March 2008 (3.4 MB)

The Renewable Energy Issue
Renewable Energy Transmission: Build Only What Is Necessary
“Big Solar”
Coal-fired Power Plants In Nevada
Good Morning, Sunshine: Life In A Newly Solar Electric Home
A Feeding Frenzy In The Desert: The New California Gold Rush
Current Issues
Mining Contamination In The Mojave: We Pay For Our Past
How Modern Wilderness Proposals Are Crafted
No Easy Answers: Bird Guzzlers In Wilderness
Reframing The Debate In The 21st Century: Wilderness Or Zoos?
Outings
Service Performed: A Gift For The Carrizo Plain Pronghorn

March 2007 (4.7 MB)

Desert Fires: They Aren't What They Used to Be
From The Editor: Something New
Water Wars And The California/Nevada Dilemma
Ecological Health And Livestock Grazing
Last Of The Central Valley Grasslands
The First People of Imperial Valley
Fairy Shrimp: Millions Of Years Old, But Endangered Today
Friends Of Nevada Wilderness: 22 Years Of Keeping Nevada Wild
Lower Owens River: Success After Years Of Effort
Current Issues
County Rights And Designated Wilderness
Managing The Colorado River Through Dry Times
Outings

September 2007 (1.5 MB)

The Desert History Issue
Protection of Historic & Cultural Resources
From The Editor: Desert History
Historical Resources in the California Desert
China Lake NAWS Good Steward Of Material Culture
Three Desert Museums
Desert Societies, Then And Now
Current Issues
Grazing: The Essential Range Management Tool
Tejon Ranch: A New State Or Federal Park?
Deterring ORV Use & Lessening its Impacts
Mesquite: The Desert’s Tree Of Life
Outings

December 2007 (816 K)

A Worrisome New Partnership
View From The Chair: “Why More Wilderness?”
Grazing And What It Does To Our Western Landscapes
Wilderness & Guzzlers For Desert Bighorn Sheep
Serving On The DAC
The Dunn Road: A Checkered Past
Renewable Energy From The California Deserts
Our Legacy Vs. LADWP’s Green Path North
Desert Cahuilla Prehistoric Area: Off-Roaders In The Driver’s Seat
Current Issues
Outings

June 2007 (796 K)

Fight Is On Against “Sunrise Powerlink”
From The Editor: You Are The Difference
How The BLM Makes Decisions: Speak Your Mind And Be Heard
Balancing Economic & Ecological Sustainability In Coachella Valley
Mercury Emissions From Mines Under Pressure
Little People Who Do Big Things
Current Issues
Sierra Club Works To Protect The Owyhee Canyonlands
Outings
Protecting Lands From ORV Abuse: A Call To Action

Winter 2006 (688 K)

All American Canal Brings International Litigation
Eagle Mountain Garbage Dump Suffers Major Defeat
View From The Chair: The Big And The Little
In The Moccasins Of The Artist
Tejon Ranch Application For A Permit To Harm Condors
Stop Development Of Tejon Mountain Village
Desert Citizens Fight Back Against Illegal ORV Abuse
Petition to List Greater Sage-Grouse
Planning For Northern California & Nevada Deserts
Listing Sought for Algodones Dunes Species
News Updates
Outings
Greed, Gold and Trade Agreements

December 15 2006 (804 K)

National Landscape Conservation System:
Preserving The Best Of The Rest Of The American West
National Landscape Conservation System: A BLM Employee’s Perspective
A New Future For The Whitewater Trout Farm
Saving The Forgotten Colorado River
Ft. Mojave Tribe/PG&E/DTSC Historic Settlement Reached
Current Issues
Uncertain Future For The Desert Cahuilla Prehistoric Area
Restoring The “Eternal Silence” To Grand Canyon
Dramatic Change For Ivanpah Valley
Outings

Spring 2006 (4.7 MB)

The Intersection Of NAFTA & Quechan Sacred Places
Desert Report’s New Managing Editor
A Solution To The YDP/Cienega Controversy
Surprise Canyon Motoring History
Sand Mountain Blue Needs Protection
Donna and Larry Charpied Honored
News Updates
Grasslands Of California
Pipes Canyon: All In A Day’s Work
Mojave Desert Impact Near Las Vegas
Nevada Wilderness Designated By Congress
Once They Call It “Paradise” Kiss It Good-bye
Kelso Dunes to Halloran Summit Backpack
Outings

Summer 2006 (1.6 MB)

