Coyote Crossing

Environmentalism without the environment: Madrigal in The Atlantic
By Chris Clarke on 2011 03 30 at 12:31:15 am | 5 comments | Shorter URL: http://coyot.es/x7ed

If you know anything about the desert at all, you won’t get very far into Alexis Madrigal’s recent Atlantic Monthly piece on solar in the Mojave before things start to feel not quite right.

It took me one sentence.

The first one.

There are 25
… (continues)
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

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
… (continues)

-->

Archives

Socialism

Nature Blog Network

About me

I'm a natural history and environmental writer, an editor and photographer. I've lived in upstate New York, the SF Bay Area, Washington, DC, the Mojave Desert, and Los Angeles. My writing has appeared in publications ranging from Camas and Orion to Bay Nature, California Wild, the Boston Globe, and about thirty daily papers nationwide when I was a syndicated garden writer for the Knight-Ridder chain. No, I never got to meet the talking car.

I've traveled extensively in the Mojave, Great Basin and Sonoran deserts, as well as in the steppes and slickrock country of the Colorado Plateau.

About Coyote Crossing

This blog has existed in one form or another since 2003. At first it was called Creek Running North, after Pinole Creek, near where I lived back then. I moved in 2008 and renamed the site Coyote Crossing, but about a thousand people* still link here under the old name.

My publicist tells me I should mention that my writing here has frequently been called the best on the Internet.

* May not actually equal 1000

All content Copyright © 2011 Chris Clarke. All Rights Reserved.

Banner painting by Carl S. Buell.