March 28, 2015

San Bernardino County’s national parks face huge repair backlog

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"The potholes on the road in the (Mojave) National Preserve are so bad that people are getting flat tires." Joshua Tree National P...
March 13, 2015

Desert tortoise gets 7,400 acres

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Biologist Jeff Valentine, working for BrightSource, walks back to his truck just outside the gates of the BrightSource solar project in 2011...
March 10, 2015

Desert plan shifts focus to public land

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Federal and state officials put plans for privately owned land on the back burner. Larry LaPre, a wildlife biologist for the U.S. Bureau of...

The Desert Oracle Is Your New Favorite Guidebook

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by Rick Paulas KCET.org T he Desert Oracle is a new print quarterly, and it's amazing. I could try to come up with the perfect 100 w...
March 7, 2015

Water grab pits Las Vegas against Mormons

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Spring Valley, which sits atop an aquifer 263 miles from the country clubs and casinos of Las Vegas, is the focus of a Nevada legal fight...
February 27, 2015

As the River Runs Dry: The Southwest's water crisis

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ARIZONA AND THE SOUTHWEST SEEK A BALANCE OF GROWTH AND WATER CONSERVATION AS SUPPLY CONTINUES TO DECLINE Evening and water levels fall at...
February 9, 2015

Bill would create two new Mojave Desert national monuments

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Sen. Dianne Feinstein introduces legislation that aims to balance open space protections with off-highway vehicle use, energy development. ...
February 2, 2015

Storms repairs complete, Old Route 66 reopens

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Inland News Today LUDLOW – (INT) – National Trails Highway (Old Route 66) is back in business 5-months after last September’s monsoon sto...
December 31, 2014

Eagle Mountain legal battle settled after 15 years

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A massive iron ore mining pit at Eagle Mountain in the remote desert just east of the Coachella Valley. (Jay Calderon, The Desert Sun) S...
December 13, 2014

Arizona farmers take hit to stave off water crisis

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Rock Island’s “bathtub ring” illustrates how the water level at Lake Mead has dropped. It is at 1,085 feet, 10 above a level that would tr...

County Pushing Daggett, Yermo & Newberry Springs CSD Mergers

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Map of existing Daggett (green), Yermo (blue), and Newberry (purple) Community Service Districts. (SBC LAFCO/ESRI) San Bernardino Sentin...
December 5, 2014

Water Woes Among Topics For 8 Governors In Vegas

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A view of the Colorado River from a scenic overlook at Glen Canyon on Nov. 22, 2004, in Page, Ariz. (Photo by Jeff Topping/Getty Images) K...
November 25, 2014

SMWD establishes agency to oversee Cadiz groundwater project

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By TOMOYA SHIMURA Orange County Register A project that will pump drinking water from a Mojave Desert aquifer and pipe it to south Oran...