August 21, 1999

PRESERVING AMERICA'S LANDS LEGACY (CA)

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Press Release on the Environment (California Exerpt) THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary -----------------------------------------...
May 24, 1999

Greens not welcome in Escalante

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by Brent Israelsen High Country News ESCALANTE, Utah - Heavy machinery rolled into town the week of April 12. Construction was imminent on t...
March 29, 1999

Land deal links desert parks

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by Juniper Davis High Country News A California-based land trust has arranged to put almost 500,000 acres of mountaintop forests, sand dune...
January 11, 1999

Letter of Intent Signed to Sell Up to 437,000 Acres of California Desert Land to the Federal Government

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Press Release Business Wire SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE) Catellus Development Corp. (NYSE:CDX), The Wildlands Conservancy and the U.S. Dep...
August 3, 1998

THE WAYWARD WEST

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By Dustin Solberg High Country News, Paonia, CO Vast tracts of inholdings in the Mojave National Preserve in California are for sale - and i...
April 14, 1997

The Mojave National Preserve: 1.4 million acres of contradictions

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Postmistress and shopkeeper Irene Ausmus in front of the Cima store. by Elizabeth Manning High Country News CIMA, Calif. - Like most of he...

Beauty and the Beast

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The president’s new monument forces southern Utah to face its tourism future Enraged, county commissioners sent bulldozers into the new monu...
March 26, 1995

New Life for the Lonesome Desert

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The East Mojave Was Recently Designated A National Preserve, But Even So, Few People Have Discovered Its Subtle, Silent Pleasures Kelso Du...
June 20, 1994

The Lion of the Desert

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Peter Burk's 18-Year Crusade Has Made California's Mojave National Park a Hot Topic By Susan Reed People Magazine - Vol. 41, No. 23 ...
June 29, 1992

Most Powerful Quake in 40 Years Hits California

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Robert Reinhold New York Times Fault trace from the 1992 Landers earthquake is revealed in damaged roadway. T he most powerful earthquake to...
January 31, 1991

Bagdad Fades Into the Desert--in California

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Postcard image of Bagdad on Route 66 in 1939 (Burton Frasher) By CHARLES HILLINGER Los Angeles Times BAGDAD, Calif. — Ever since Iraq...
February 9, 1982

Hoist a Root Beer for Family of Yucca Cutters

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Milton Blair uses a chainsaw to cut a yucca tree on Mojave Desert leased land. Watching are two of his daughters, five sons. (Ben Olender ...
January 6, 1970

'Desert Padre' Author Putnam Dies at Trona

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January 6, 1950 The Ridgecrest Herald Ridgecrest CA Amelia Earhart and George Putnam made an unusual husband-and-wife team. M ...