A Wonderful Bloom at the Eureka Dunes By Birgitta Jansen When Mike Cipra left his job in Death Valley National Park in February 2014, his wife Jane, the park’s botanist, did not go with him. When curious park staffers asked her how much longer she was staying, her face lit up and she replied with […]
Hills, Mountains, and Valleys By Duncan Bell While this is a time to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Wilderness Act, it is also a good time to think about other areas that have not yet been given wilderness designation. In the previous two issues of Desert Report I have written about several wild places […]
Download PDF (1.2 MB) • More Wild Places That Need Wilderness Designation • Kathy Billings: Superintendent Of Death Valley Nat’l Park • Amazing Eurekensis: A Wonderful Bloom at Eureka Dunes • Wilderness Concept: How It Has Affected Native Americans • My Wilderness: A Florida Native Discovers the CA Desert • Leonard Knight 1931-2014 • Residential Mining In Nevada’s Historic Comstock • Story […]
Proposed Solar Project Would Require PEIS Variance from BLM by Jack Prichett Silurian Valley, a majestic desert basin flanked by the 6,000-foot-plus Avawatz, Soda, and Kingston ranges, is undeveloped. The nearest community is 17 miles south, the town of Baker. Head north from Baker on California Highway 127 and the Mojave Desert unfolds before you. […]
WILD PLACES THAT NEED WILDERNESS DESIGNATION, PART 2 By Duncan Bell In the previous issue of Desert Report, several locations were mentioned that are truly wild places, under threat from development, that have not yet been designated as wilderness. In this issue, with the focus on locations in the east Mojave, I present a few […]
a lesson for the Future by Craig Deutsche, former editor of the Desert Report Entering Death Valley from the south, one is nearly compelled to pass through the small town of Shoshone, California. While there is a highway maintenance station near the village entrance and a modern gas station as well, it would be […]
Download PDF (2 MB) • Pioneers In The Desert • Silurian Valley In The Crosshairs • Solar Tentacles Reach Into Owens Valley • The Wilderness Act: History Of Wilderness In Southern California • The Wilderness Act: The East Mojave • Interview With Steve Mietz, Superintendant of Great Basin National Park • Ocotillo Wells • The Impacts Of Energy Projects On Migratory Birds […]
Download PDF (1.4 MB) • Visioning and Marketing of Desert Natural and Cultural Heritage Tourism: The Renewable Tourism Economy • The West Mojave Area And the Travel Management Plan: Unbalanced Subgroup Leads To Flawed Result • Will There Ever Be A Desert Tortoise National Wildlife Refuge? • What Is Wilderness? Revisiting The Wilderness Act Of 1964 • Manzanar: Farewell […]
The Visioning and Marketing of Desert Natural and Cultural Heritage Tourism By Mark Faull Thirty years ago when I moved to the Mojave Desert this amazing landscape captured me. A northern Californian by birthright and experience, I thought my residency would last three years before taking in additional wonders of California’s State Park System. Such […]
Kumeyaay Indian Mourning Ceremony for the loss of cultural and geographic habitat for Ocotillo Wind Express Project at Ocotillo, California, June 2012 by Ruth Nolan In June, 2012 I saw three golden eagles on the morning and following morning of the long, split moon night of a night-long mourning ceremony sponsored by Kumeyaay Indians who […]
