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Multi-disciplinary
Artbound
Inside the World of Recreational Miners
Post date:On a smaller scale, recreational prospecting is thriving throughout the West — especially in its desert regions.
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Multi-disciplinary
Artbound
Cities of Gold: The Mojave Desert's Boom and Busts
Post date:Exploration of the Mojave Desert was directly driven by the desire to locate gold. These hell-bent gold seekers would bring about enduring cultural transformations and irreversible environmental legacies within California and other western states.
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Lost L.A.
Bodie: The Ghostliest of Ghost Towns
Post date:From bad-guy shooters to gold and silver bonanzas, there’s much that has been lost from the once-thriving mining town of Bodie. There’s still more that's left to protect in the ghost town that survived the Wild West.
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endangered species
Redefine
Unlikely Partnership May Save Unlikely Desert Snail
Post date:Gold miners and radical environmentalists rarely make friends. But strange things always happen in the Mojave Desert.
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Multi-disciplinary
Artbound
Still Searching for the Mojave’s Lost River of Gold
Post date:The Kokoweef legend peddling E.P. Dorr’s Lost River of Gold has mesmerized Mojave Desert treasure seekers for over 80 years now, but is it geologically possible?
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irwindale
Lost L.A.
Irwindale: Mining the Building Blocks of Los Angeles
Post date:Much of the raw material for L.A.'s freeways and concrete structures comes from Irwindale, where rock, sand, and gravel mining has long dominated the local economy.
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Catalina Island
Lost L.A.
How Catalina Evaded the Conquest
Post date:Angelenos use Santa Catalina Island as a smog barometer, but few know how its pristine natural beauty abided against all odds.
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Amargosa Conservancy
Redefine
New Desert Bill is Fundamentally Flawed
Post date:Representative Paul Cook recently introduced a bill that would make sweeping changes in the way we administer desert lands.
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mining
Redefine
10 California Mine Disasters Worse Than August's Spill in Colorado
Post date:As the accident at Colorado's Gold King Mine fades from the news, it's time to provide a little context.
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Multi-disciplinary
Artbound
High & Dry: Caretaking the Ghosts of Cerro Gordo
Post date:In Cerro Gordo, a deserted mining camp in the Sierra Nevadas that dates back to the mid 1870's, the howling spirits of the past continue to haunt the living.
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Wildlife
Earth Focus
Mining Battles: Uranium, Coal and Gold
Episode 67
Post date:An impoverished former mining community in Colorado, endangered rhinos' new threat, and gold mining in Ecuador.
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San Gabriel River
Departures
Eldoradoville: The Forgotten Boom Town of the San Gabriels
Post date:In 1860, this boom town was thriving along the San Gabriel Rivers East Fork, boasting general stores, black smith shops, and more than a few saloons.
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Redefine
The Times They Are A-Changin': Wind, Solar to be Favored Over Mining Claims
Post date:The BLM is taking measures to ensure that applications for solar and wind projects are given higher priority than other potential uses.
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Arrival Stories
History & Society
Tom Mueller: From Idaho Logger To Space Explorer
Post date:Tom Mueller, VP of Propulsion Development for private spaceflight firm SpaceX, made his way through the Idaho woods to become a rocket engineer. And the results of his hard work is about to lift off.
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Where's Huell
Huell Howser
Where's Huell 2/22 - 2/28
Post date:This week, it's man versus nature as Huell visits some of California's natural wonders: Mt. San Jacinto, the Vernal Pools outside Sacramento, and Anza-Borrego State Park.