• The Playa Isn’t Lifeless
    By Chris Clarke on 2010 10 05 at 9:15:15 am | 0 comments | Shorter URL: http://coyot.es/x5Nb

    [A preview of a piece I wrote for the upcoming El Paisano.]

    Ivanpah Lake in the rain

    What landscape could be more sterile than a playa? Dry lake beds in desert valleys seem as devoid of life as any place on Earth. Playas are the desert boiled down to its essentials: the

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  • Found while searching for something else
    By Chris Clarke on 2009 01 26 at 12:45:58 am | 4 comments

    Looking for “Sierra Club Desert Committee,” I find this page which has a list of unrestored open-pit mines in the California desert. With this photo:

    is this accompanying text:

    Molycor[p] Mine, San Bernardino County

    Another non-gold open pit

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