January 27, 2011

Water worries: The drying of the West

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The Colorado River and the civilisation it waters are in crisis Lake Mead's "bathtub ring" at Hoover Dam. The Economist STA...
January 25, 2011

Feinstein reintroduces desert protection bill

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Senators Barbara Boxer (D-CA) and Dianne Feinstein (D-CA). By DAVID DANELSKI The Press-Enterprise Sen. Dianne Feinstein on Tuesday reint...
January 22, 2011

Technology reviving mine

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Molycorp winds up in position of power Scott Honan, environmental manager for Molycorp Minerals, talks about the Molycorp rare earth mine ...
January 15, 2011

Unfettered vistas restored in remote valley

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This is one of the massive pits left behind after years of gold mining at the Hart mining area. Those pits will remain amid other reclamatio...
January 14, 2011

Renovated depot in Kingman opens this spring

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February open house will mark end of decade in red tape limbo Dusty footprints still spread across the floor of the newly-renovated Kingm...
January 2, 2011

Feinstein vows to pass new Desert Protection Act

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By BEN GOAD The Press-Enterprise WASHINGTON - Sixteen years ago, the clock was ticking on landmark legislation to protect millions of ac...
December 1, 2010

Board Accepts Grant for Victor Valley Museum

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Supervisor Brad Mitzelfelt Mitzelfelt Memo T he San Bernardino County Board of Supervisors authorized the County Museum to receive a gr...
November 30, 2010

Boxer, Reid huddle over strategy for massive resources bill

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Colleagues enlist Reid's help with last-ditch push for massive water, lands, wildlife package By Paul Quinlan, John McArdle and Patrick...
November 25, 2010

Demolition crews take down Carl Bray house

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The Carl Bray House and Gallery was demolished and will soon be replaced with an “interpretive exhibit” to showcase artifacts from the histo...
November 24, 2010

Dennis Schramm to Retire

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Mojave National Preserve NPS Digest Dennis Schramm, Superintendent of Mojave National Preserve for the last five years and a 33-year-vet...
November 7, 2010

Acres may be fenced off for protection of endangered plant

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By KAREN JONAS, staff writer Barstow Desert Dispatch NEAR FORT IRWIN • About 14,000 acres of land near Fort Irwin could be fenced off and...
October 18, 2010

Water: Lake Mead Is at Record Low Levels

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Is the Southwest Drying Up? Posted by Bryan Walsh Time Droughts and overconsumption are sucking Lake Mead dry. (Ethan Miller/Getty) T he...
October 11, 2010

Madeleine Pickens purchases Nevada ranch, hopes to relocate wild horses there

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Wild horses run as they are gathered by the Bureau of Land Management in the Conger Mountains of Utah on Sept. 8. (Jim Urquhart / Reuters) ...
October 8, 2010

Bobcat kits snuggle in tree

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By Rebecca Unger Hi-Desert Star Photo by Julianne Koza PIONEERTOWN — Julianne Koza and her friend LynAnne Felts were cruising down Pipe...
September 1, 2010

Kane County Wins First RS 2477 Road

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by Morgan Skinner KCSG News Kcsg Television (L-R) Kane County Commissioners Mark Habbeshaw, Daniel Hulet, Doug Heaton with State Represen...
August 30, 2010

Mudslide Clean-Up Continues; Highway 395 Open

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Thunderstorm-caused mudslide at Dunmovin, California, pushes a big rig off the northbound U. S. Highway 395 and into a culvert on Thursday...
August 26, 2010

Flash flood warning issued for Mojave preserve

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From Staff Reports Desert Dispatch A flash flood warning is in effect for areas within the Mojave National Preserve and the Morongo Basi...
August 24, 2010

Dozens of burros die at dried-up spring

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By DAVID DANELSKI The Press-Enterprise Fenner Spring CA - Nearly 60 burros were discovered dead in and near a horizontal mine shaft in a ...
July 1, 2010

An Artistic Apprenticeship

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Surrounded by the vast Gila wilderness, learning to paint with the reclusive desert artist Carl Faber "Desert Wash" by Carl Fabe...