May 26, 2011

The Old Spanish Trail, Explained

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New Mexico to Southern California Old Spanish Trail (in red). (National Park Service) by Nathan Masters KCET Although Southern Califor...
May 18, 2011

Marines invade Johnson Valley

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JUDI BOWERS Big Bear Grizzly Johnson Valley -- Off-road and outdoor enthusiasts are doing their best to prevent losing the largest open...
May 14, 2011

Government tramples on citizens as it seizes desert

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By RICHARD CROWE The Press-Enterprise Opinion For decades, the Sierra Club and environmental groups like it have successfully eliminated ...
May 13, 2011

Water plan being developed for Mojave National Preserve

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Restored game guzzler near Goffs, March 25, 2009. (Chris S. Ervin) By KAREN JONAS, staff writer Barstow Desert Dispatch MOJAVE NATIONA...
May 6, 2011

Solar threat

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Desert Tortoise Estimate Undercuts ESA Listing Opinion Riverside Press-Enterprise The discovery of far more desert tortoises than expecte...
May 1, 2011

Bill to protect desert backed by once-fierce foes

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Carolyn Lochhead, San Francisco Chronicle Washington Bureau Washington -- In 1994, a rookie lawmaker named Dianne Feinstein pushed throug...
April 27, 2011

Owls, Mules and Lizards: the makeup of federal land management

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Today we have federal employees who are paid to stop productivity by Marita Noon Marita Noon Farming, ranching, mining, and extraction...
April 20, 2011

Tortoise finds curtail solar-site construction

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Brightsource doesn't see stoppage impacting construction schedule The Brightsource Energy solar power site in the Ivanpah Valley. The...
April 11, 2011

Dubois tapped for superintendent of Mojave National Preserve

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Superintendent Stephanie Dubois, Mojave National Preserve   Needles Desert Star OAKLAND, Calif. - Stephanie Dubois has been selecte...
April 4, 2011

20-Mule Team named as 2011 Grand Marshal

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(Photo courtesy Dave McCoy Photography) BISHOP -- They've graced show arenas, made a number of Pasadena Rose Parade appearances and lon...
March 21, 2011

Dead in plane crash were woman, kids

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Investigators with the Federal Aviation Administration and the National Transportation Safety Board investigate the wreckage of a Cessna 21...
March 16, 2011

Historic Inland Empire cemetery receives federal funds

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Leticia Juarez KABC-TV Los Angeles ORO GRANDE, MOJAVE DESERT (KABC) -- A historic cemetery in Oro Grande near Victorville has been calle...
March 1, 2011

Pioneertown will pay for its water

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A Letter from Gay Smith Pioneertown Property Owners Association Hi-Desert Star I would like to set the record straight — Pioneertown wat...
February 27, 2011

SCE plans $750 million project to link solar plants to grid

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Public input sought on new transmission corridor through Hesperia, Lucerne Natasha Lindstrom Victor Valley Daily Press HESPERIA • Southe...
February 25, 2011

MOJAVE DESERT: Military seeks OHV area for exercises

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By DAVID DANELSKI The Press-Enterprise The military wants to expand its Twentynine Palms training grounds to take in more than two-third...
February 19, 2011

Pioneertown about to rip off Yucca Valley

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Letter from Dee and Bill Campbell Yucca Valley Hi-Desert Star Listen up, taxpayers of Yucca Valley. We are all about to be ripped off. ...
February 16, 2011

Act would set aside Mojave land

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The bill states that there shall be no commercial development within the areas locked up. Seth Shteir of the National Parks Conservation ...
February 3, 2011

Hatch: Stop Obama’s War On The West

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Opinion Sen. Orrin Hatch St. George News Utah is one of the most beautiful places on earth. In their latest attack on the rural West, P...
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...