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Air Apparent: L.A.'s Bright Skies Are Not As Clear As They Seem
Post date:L.A. may have fewer ozone-alert days, but our air quality is still dangerous
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'Seeking The Greatest Good' Documents a New Geography of Hope
Post date:A new documentary, "Seeking the Greatest Good," identifies key steps we can take to restore the Earth -- and ourselves.
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Joshua Tree Bloom Due To Climate Change? Not So Fast
Post date:I've warned of the danger of human-created climate change since the early 1970s, so you might expect me to be completely on board with this analysis. I'm not.
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The Living Library: Bringing California Native Plants to the Branches
Post date:Libraries are learning institutions. Albeit indirectly, I learned about California native plants through my local library, and the learning continues today.
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Rat Poison Is the New DDT, and Marijuana Is the Problem
Post date:Illegal marijuana growers' extreme use of rodenticides is wreaking havoc on California national forests. It's time for the legislature to ban these super toxins.
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The Grand Defiance of Agave Blooms
Post date:Heading downhill yesterday toward "downtown" Joshua Tree I saw it. It was the developing stalk of a flower, growing out of one of my neighbors' Agaves.
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Forest Service Gets to Keep Pine Tree Logo, But Controversy Points to Larger Problem
Post date:The Forest Service's pine tree logo is now safe from the USDA's rebranding effort. Its historic emblem should never have been attacked.
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Butterflies in the Desert
Post date:A memoir from September 2007 of butterflies, and night skies, and coming to terms with loss in the Mojave desert.
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Where the Water Comes From: Owning -- And Owing -- the Owens Valley
Post date:Do yourself a favor, and go to the Owens River Valley to see where your water actually originates.
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Why Is USDA Stripping the Forest Service of its Pine Tree Logo?
Post date:USDA is rebranding the entire department, forcing the Forest Service and other agencies to adopt its bland logo. This is a really bad idea..
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Fires, Floods, and Human History -- The Value of a Single SoCal Creek
Post date:Thompson Creek is a symbol of how much a creek can matter, to SoCal civilizations past and to the very real wildfires and floods of the present.
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Why Isn't the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Protecting Eagles?
Post date:If FWS really wanted to get "aggressive" in enforcing the provisions of the Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act that protect eagles, it would send a message not by way of a press release, but by way of the local U.S. Attorney.
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Joshua Trees and Family Trees, A Remembrance
Post date:I left New York at 22 and hitchhiked west. I awoke one morning in northern Nevada. The emptiness of the desert landscape completely unnerved me. The landscape seemed unadorned and ugly, and yet I could not tear my eyes off the far hills.
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Group Petitions to List Desert Kit Fox as Threatened
Post date:Desert kit foxes are in trouble, facing threats from industrial development of their habitat to a deadly outbreak of distemper that's killing untold numbers of foxes.
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'Crisis Mode': Sick Sea Lions a Growing Concern in Orange County
Post date:A Laguna Beach-based marine life rescue group has seen such an increase in the number of severely dehydrated and malnourished sea lion pups this season that the organization is calling it an epidemic.
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Forest to Faucet: Why National Forests Are More Than Recreational Spaces
Post date:Water made the west, and that's why Forest Service Chief Tom Tidwell is promoting its protection.
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Bill Would Ban Bobcat Trapping in California
Post date:After controversy was sparked in Joshua Tree, a bill has been introduced into the state legislature that would end the California's nearly unregulated bobcat trapping season.
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Forest Service Chief Talks Climate Change -- in Washington and on the Ground
Post date:How to manage the national forests amid climate disruption? Forest Service Chief Tom Tidwell has some ideas.
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What The Heck is a Milk-Vetch?
Post date:If it seems to you you've heard the word "milk-vetch" come up in one desert environmental issue after another, you're remembering right.
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Why Taxpayers Are Getting Burned by Climate Change
Post date:The more we ignore climate change the greater the costs will be, says the Government Accounting Office. Its numbers add up.