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The Hidden Desert:
The last time you took a long road trip, did you assume you had enough gas because you checked the gas gauge a couple days ago? That's how California manages its bobcat population: letting the "supply" go uncounted for more than three decades as we burn through a thousand or more each year.
The Hidden Desert:
The discovery of 13 new desert spider species reminds us that our deserts are largely unexplored by biologists, and that we may be losing species before we know they're there.
The Hidden Desert:
Even exposed as a hoax, the "eagle captures child" video's immediate extreme popularity reminds us of something very real indeed about our place in the natural world.
The Hidden Desert:
In November, the California Air Resources Board ruled that according to data from lakebed monitors, the DWP was solely responsible for the horrendous air quality caused by dust blowing off Owens Lake. DWP's response? Get rid of the monitors.
The Hidden Desert:
Here's a Mojave Desert living pro-tip: don't leave your jackalope on the porch in November. If you do, the antelope squirrels will strip off its fur to line their nests.
The Hidden Desert:
I could only stand there, on the white line in the middle of the two-lane desert road, and hope the oncoming cars saw me in my dark clothing in time to slow and swerve around us.
The Hidden Desert:
The shifting seasons bring changes to the Mojave Desert
The Hidden Desert:
Joshua Tree National Park plans to make it easier for people to leave their cars and see cholla cacti by removing cholla to make more room for cars.
The Hidden Desert:
Keeping your cat inside really is better for everyone concerned: you, your cat, and the wildlife struggling to live outdoors.
The Hidden Desert:
If you see a woodpeckery-looking woodpecker in the Mojave, it's probably a ladder-backed.
The Hidden Desert:
We're approaching pine nut gathering time in the California Deserts.
The Hidden Desert:
Beneath the surface of the desert lies an ecosystem as intricate and diverse as a coral reef.
Wildlife:
A recent shark attack on a sea lion has prompted Santa Barbara officials to post warning signs at city beaches today.
Wildlife:
The coffee chain is caught in the middle of two cycles: one in nature, the other in the corporate world.
Wildlife:
It can only be described as massive, salty, sandy, beachfront orgy. And we had front row seats.
Wildlife:
Gambel's quail is a species widespread throughout the less-developed parts of the desert southwest.
Wildlife:
Sightings have been reported in two L.A. neighborhoods that stretch into the Santa Monica Mountains.
Wildlife:
News from the ominous Red List for at-risk and near-extinct animals includes two updates to California animals: the Sonoran mud turtle and Amargosa springsnail.
Wildlife:
The mountain lion that wandered into downtown Santa Monica and was fatally shot last month was a young male genetically linked to a local population and was not an exotic pet, according to the National Park Service.
Wildlife:
The Mojave has long stood in, in the public mind, for barrenness, an impression reinforced by generations of forbidding location shots in westerns and other films, but that couldn't be further from the truth.
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