Park Service. Show all posts
Showing posts with label National Park Service. Show all posts
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...
December 12, 2016

Joshua Tree National Park poised to grow by 20,000 acres

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Southern California´s tallest peak, San Gorgonio Mountain, can be seen from some parts of Joshua Tree National Park. (Staff Photo by Sarah...
August 18, 2016

‘Confusion at every level’ of the Park Service

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By Joe Davidson | Columnist Washington Post Y ears of sacred- and ceremonial-ground desecration at the Effigy Mounds National Monument...
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...
January 20, 2016

Fed Employees Caught Bragging About Federal Land Grabs

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Employee brags they "stole the money from Washington" to push World War II vets off land YouTube clip in which government employe...
January 14, 2016

Mojave violated NPS policy buying assault rifles and grenades for rangers

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A government report says a supervisor at the Mojave National Preserve in California violated policy by buying fully automatic assault rifles...
August 5, 2015

Ghost Town Emerges As Drought Makes Nevada's Lake Mead Disappear

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Many of the buildings used to lie 60 feet below the lake surface A sign showing the trail to the ghost town of St. Thomas in the Lake Mead N...
July 12, 2015

Lost in the Desert: Proposed Mojave Trails National Monument Remains In Limbo

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Route 66, America's "Mother Road," runs through the heart of the proposed Mojave Trails National Monument, but is in dire ne...
May 8, 2015

Suess named superintendent of Mojave National Preserve

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Sup. Todd Suess (pronounced "cease") San Bernardino Sun T odd Suess, a veteran of federal land management agencies in the we...
March 28, 2015

San Bernardino County’s national parks face huge repair backlog

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"The potholes on the road in the (Mojave) National Preserve are so bad that people are getting flat tires." Joshua Tree National P...
November 20, 2014

BLM rejectes application for Silurian Valley energy project

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Kailah Miles,11, of Apple Valley and her brother Rex, 8, walk back to their family's campsite at the Dumont Dunes in the Silurian Valley...
April 22, 2014

Downsize National Park Service, dumping costly, unpopular sites

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EDITORIAL Washington Times T he National Park Service is waiving entrance fees to America’s national parks and historic sites during Na...
March 19, 2014

Park service says project would harm Mojave preserve

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Soda Lake in the Mojave National Preserve is the point where the Mojave River, which flows from the San Bernardino Mountains, reaches its ...
March 17, 2014

National Park Service Slams Solar Project Near Mojave Preserve

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Part of the Soda Mountain Solar Project site (Courtesy © Michael Gordon) by Chris Clarke KCET.org T he National Park Service isn...
February 23, 2014

Joint Effort Improves Desert Tortoise Research At Mojave National Preserve

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National Parks Traveler Desert tortoise research, and the researchers, at Mojave National Preserve in California have gotten a boost from ...
December 3, 2013

Solar project planned next to Mojave National Preserve

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Soda Lake in the Mojave National Preserve reflects the sky. A commercial solar development is proposed within a mile of the lake bed, prom...
November 14, 2013

Time to throw the Antiquities Act into the recycling bin of history

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Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument, Utah OPINION By RON ARNOLD The Examiner T wo words — national monument — conjure Image...
November 12, 2013

Bighorn sheep numbers way down

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These bighorn sheep were photographed in 2009 on Old Dad Mountain, the same area of the eastern Mojave Desert where a deadly disease has s...
October 31, 2013

Interior’s Jewell: no partisan motive in closing monuments

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The U.S. Interior Department recently weighed in against the preferred route of the West Davis corridor freeway, saying that it would caus...