Planned Energy Corridors May Threaten Public Lands
View From The Chair: What We Do “Out There”
How We’re Losing the West We Thought We’d Won...
...Growth and Nevada’s Groundwater
Proposed Transmission Line Threatens Anza Borrego
Reigning in ORV Abuses
News Updates
Opening of the Mojave Desert
The Impact of Energy Corridors
Still At Risk Without Mining Law Reform
New Face Of CDCA Seeks Balance
Mercury And Mines In Nevada
Outings

September 2006 (4.7 MB)

The OHV Issue
OHV: The California Off-Highway Vehicle Program At Age 35
View From The Chair: Desert Committee Meetings
From The Editor: Focus On OHV Management
OHV: Managing Wilderness Areas Next To Open Vehicle Play Areas
OHV: Dumont Sand Dunes Issues & Solutions
OHV: Restoration of Damaged Desert Lands
Current Issues
OHV: Are ATVs Dangerous For Youth?
OHV Recreation Program Strategic Planning
The Antiquities Act: 100 Years Of Preserving America’s Past
The Moapa Valley National Wildlife Refuge
Sierra Nevada Bighorn Sheep & Domestic Sheep
The Old Spanish National Historic Trail
The Amargosa Conservancy: Protecting A Desert Jewel
Outings

Fall 2005 (1.3 MB)

Mary Martin: Desert Heroine
Water Victory in Owens Valley
View From The Chair: It’s All About Volunteers
First Ten Years of the Mojave National Preserve
Hiking the Desert Trail
Desert Stewardship
Owls and the Salton Sea
The Student Conservation Association in the California Desert
Bureau of Land Management: Promoting Community Participation
Bureau of Land Management: Volunteers Crucial to Wilderness Programs
News Updates
Volunteerism At Wind Wolves Preserve
Volunteers Critical to Wilderness
Outings

Spring 2005 (644 K)

Tortoises Win Day in Court
Coal-Fired Power Plant Threatens Black Rock Desert
View from the Co-Chair: A Welcome Change
Pronghorn on the Carrizo Plain National Monument
Wildlife and Wind Energy
News Updates
Overcoming a Legacy of Desert Garbage Dumps
They Also Traveled Here
How Not to do Route Designations
EPA to Take Lead on Yerington Mine Cleanup
Anza Borrego Desert State Park Increased Protections
Safe Passage Soon for Urban Wildlife
Outings
Susan Luckie Reilly: Desert Queen

Summer 2005 (868 K)

Is The Lower Colorado River Doomed?
Why Is The Sierra Club Always Suing Everyone?
Everything Is Still Hitched to Everything Else
Restoration Of The Kelso Depot Nearly Complete
Guzzler Battles Continue
Chromium 6 Cleanup Affects Native Sacred Site
What Fate for Surprise Canyon?
The Owyhee – Beauty: Roads, River, and Sky
The Owyhee – Politics: The Owyhee/Bruneau Canyonlands
Aliens In The Desert
News Updates
Outings
Some Thoughts On Off-Road Vehicles

Winter 2005 (1 MB)

Chromium 6 Plume In Needles Is 55 Feet From Colorado River
Air Pollution In The Mono Lake Basin
View From The Chair: Working With Native Americans
Salton Sea Restoration: How Much Water Will Be Available?
Lost Borders & Little Rain
News Updates
Joshua Tree Celebrates Anniversary, Minerva Hoyt
Wind Wolves Preserve
Sustainability In The Desert Southwest
Outings
Las Vegas Looks North For Water

Spring 2004 (1.5 MB)

Air Quality at Risk in Salton Sea Water Transfers
Renewed Threat to Tunnel Under San Jacinto Mountain
View From The Chair: "Sierra Club Lies About Guzzlers"
ORV Designation Impacts Cultural Resources
To Have And To Have Not
Renewed Threat to Tunnel Under San Jacinto Mountain
News Updates
Inadequate Funding Hinders Park Mission
Grazing in Anza-Borrego Threatens Bighorns
Patenting of Mining Claims Under H.R. 2869
Outings
U S Military Opposes Development of Tejon Ranch

Winter 2004 (1.5 MB)

Carrizo Gorge Poses Risk to Peninsular Bighorn
Botanical Discoveries in the East Mojave
View From the Chair: Ignorance and Arrogance
Tehachapi: A Critical Landscape-Level Linkage
Assault on Quechan Beliefs Continues
Cartago Springs Wetland Acquired at Owens Lake
News Updates
Back to Court for the Flat-Tailed Horned Lizard
Conservation of the Colorado River Delta
Mine Expansion in Panamint Valley
Eagles Soar Over Nevada
Challenges Await at Surprise Canyon
Outings
California Must Save Salton Sea: A Commentary

