June 21, 2017

Colorado’s runoff has peaked

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Lake Powell 65 percent full, but much of it going to Mead Lake Powell By Gary Harmon The Daily Sentinel T he runoff of 2017 is over and...
June 13, 2017

Mitchell Caverns’ long-awaited reopening postponed

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Mitchell Caverns’ reopening has been delayed until October in the eastern Mojave Desert’s Providence Mountains. State park officials had h...
June 6, 2017

How Pappy & Harriet's Went From Dive Bar to a Music Destination

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Pappy & Harriet's (Courtesy Pappy & Harriet's) BY GWYNEDD STUART LA Weekly D uring its heyday as a film and TV set — fr...
May 18, 2017

Capturing the Mojave Desert

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Painters, Photographers, Poets, and More Invited to Artist-in-Residence Program A spring scene from the Mojave National Preserve (Matt Kettm...
May 16, 2017

Nevada rancher, water authority opponent Dean Baker dead at 77

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Rancher Dean Baker talks strategy with fellow Snake Valley residents at a 2009 meeting in advance of a hearing on plans to pipe groundwate...
May 5, 2017

Animal Predatory Behavior Decreases Near Desert Wind Turbines, Study Finds

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"These findings could be helpful in assisting managers to design future wind energy facilities with species in mind." Wind turbine...
April 26, 2017

The Desert Oracle's Ken Layne

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Protege of Country Dick Montana and Buddy Blue Seigal Ken Layne: The desert is very good for revelations. By Matthew Lickona San Diego Rea...

Trump executive order puts Sand to Snow, Mojave Trails national monuments in crosshairs

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The Mojave Trails National Monument spans 1.6 million acres that offer a stunning mosaic of rugged mountain ranges, ancient lava flows and s...
April 14, 2017

Marines move imperiled desert tortoises out of harm’s way

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Biologists work with the USMC, BLM, the California and US Fish & Wildlife Services to relocate about 1,100 to 1,500 Desert Tortoises f...
April 13, 2017

Once-abandoned Searchlight subdivision may soon be buzzing with drones

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Aerial view of Searchlight airport on Tuesday, April 11, 2017. Jonathan Daniels, founder of Praxis Aerospace Concepts International, plans...
April 4, 2017

Feinstein fumes as Trump team waives environmental review for Mojave water project

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Scott Slater, CEO of the Cadiz water project, stands near a basin at the project site near Needles, California, Slater and Cadiz have recent...

Trump administration boosts huge Mojave Desert water-pumping project

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Environmentalists say the Cadiz project would rob the desert of the water that plants and wildlife need to survive. A pumping station design...
April 3, 2017

Long-Living Tortoises Roam Protected Portion of Mojave Desert

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Desert tortoise By Renee Eng Spectrum News CALIFORNIA CITY, Calif. — In the Mojave Desert, it’s not uncommon to see rabbits or even ...
April 1, 2017

Got $5 million? You could own this sustainable "ghost town" in the Mojave Desert

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In the Mojave Desert town of Nipton, the spirit of Western frontier has transformed a forgotten outpost into a self-sustaining ecotopia wher...
March 28, 2017

When the Desert Blooms

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Anza Borrego Desert State Park in Southern California (iStock) James MacDonald JSTOR T he California desert is awash in color. Followin...

LADWP scrambling to prepare dusty Owens Valley for possible floods

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Overflow from the Owens River creates a mirror pond near Bishop reflecting the snow-capped Sierras. (Mark Boster / Los Angeles Times) by...
March 24, 2017

Ecologist Steps in to Lead Mojave Desert Research, Education Center

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Darren R. Sandquist is the new Desert Studies Consortium director. CSUF News Service F or over 25 years, ecologist Darren R. Sandquis...
March 5, 2017

BLM stops efforts to restore desert water sources

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Jim Matthews By Jim Matthews Hesperia Star www.OutdoorNewsService.com W ater for Wildlife, a desert conservation organization that r...