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The Mojave Crux
By Chris Clarke on 2012 05 02 at 2:41:49 pm | 0 comments | Shorter URL: http://coyot.es/x8kf

I opine on the Mojave Cross settlement over at KCET. … (continues)
Sunrise Rock without the Mojave Cross
By Chris Clarke on 2010 06 14 at 5:33:57 pm | 5 comments | Shorter URL: http://coyot.es/x5C

It looks better this … (continues)
More grist for the desert solar mill
By Chris Clarke on 2010 06 02 at 10:59:57 am | 0 comments | Shorter URL: http://coyot.es/x5u

The Western Lands Project, a wonderful and effective small non-profit working to protect public lands in the western United States from encroachment and privatization, has just put out its newsletter. Aside from a nice plug for this here site, the
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Coyote Crossing cross news
By Chris Clarke on 2010 05 22 at 1:50:45 pm | 1 comment | Shorter URL: http://coyot.es/x8k

Looks like someone didn’t get the memo about the Mojave Cross being a non-sectarian, secular, Supreme-Court-says-it’s-constitutional-cause-it’s-not-religious war memorial:

Why all the fuss over a war memorial cross?

Why would those who choose
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The Cross thief speaks
By Chris Clarke on 2010 05 13 at 9:00:43 am | 9 comments

Morongo Bill and Scott Fajack have alerted me to a new development. Looks like I may have spoken unfairly as to the character of the person who took the Sunrise Rock cross from its site in the Mojave National Preserve. The Barstow Desert Dispatch
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A couple of sticks
By Chris Clarke on 2010 05 12 at 1:49:56 pm | 10 comments | Shorter URL: http://coyot.es/x0s

I’m unnerved and upset by the attention the theft of the Mojave Cross has brought to the Mojave National Preserve.

First off, the basics. I recognize the importance of memorializing those who fell almost a century ago in the First World War, and
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The Mojave Cross
By Chris Clarke on 2010 04 28 at 9:33:27 am | 4 comments | Shorter URL: http://coyot.es/x3t

The boxed-up cross on Sunrise Rock, Mojave National Preserve. Photo by Florian Boyd.

As far as I can determine from reading the decision [PDF], and contrary to what’s being widely reported today in the case of the Mojave Cross on Cima Dome, the
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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

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