From Audublog — California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger is trying to force new offshore drilling down the metaphorical throats of California’s park-lovers:
… (continues)Fund State Parks from Tranquillon Ridge Oil Revenues — A reduction of $140 million in
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.
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Via Larry Hogue and DesertBlog:
… (continues)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