November 30, 2012

County Opposes Wind Turbines On Black Lava Butte and Flat Top Mesa

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Black Lava Butte and Flat Top Mesa. San Bernardino County Sentinel I n one of his last acts as Third District county supervisor, Neil ...
November 29, 2012

BrightSource Seeks Changes In Ivanpah Tortoise Plan

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by Chris Clarke KCET B rightSource Energy, developer of the Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System now under construction in the Ca...
November 19, 2012

US, Mexico To Sign Landmark Colorado River Agreement

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About 30 million people in seven western States and two Mexican states depend on Colorado River water. After years of negotiations the U.S. ...

Feds begin high-flow releases from Glen Canyon

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Experiments will occur yearly in hope of restoring Grand Canyon’s ecological vitality. The high-flow release of water into the Colorado Riv...
November 15, 2012

Mojave Cross to return to desert home

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National Park rangers to send back cross Golden Gate National Recreation Area ranger Nijaune Winston stands by the Mojave Cross. The Natio...
November 11, 2012

Cross stands again

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The new Mojave Cross after it was installed on Sunday, November 11, Veterans Day. (DAVID OLSON/STAFF PHOTO) BY DAVID OLSON Press-Enter...
November 5, 2012

Stolen Mojave cross mysteriously reappears in California

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An unsigned note was found taped to the Mojave Memorial Cross, which was found Monday. A new cross is due to be raised atop Sunrise Rock at ...
November 4, 2012

Mojave Cross to be re-erected on Veterans Day

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Henry Sandoz and his wife, Wanda, visit the monument to fallen service members in Mojave National Preserve in October 2008, before the U.S. ...
November 1, 2012

Environmentalists sue over Cadiz water project

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Karen Tracy of Joshua Tree protests a groundwater management plan for the Cadiz project outside a San Bernardino County Supervisors meetin...
October 22, 2012

Mojave National Preserve Proposal Threatens Wildlife

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ALERT : Under the guise of a comprehensive water management plan, the National Park Service is proposing the removal of critical water sourc...
October 21, 2012

A Mojave Desert cross brings a lot of things to bear

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The head of the Mojave National Preserve had little reason to think that an exchange over a memorial built in 1934 would spur a 13-year saga...
October 15, 2012

Desert fossil discovery reveals surprises

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Desert tortoise eggs are among the finds at a solar project in eastern Riverside County A fragment of ivory from an Ice Age mammoth was f...

New Rules for Meteorite Hunters

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The Bureau of Land Management has new rules governing the collection of meteorites found on public lands A close-up of the Sutter’s Mill ...
October 14, 2012

Massive turbines rise in Ocotillo

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By Alejando Davila | Staff Writer Imperial Valley Press For Don Quixote, windmills were monstrous giants, some with arms nearly two leagu...
October 5, 2012

Board Endorses LA & Orange Counties Draining Desert Aquifer

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San Bernardino County Sentinel Seth Shteir, of the National Parks Conservation Association, speaks during a protest of the groundwater man...
October 4, 2012

Canal break slows Colorado River flow

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State Route 72 following a breach in a Central Arizona Project canal near Bouse Arizona, early Sunday morning. (Photo courtesy John Mickey...
October 1, 2012

County supervisors approve Cadiz desert water pumping plan

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Ruth Musser-Lopez, a former council member from Needles, speaks during a protest of the groundwater management plan for the Cadiz project, b...