Coyote Crossing

Barn Owls Giggle When They’re Happy

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Help promote the Mother Road NM

Promoted from the comments on this post, a request from Jim Conkle

It seems there are some very passionate people on this group so I am going to ask each of you to put your thinking caps on and add your input to this project. How, other then all

Route 66 national monument?

Some of the best news I’ve heard in a very long time, from the Riverside Press-Enterprise:

Preservationists worried about military expansion and renewable energy development in the California desert are pitching a plan to create a vast national

Protect Gold Butte

Most of you have never heard of it, but northeast of Las Vegas, in one of the least-visited parts of the continental United States, a desert treasure in Nevada needs your support.

I visited Gold Butte for the first time in 1997. I was just

At Grand Canyon, water battle rages anew

Via Lee Allison, a relatively thorough story in the Arizona Republic about the Grand Canyon, Glen Canyon Dam, and science and the environment being disregarded for considerations of political and electrical power.

Nearly a year after the federal

Desert Pavement

This wind is a tide. Plant your footsoles on the earth: the wind will scour the sand out from underneath, send you toppling backward into the holes it digs beneath your heels. It is relentless. It is patient. Sandgrain after wind-driven sandgrain

Ferocactus on Lava

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Yucca schidigera

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Eagle over Morning Star Mine Road

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In Hagen Canyon

It makes no sound. If it did the wind would mask it, keening through the sere canyon. Look the wrong way and your mouth fills with dust, with flecks of gravel. It is constant, the wind, and it raises whistles across the crenellated canyon walls.

I wish they’d stop printing books I want to read

...especially given that I have no income.

This one sounds good:

Every scientific study confirms that global warming will cause the amount of water in the Colorado River to decline, yet because we already use every drop, there is none to

Owens Valley: The Sequel

[Updated 1/26: A warm welcome to the folks from LADWP stopping by. Feel free to join the discussion.]

Las Vegas is the fastest-growing metropolitan area in the US. It’s in the middle of the Mojave, the driest desert in the US. Vegas gets the vast

No. Just… No.

Via Larry Hogue and DesertBlog:

California’s Red Rock Canyon State Park, a resource-rich and stunningly beautiful park in the El Paso Mountains of the Mojave Desert, is now threatened with becoming yet another ORV-ruined landscape. These desert

US National Park Meme

I call the Mojave National Preserve “The Park” as often as not, but I’m painfully aware that it isn’t one. The difference between “Preserve” and “Park” status? Hunting is allowed in National Preserves. Letting hunters shoot things in the Preserve

Beauty

It is raining, a little. The wind off the little storm front brings the temperature down to a positively comfortable level. It’s almost cool. Not even 80°, and the scent of wet juniper and rock hangs in the air.

How long has it been since I’d