Showing posts with label homesteads. Show all posts
Showing posts with label homesteads. Show all posts
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...
July 18, 2015

Shrinking Colorado River is a growing concern for Yuma farmers — and millions of water users

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By WILLIAM YARDLEY Los Angeles Times T he Colorado River begins as snowmelt in the Rocky Mountains and ends 1,450 miles south in Mexico ...
September 16, 2013

Learning to bend: Settling Utah's road wars

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BOOK REVIEW By Ed Marston High Country News Roads in the Wilderness: Conflict in Canyon Country Jedediah S. Rogers 242 pages, hardcov...
May 7, 2012

Jackrabbit Homestead: Artists, Off-Roaders, and the American Dream Writ Miniature

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By Kim Stringfellow KCET.org Jackrabbit homesteads are only for folks who have a bit of pioneering blood in their veins. The land gener...
February 1, 2012

African-Americans Shaping the California Desert: Homesteading in the Mojave

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by Chris Clarke KCET.org Journalist Delilah L. Beasley documented African-Americans' contribution to California in the 19th and early...
March 11, 2010

Harry Reid, the New Public Lands Enemy No. 1

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Remember Tom Daschle, Democrat Senate Majority Leader of the recent past, voted out in of office in his home state of South Dakota? Perhaps ...
May 7, 2009

Suspicious fire guts Charles Manson's remote Death Valley hide-out

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The Barker Ranch cabin's rock walls and tin roof are still intact, but its wooden interior beams and window and door frames are reduced ...
January 31, 2009

Mojave land trust achieves acquisition milestone

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Joshua Tree charity donates 10,000th acre to Park Service Hi-Desert Star JOSHUA TREE — The Mojave Desert Land Trust, a Joshua Tree public ch...
December 14, 2008

Mojave Desert historian keeps California's heritage alive

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Dennis G. Casebier stands in front of the library in Goffs, Calif., that bears his name. The railroad depot replica holds the world's la...
September 28, 2008

Goffs Depot reincarnated as library

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By A.D. HOPKINS Las Vegas Review-Journal Built as a replica of the historic Goffs Depot, this building is really a research library containi...
May 4, 2008

CALICO BASIN: Tranquillity lost

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Couple selling property near Red Rock to BLM By KEITH ROGERS Las Vegas Review-Journal Twenty-six years ago Gene and Becky Hutchinson bought ...
April 28, 2004

Agency claims home of woman

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By CHUCK MUELLER, Staff Writer San Bernardino Sun IVANPAH - A whitewashed bungalow in this old desert mining town southeast of Mountain Pass...
January 11, 2004

Mojave milestones

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Braving the perils of the historic road -- and nearly succeeding. By Susan Spano, Staff Writer Los Angeles Times A bullet-riddled street sig...