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What Do the L.A. Freeway System and the Lewis and Clark Expedition Have in Common? It's All in the Numbers
Post date:The American West has been organized around numbers, from Lewis and Clark to L.A. Freeways.
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Why California Should Ban Bobcat Trapping
Post date: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 bur...
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Cactus Spines Can Affect You Deeply
Post date:A painful step on a cactus leads writer Chris Clarke down the path of explaining the fearsome plant family's range of weapons.
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They Kept Ward Valley Nuclear-Free (Part 2)
Post date:An unprecedented coalition of Native people and other environmental activists fought the State of California to a standstill 15 years ago on a proposal to dump low-level nuclear waste in Ward Valley.
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Will ObamaCorps Become the New Civilian Conservation Corps?
Post date:The CCC built up the nation and the body politic -- can ObamaCorps do the same thing?
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They Kept Ward Valley Nuclear-Free (Part 1)
Post date:It's one of those places in the California desert where you can find yourself 20 miles off the pavement without much problem. It's also where California almost put its final dump for low-level nuclear waste.
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Divest Now? A Case for Our Immediate Emancipation from Fossil Fuels
Post date:Divesting ourselves from fossil fuels will not be easy, but we must act now.
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'To Act in Our Time': Will President Obama Green America?
Post date:President Obama's inaugural address actually mentioned climate change. It's time to do something about it.
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New Spider Species Remind Us Just How Much We Don't Know About the Desert
Post date: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.
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A Brief History of Pinnacles National Park
Post date:How Pinnacles National Monument became a National Park -- and why Red Rock still waits its turn
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Razed Expectations: Why It Matters that the Army Corps Bulldozed the Sepulveda Sanctuary
Post date:When the Army Corps sent bulldozers crashing through Sepulveda Basin it damaged nature and the civic arena
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Rains May Unlock An Enduring Mojave Mystery
Post date:If the Mojave Desert gets some rain in the next six weeks, then we might just see one of the desert's least-understood phenomena take place, as Joshua trees work to create a new generation of themselves.
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Shifting Tide: Southern California Sea Otter Ban Lifted
Post date:It is a great start to the new year that the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service's has decided to open Southern California's waters to the once-banned sea otters.
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The Tree of Knowledge
Post date:I don't know what kind of oak it is, and I don't realize as I take a dead leaf for later identification that I'm about to connect one of humankind's oldest technologies with one of our newest.
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What the Eagle Video Hoax Says About Our Place in Nature
Post date: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.
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O, Tannenbaum! Christmas Trees and Climate Change
Post date:Buying a real Christmas tree will help reduce your carbon footprint. Here's why.
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Circuit Breaker: How Solar Power Came to San Dimas
Post date:Solar Power is SoCal's future -- but we need need new policies to help it come online
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land use
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Owens Valley Water Wars Heat Up Again
Post date: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.
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Message from the Eocene: Re-reading the Florissant Fossil Beds
Post date:How a crucial victory for preservationists and all things prehistoric gave future generations an invaluable view into the past.
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Antelope Squirrels Get Ready For Winter
Post date: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.