Showing posts with label desert bighorn sheep. Show all posts
Showing posts with label desert bighorn sheep. Show all posts
February 2, 2019

A monumental flight over Mojave Trails

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Mojave Desert Land Trust aerial tour shows splendor of national monument whose status could be reassessed Amboy Crater is a significant geol...
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 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...
April 5, 2016

Feds approve controversial remote desert solar plant near Baker

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A bighorn sheep climbs the terrain of the Mojave National Preserve, about a mile northeast of the proposed site for the Soda Mountain Sola...
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...
May 16, 2014

Mojave Desert not ideal for massive solar project

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Soda Mountain is a proposed solar project seen from the air on Wednesday, February 5, 2014. Several big solar and wind energy projects are m...
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 20, 2014

Opposition Mounts to Solar Project On Mojave Preserve Boundary

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View of the North Array site's currently undisturbed desert tortoise habitat from the Soda Mountains. (Courtesy Basin and Range Watch)...
February 19, 2014

Pneumonia outbreak now called ‘worst case scenario’ for bighorn sheep

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Bighorn Sheep are shown on the trail to Icebox Canyon in Red Rock Conservation Area. In what wildlife biologists are calling “a worst-case...
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 30, 2013

Crews will capture, test and attach radio transmitters to bighorn sheep

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State and federal wildlife experts launch $48,000 helicopter survey and GPS tracking effort this weekend to gauge the scope of pneumonia epi...
September 4, 2013

Trucked sheep may have caused bighorn deaths

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Domestic sheep trucked through the Mojave may have caused a devastating bighorn pneumonia wave More than 100 bighorn sheep in and around ...
July 26, 2013

Bighorn sheep testing shows sick animals without disease

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Two bighorn sheep ewes and their lambs are photographed during a survey conducted by the California Department of Fish and Wildlife. Both ...
June 19, 2013

Diseased bighorn sheep might have to be killed in Mojave National Preserve

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Desert bighorn sheep gather at night on June 6 at a guzzler set up to provide water for the herd. A virus that is killing sheep in the lar...
June 6, 2013

Wildlife biologists investigate bighorn sheep deaths

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Bighorn sheep near a wildlife guzzler in the Old Dad Mountain range in the Mojave National Preserve. (FILE PHOTO) by Janet Zimmerman Pr...
June 4, 2013

Drones to spy on Southern Nevada wildlife, not people

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A U.S. Geological Survey THawk drone lifts off on April 3 during an aerial survey of abandoned dump sites in the Mojave National Preserve ...
January 10, 2013

BLM Rebuffs Conservation Groups, Approves California Solar Project

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Desert tortoise sporting a tracking device and a desert tortoise monitor/biologist. Alyssa Carducci Heartland Institute T he U.S. Bur...
May 19, 2012

Silence of the Lambs

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Feds Authorize Killing of Bighorn Sheep in Path of Wind Project Endangered Bighorn on boundary of Pattern's Ocotillo Express wind f...