Fall 2004 (816 K)

10th Anniversary of the California Desert Protection Act
California Desert Protection Act by Senator Dianne Feinstein
View From the Chair: A New Oak Tree
California Desert Protection Act Turns 10
A Sense of Amazement and Pride for BLM and its Partners
CDPA Memories
A Look Back By Ernest Quintana
10 Years Later By Ed Rothfuss
Ten Years of Threats and Accomplishments
Celebrating the Volunteers
The Littlest Lobbyists
News Updates
Test Your Desert Knowledge
Outings
Conservation Victory in Anza-Borrego Desert State Park

Summer 2004 (1.5 MB)

Desert Tortoises On The Move
View From The Chair: The Natives Are Restless
Proposed Airports Test Limits of Publicly Owned Land
The Need for Restoring the Salton Sea
Tasker Edmiston: Pioneer of Desert Protection
Common Ravens: A Growing Threat
Fish and Wildlife Considering New Sage-Grouse Listing
Juniper Flats
News Updates
The Carrizo Plain: A Return To Early California
Protecting Habitat Connectivity in the Desert
Road Bulldozed in Death Valley National Park
Repairing the Boundaries of El Paso Mountains Wilderness
Join the Sierra Club
Outings
California's Desert Wilderness Areas

Fall 2003 (604 K)

Huge Victory In Coachella Valley
Last Chance For Walker Lake
View From The Chair: It Takes a Community
Rare Plants Competing With Rare Minerals
Peninsular Bighorn Sheep at the Edge of Extinction
Amargosa River Proposal
Q and A Test Of Biological Principles
Saltcedar Invades Southwest
Vallecito Ranch
News Updates
Sheephole Valley Guzzlers
Peregrine Falcons Recovering
MWD Conservation Program
Outings

Spring 2003 (764 K)

Major Land Purchase
Federal Law Biggest Threat to Parks and Wilderness
View From The Chair: Bush's War on the Environment
Christmas Canyon Archeological Surprises
Colorado River Species Decline
Sloan Canyon NCA Dedicated
Running Man Religious Site
Ash Meadow Oasis
The Law and the River
Landscrape to Landscape
Blocking Natural Desert Flows
Walker Lake Update
News Updates
U.S. Filter Salton Sea Proposal
Outings

Summer 2003 (756 K)

Tough New Mining Regulations
Department of Defense Exemptions
View From The Chair - Knowing the Desert
The San Emigdio Blue
Kelso Depot Being Restored
Desert Soils
Waste Not, Want Not - California's Urban Water Use Dilemma
Water, A Big Issue in Nevada
Archaeological Site Stewards
Dust Settles in Owens Valley
Salton Sea, North Lake Proposal
Old Dutch Cleaner Mine
Joshua Tree's Forgotten Wilderness
Outings
Writing an Outing Report

Winter 2003 (1 MB)

Nevada Wilderness Victory
MWD Says "No" to Cadiz
View From The Chair: Linkages Vs. Fragmentation
Lichens of the Desert
Birding Tour of the Salton Sea
Birding Tour of Owens Lake
A Tortoise Who Made an Impact
Wild Stormy Desert Com Meeting
Healing Mojave's AT&T Scars
Renewable Energy at Mojave NP
Linkages for S. Coast Ecoregion
A Vital Linkage at Tejon Ranch
Liberty for American Indians
Promises to Protect the Sacred
News Updates
Testimonial for a Wild Nevada
Outings

Winter 2002 (950 KB)

White Mountains Wilderness
Walker Lake at Death's Door
View From the Chair: Turning Cartwheels
Research at Granite Mountains
Desert Tortoise Monitoring
CDPA Saves Bodie Ghost Town
The Fate of the Salton Sea
Drowning in Guzzlers
Impact of Operation Gatekeeper Monumental Introduction
Mojave Invasive Grasses
Long and Widening Road
Lucky Five Ranch Purchase
News Updates
Outings

Spring 2002 (701 KB)

Focus on the Colorado River:
An Overview
Recreated Delta Eco-systems
Miraculous Rebirth
Multispecies Plan in Jeopardy
Can We Save the Delta?
Yucca Mountain Approval
Sierra Club Awards
View From the Chair: Planting the Beans
Lower Owens River Lawsuit
SCA Rehabilitating Wilderness
Mohave Ground Squirrel
Politics and Predation
State of the Sage Grouse
Preserving Integrity of Biodiversity
Mining Restrictions Weakened
Outings

