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public lands
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Feds OK Huge, Controversial Solar Project Near Mojave Preserve
Post date:The facility doesn't have a buyer for its power or any way to get that power to market, but the BLM approved it anyway.
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Wildlife
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Ten Great Places To Go Birding in The California Desert
Post date:Devoted birders can visit plenty of places right here in the California Desert to get their bird on.
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Amargosa River
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Opinion: Desert Plan Balances Renewables and Conservation
Post date:The U.S. Department of the Interior is moving to a smarter, wide-scale planning that safeguards our most important lands.
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California Desert Protection Act
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Poll: Majority of Californians Support Desert Monuments
Post date:Despite legislative attempts to block full protection, most Californians favor preserving huge swaths of the California Desert.
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Amargosa Conservancy
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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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Wildlife
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Desert Bloom Means Desert Butterflies: 6 Nice Ones to Watch For
Post date:Where there are desert flowers, there are desert butterflies. Here are six of the showiest and most interesting.
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baker
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Opposition Swells to Solar Plant Next to Mojave Preserve
Post date:Some opponents are calling it "the worst renewable energy project currently under consideration."
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desert center
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Feds Laud Solar Project Near National Park, Forget to Mention Park
Post date:In the Interior Department's PR marking the launch of the Desert Sunlight Solar Farm,Interior never mentions Joshua Tree National Park, next door.
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Firm Appeals Feds' No-Go of Silurian Valley Solar
Post date:A federal thumbs-down to a 1,600-acre solar facility south of Death Valley National Park is being appealed by the owners of the project.
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reptiles
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New Center for Tortoises Opens in Mojave Preserve
Post date:A first-of-its-kind center for studying the federally Threatened desert tortoise was formally donated to the Mojave National Preserve on Friday.
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desert
SoCal Wanderer
Get Ready for Road Closures: Monsoon Season is Happening in the Desert
Post date:Monsoon season has started a little early in the Mojave Desert, and thunderstorms have been making their mark on the landscape.
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ladwp
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Retired National Park Leaders Oppose Soda Mountain Solar
Post date:Five retired National Park Service Superintendents who spent a cumulative 35 years managing California's three desert National Parks are asking the Bureau of Land Management to move a 4,000-acre solar project they say would threaten the Mojave National...
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desert harvest
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Departing Joshua Tree Superintendent Slams Desert Solar
Post date:A 38-year veteran of the National Park Service who capped his career by spending three years running Joshua Tree National Park has come out against a solar project proposed for the central Mojave Desert in no uncertain terms.
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baker
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National Park Service Slams Solar Project Near Mojave Preserve
Post date:The National Park Service (NPS) isn't happy about a proposal to build a large solar facility on almost 4,200 acres next door to the Mojave National Preserve, citing the project's threats to wildlife, rare plants, groundwater, air quality, and wildernes...
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Group Sues to Block New Desert Solar Projects Over Threat to Tortoises
Post date:The group Defenders of Wildlife filed suit today to overturn the Interior Department's approval of two large solar projects planned for the Ivanpah Valley in the Mojave Desert south of Las Vegas, saying that the projects were approved without enough co...
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mammals
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'Worst-Case Scenario' Disease in Mojave Bighorn Sheep Crosses State Lines
Post date:In what wildlife agency staff are calling a "worst case scenario," two different killer strains of a pathogen that causes infectious pneumonia have been found in Southern Nevada's desert bighorn sheep, and one of those strains is the same one that's be...
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desert tortoise
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Feds Green Light 2 More Solar Projects in Ivanpah Valley
Post date:The U.S. Interior Department announced Wednesday it was approving two large solar projects in the Mojave Desert that may displace or harm more than 2,000 desert tortoises
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joshua trees
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What I'm Thankful For, 1,000 Times Over
Post date:It seems like a good opportunity for reflection.
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Bechtel
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7 Square Mile Solar Project Next to Mojave National Preserve Advances
Post date:The Bureau of Land Management is now looking for public comment on a proposed 4,397-acre solar facility between the Mojave National Preserve and the Soda Mountains Wilderness Study Area, in an area that some describe as "core" undeveloped Mojave Desert...
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stargazing
SoCal Wanderer
9 Mindblowing Stargazing Sites in California's High Desert
Post date:Here are nine High Desert places for watching those heavenly bodies, including one site that's the darkest we've ever mentioned.