December 29, 1999

True Grit - Cattle Ranching in the Mojave Desert Under Siege

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It's never been easy for cattle ranchers in the rugged western Mojave. Now laws designed to protect the desert tortoise threaten to end ...
November 22, 1999

Nonstop service to the Mojave Desert?

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by Tim Westby High Country News A 6,500-acre swath of federally owned desert, 10 miles from California's Mojave National Preserve, coul...
October 17, 1999

7.0 Quake Shakes Up California, Derails Train

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By Tom Gorman, Mitchell Landsberg Los Angeles Times The quake knocked Amtrak's Southwest Chief off its tracks. LUDLOW, Calif. - A magni...
September 22, 1999

Desert silence broken by 'rrrrring'

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Charlie Wilcox waits to answer calls from people all over the world From www.cnn.com BAKER, California (CNN) -- Fourteen miles from the near...
September 18, 1999

Reaching Way Out

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By JOHN M. GLIONNA, TIMES STAFF WRITER Los Angeles Times Lonesome Phone In the middle of the desert stands a phone waiting for a caller, any...
September 1, 1999

Don't fence him in

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Dennis Casebier preserves the human resources of the East Mojave Stuart Kellogg, Staff Writer Victor Valley Daily Press Yes, it was rude, bu...
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...