Fall 2002 (804 K)

Nevada Wilderness Proposal
California Wild Heritage Act
View From The Chair: Effective, Not Necessary Efficient
Letter From President Clinton
High Life Among the Ancients
Prized Lizard Threatened
Voices Crying Near Wilderness
Mystery of the Mojave
Save Red Rock Canyon
The Grab for Desert Waters
Volunteers Needed to Monitor
Kern Cty Zones Favor Takings
A Plan for Coachella Valley
Mason Valley Extends Anza-Borrego
Tortoise Plan Slow to Come
Habitat Designation Reconsider
Debt of Mining Carlin Trend
News Updates
Outings

Summer 2002 (1.1 MB)

Focus on the Salton Sea:
Blowing Dust in the Wind
Water Transfer Threatens
View From the Chair: Flocks to the Horizon
Controlling Salinity
Water Transfer Endangers
Water Conservation Measures
Birds of the Salton Sea
and Bill Threatens Joshua Tree Wilderness
Running Water on Owens Lake
Birds of-Owens Lake
Coalition Vows to Block New City
Panamint Valley Outings
Mojave Endemics
Sonoran Desploblado
The Basis of Sound Science
Achilles' Heel of Yucca Mountain
Kitty Litter Mine Thwarted
The Algodones No One Knew

Winter 2001 (872 KB)

Nevada Black Rock Desert
Wilderness Bill Passes
Four Legal Victories for Imperial County
View from the Chair: A Year of Changes
Cadiz Water Grab
Wagons, Ho!
Sunflower Springs Project
Preserve & Protect NV Land
The Salton Sea
Desert Survivors Plan Trail
Kelso Depot Restoration
Shattering the Silence
Community-Based Planning
Joshua Tree Re-Route Saga
Nonnative Grass Invasions

Spring 2001 (424 KB)

Carrizo Plain National Monument
Suing the BLM to Enforce the Endangered Species Act
View from the Chair: Let's Switch Packs
Restoring Sanity Back to Nitre
LADWP/LORP Agreement
Gold Quarry Mine Expansion
Colorado River Delta
Thanksgiving in Anza Borrego
Tamarisk Invasion
Building a Radioactive Highway
BLM Turns Down Imperial Mine
Claim Markers Avian Traps
Slowing Waste Generation
Eagle Mountain Dump Part I
Outings

Summer 2001 (526 KB)

Maris Valkass 1936-2001
Proposed Fort Irwin Expansion
View From the Chair: When God Lives in Omaha
Conservation Easement for Owens Valley
Exploring The Mojave
Nevada Wilderness Campaign
Rock Lady and the Motherlode
Mojave Ranch Buyout
Harriet Allen: Desert Queen
Lane Mountain Milkvetch
Line Distancing Desert Tortoise
Eagle Mountain Dump Part II
Glossary
Resources of Fort Irwin
Passing the Torch
Invasive Sahara Mustard
US Gypsum Forced to Comply

Fall 2001 (513 KB)

Briggs Mine Plans Expansion
Privatization of Water a Mistake
View From the Chair: Connectivity
Thoughts on the Amargosa
Smokey Brings Fuel to the Fire
Leapfrog Development
Peach Springs Tuff
Long-ears Threaten Refuge
Home on the Peninsular Range
Springs in Mojave Preserve
Cadiz Water Grab
Desert Tortoise News
Mim Romero: Desert Queen
Outings

Fall 2000 (902 KB)

Victory for Palm Canyon
Owens Lake: Bird Paradise
Mary Ann Henry
SEEP
Venomous Animals Class
BLM and USBP Unlikely Partners
Eagle Mt Landfill
Border Patrol Impacts
Bighorn Wins Protection
Remembering Frank Wheat
Black Canyon, Martinez Canyon
Tortoise Die-off at Goffs
Joshua Tree Jet Re-Route
Eastern NV Restoration Initiative

Summer 2000 (804 KB)

Victory for the Desert
Cactus Snatchers Caught
View from the Chair: Goodbye to Davy
Report on the Lower Amargosa
Mother of Wilderness
News Updates
Making Routes Disappear
Mine Reclamation at JTNP
Timbisha Homeland Update
Navy Signs On For Joshua Tree FONZ
The Desert Trail in California
Nevada Mining
Outings
Smoke Creek Wilderness Trip
North Death Valley Trip