In this issue: • Soaring With The Condors: A Teenager’s Perspective • Renewable Energy and Changing Park Views • Climate Change on the High Desert Of Nevada • Desert Chaparral • A Different View of Owens Lake • Protecting the Heart of Mojave • ORV Routes in The Western Mojave: Adding Insult To Injury • […]
An Accurate Energy-Need Analysis Must be Part of the Plan By Joan Taylor Encompassing 22 million acres, the Desert Renewable Energy Conservation Plan (DRECP) is the biggest, most complicated habitat plan ever attempted. Here are a few things you ought to know about it. To give credit, DRECP is a laudable attempt by the California […]
Download PDF (1.2 MB) • Solar Sacrifice Zones: Who Decides? The Case of Charleston View • Tule Springs Fossil Beds National Monument • Owens Lake Mitigation Finally Settled • Meet Joshua Tree National Park’s New Superintendent: David Smith • Notes from the Gateway to Death Valley: Home Of The Scorpions • DRECP – Vision Or […]
Download PDF (1.2 MB) • DRECP Plans To Guide The Way: The Future Of The California Desert • An Appeal From The Managing Editor Of Desert Report • Volunteers: The Untrammeling Of Death Valley’s Wilderness • Juniper Flats • Energy Versus Tortoises: The Sequel • Watching The Southwest Border • Poems by Ruth Nolan • Timely […]
Neighbors Face Noise, Dust, and Toxins By Susan Juetten Here in northern Nevada we’ve all heard tales of the Comstock District silver and gold rush, about 30 miles southeast of Reno, which started up right after the ‘49er gold strike in California. Unlike gold towns that became ghost towns, people hung on here, and today […]
Leonard Knight 1931-2014 by Ruth Nolan This is what I want you to write to the world / that the answer is “love.” / I’ve painted the word “love” at least 24,000 times out here in the desert” — Leonard Knight, desert artist/visionary 1931-2014 This is the story of a lone desert mountain, a hill […]
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. […]
