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

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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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:
… (continues)Molycor[p] Mine, San Bernardino County
Another non-gold open pit