Posts tagged “JOSHUA TREE NATIONAL PARK”
  • Final Location for the October 14-16 Coyote Crossing Meetup
    By Chris Clarke on 2011 10 10 at 11:40:09 pm | 4 comments | Shorter URL: http://coyot.es/x9Ae

    After a bit of scouting around with Florian Boyd a couple weeks ago, we found a better location for the Coyote Crossing meetup this weekend than the one adjacent to the Cottonwood Entrance to Joshua Tree National Park.

    That location is here.

    For

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  • This is what happens when it rains in the desert
    By Chris Clarke on 2011 09 24 at 10:19:26 pm | 0 comments | Shorter URL: http://coyot.es/x6ve

    Ya got yer desert trees, most of ‘em legumes, like this ironwood here.

    Tree

    There’s very little usable nitrogen in the soil in the desert. Plants need nitrogen for crucial metabolic processes, chief among them making amino acids and proteins. Without

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  • Coyote Crossing Meetup Update: Location Found!
    By Chris Clarke on 2011 09 24 at 6:16:41 pm | 3 comments | Shorter URL: http://coyot.es/x8ue

    Final Update: The actual location is described HERE. If you go to the Cottonwood Springs Road location described in this post, you will not find us there. You may well have a good time, but you won’t have a good time with US.

    {UPDATE: As soon as I

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  • URGENT: Save the Chuckwalla Valley; Tell Jerry Brown to Veto SB108
    By Chris Clarke on 2011 09 21 at 2:21:29 pm | 0 comments | Shorter URL: http://coyot.es/x1qe

    Palo Verde

    SB 108, a bill that would endanger the Chuckwalla Valley near Joshua Tree National Park by streamlining a resumption of mining, is sitting on the California Governor’s desk. Below is an urgent note from Chuckwalla Valley activist Donna Charpied

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  • Save The Date: Coyote Crossing Meetup October 14-16
    By Chris Clarke on 2011 09 10 at 8:20:43 pm | 3 comments | Shorter URL: http://coyot.es/x1ke

    Geococcyx californianus captured by Canis latrans

    Okay, I’ve been talking about doing this for some time but it’s never quite come together. I’m always talking to you about the desert, but I’m never really sharing the desert with you.

    It’s time to fix that.

    So mark your calendars, Coyote

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  • Pinto Basin
    By Chris Clarke on 2011 08 14 at 12:43:56 pm | 0 comments | Shorter URL: http://coyot.es/x5ae

    Moon

    A few preliminary updates before I start:

    Preliminary Update the First: I’m on Google Plus, and the few minutes a day I spend these days conversing online are likely to be spent there rather than in Twitter/Facebook, which have increasingly

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  • Burning of sorts metaphorical and otherwise
    By Chris Clarke on 2011 07 19 at 4:40:40 pm | 1 comment | Shorter URL: http://coyot.es/x97d

    Hidden Valley, Joshua Tree National Park

    The day before yesterday Annette and I took the Jeep up into the hills, found ourselves a shady spot in a jumble of boulders in Joshua Tree National Park. It was deliciously cool, perhaps as low as 95 degrees, and ash-throated flycatchers raised

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  • This evening
    By Chris Clarke on 2011 03 25 at 11:28:18 pm | 1 comment | Shorter URL: http://coyot.es/x49c

    Desert Center Ironwood

    Ironwood in the Chuckwalla Valley

    We didn’t find much in the way of wildflowers on our Route 62 wildlflower explorational foray. A few desert dandelions, a couple of lupines, some Chaenactis. At the north end of the Coxcombs a wash was dotted

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  • Signs
    By Chris Clarke on 2011 03 06 at 3:30:32 am | 6 comments | Shorter URL: http://coyot.es/x8Sc

    An exit sign I always loved off I-90 in Western New York: “Leroy Rochester.” When I moved to the Bay Area I soon started to wonder if “Tracy Stockton,” whose name appeared on a lot of highway signs, was a friend of Leroy’s.

    Tonight just before

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  • Interior Dept. says no to Joshua Tree mega-dump
    By Chris Clarke on 2011 03 03 at 5:41:48 pm | 0 comments | Shorter URL: http://coyot.es/x0Pc

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    Surrounded by Wilderness, the red outline depicts where 20,000 tons of Los Angeles’ garbage would be deposited daily for over 100 years. Despite claims made by the polluters, the dump will not reclaim the scars left from mining, but will actually

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  • Posting so that I can say I did
    By Chris Clarke on 2011 03 01 at 2:29:09 am | 0 comments | Shorter URL: http://coyot.es/x4Mc

    It’s 1:23 in the A of M. I’ve worked until just now on a website redesign project for a (really wonderful) enviro group, and in about five hours I’m getting up to go for a hike. But the blog, she is cajoling me. And I miss it. The last couple of

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  • Pine City
    By Chris Clarke on 2011 02 28 at 1:32:47 am | 2 comments | Shorter URL: http://coyot.es/x0Lc

    Earlier today. I hiked here a couple years ago with Larry Hogue and Florian. It hasn’t changed much. That’s good.