Coyote Crossing

Coyote Crossing Meetup report

tl;dr version: we had a great time and we’re doing it again, so be prepared to visit the desert on the weekend of April 21, 2012. We should have warm days and cool nights around then, and very dark skies.

Friday was a bit of a mess. I’d planned

The fleeting idea of permanence

I wrote an essay about a dozen years ago that is now obsolete, a hopeful piece about eternity in a marriage that has since ended. There is a line in it:

The year that Becky and I were married, we drove south to an un-named valley near Blythe, a

Another hike

Well, that hike I took a week ago isn’t any easier in the other direction. I went up the Museum Trail this time. I clearly have some work to do in the cardio department. I stopped about eight times to when I got too anoxic and dizzy.

Still a fun

Algodones Dunes Habitat Under Attack – Again

Algodones Dunes. Photo by Andrew Harvey

[From our colleagues at the Center for Biological Diversity, and crossposted from DesertBlog:]

For more than a decade, the Center for Biological Diversity has been fighting to keep southeastern

CEC 2 FTHL: FOAD

FTHL: SOL. Tom Budlong photo

Friends who have intervened in the permitting process for the proposed Solar Two site at Ocotillo, California, which would replace old-growth desert habitat for flat-tailed horned lizards with industrial power

Wow.

This is some great desert writing with a fantastic ending, and I mean that “fantastic” in a couple senses. Go read it … (continues)

Desert Solar Is Not Renewable Energy

[A sneak preview of a piece I wrote this week for the Desert Protective Council’s upcoming Educational Bulletin. I cribbed a few sentences from my earlier post on ancient blackbrush forests.]

As the reality of human-generated climate change grows