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Golden Green:
Hiking in San Dimas Canyon offers a penetrating look into L.A. County's complicated fire history.
Commentary:
We know so little about the Black Hills in Imperial County. This piece may well be the only published description of the range's flora and fauna, sketchy as it is.
Golden Green:
In eliminating user fees on our public lands, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals damaged the national forests.
Commentary:
When I first started falling in love with the deserts, I rushed past places like this to get to the interesting stuff, but it took me a while to realize just what I was speeding past.
Golden Green:
Michael Heizer's LACMA installation called "Levitated Mass" is a troubling reminder of the environmental damage that Earth Art can produce.
Commentary:
Unless these storms bring Southern California some much-needed rain this week, most of the California desert isn't going to have a stunning spring wildflower display this year.
Golden Green:
James Mason Hutchings may be a better - and more sustainable - role model than John Muir. Here's why.
Wildlife:
Woodrats are popularly called "packrats," and with good reason. They're forever collecting little pieces of their surroundings.
Golden Green:
Why has SoCal Edison been dead-set against other organizations generating solar power?
Commentary:
The deadly, highly contagious disease affects dozens of animal species, including coyotes. The virus is mainly spread through contact with infected bodily fluids, urine among them.
Commentary:
Few wild animals inspire in people the complex mix of affection and loathing that coyotes do. That's a shame.
Golden Green:
Fracking is producing an economic boom and environmental disaster in South Texas.
Golden Green:
Wherein the author goes looking for gray whales and gets hooked by 19th-c. sailor-writer Richard Henry Dana.
Golden Green:
Blaming the Forest Service for the Station Fire is easy. It's a lot harder for Angelenos to accept that they are complicit in the monster fire's destruction.
Golden Green:
Americans have a conflicted relationship with weeds.
Commentary:
Here are some resolutions you can adopt that will help protect California's deserts. What distinguishes this list of resolutions from most others is that these are all either easy, or fun, or both.
Golden Green:
How nuts is this? The U.S. is building a 300-foot-long fence into the Pacific to stop illegal migration.
Golden Green:
Golden State Water Company wants to raise its rates; citizens are fighting back. Are they asking the right questions?
Golden Green:
Republicans want to torch Smokey Bear to save a couple of bucks. But that's not what they are really up to.
Commentary:
Is the Riverside East Solar Energy Zone in the California desert appropriate for solar development?
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