Category: Published Issues

In this issue • Climate Change Is Here: Rain Events in Death Valley National Park • A New Model For Public Lands: Bears Ears National Monument • Disadvantaged Communities In The Imperial Valley • Desert Triage: Large-Scale Solar On Public Lands • Ninety Miles From Needles Podcast • Desert Updates • Book Review: The Settler … Continue reading March 2023 – Latest Issue

In this issue • The Colorado River: Is it Simply a Water Problem? • The Desert Tortoise In California • Salton Sea: The Saga Continues • Passion For The Environment: What Keeps Activists Engaged • An Activist Responds • Life Beyond The Alarms: Finding My Place In Climate Chaos • Opportunity For Action: The California … Continue reading December 2022

In this issue • Walking Box Ranch: Past, Present And Future • Moving Toward Recovery Of The Amargosa Vole • Greenlink Transmission Line is Being Fast-Tracked • Economic Growth And Sustainability: Introducing Peter Victor, Ecological Economist • Carbon Sequestration In Our Desert Lands: Essential to California's 30X30 Initiative • Mutt Kupshuw-'Éexil Kwáavichush National Monument • … Continue reading September 2022

INTRODUCTION • From the Editor: Renewable Solar Energy • Solar Photovoltaics In The Energy Transformation LARGE SCALE SOLAR FACILITIES • The Desert Is Alive : And It's Threatened • Scraped Earth And Desert Winds: Fugitive Dust • A Costly Omission: Carbon Sequestered in Soils • Solar Energy That Spares The Land LOCALLY GENERATED ENERGY • … Continue reading August 2022 – Special Issue

Fundamental Choices • Corporate Sustainability Has Failed Us • The GDP: It's Complicated Other articles • Species On The Edge Of Extinction • Mining For Strategic Minerals • Preserving History In A Classic Landscape: Old Dutch Cleaner Mine • Desert Updates • Joshua Trees: A Tangled Past, An Uncertain Future • Crisis In The Coyote … Continue reading June 2022

Fundamental Choices • About The Day The World Stops Shopping • How the Genie Escaped the Bottle: Our love-hate relationship with plastic Other articles • Indian Pass Protected • Voices From Death Valley's Chaos:
 Remembering Bennie Troxel and Lauren Wright • Desert Home: A Photographer's Journey • Desert Updates • Botanical Riches of Conglomerate Mesa … Continue reading March 2022

Fundamental Choices • The Environmental Crisis & Fundamental Choices • The Steady State Economy • Forced Urban Density And Energy Sprawl Other articles • Bears Ears: A Primer • The Deadly Border Wall • Water Security Throughout The Colorado River • Desert Updates • Gold Exploration In Long Valley • Song Of The Desert: Ode … Continue reading December 2021

Fundamental Choices • From the Editor • Nevada's Outback: Green Energy Ground Zero • Greening of America: But is it Really "Green?" • Mo-Ja-Ve: A Poem Read at Pahrump Valley Other articles • The 30x30 Campaign in California • Dennis Casebier: Legend of California Desert • Water In The West: Failure of Colorado River • … Continue reading September 2021

In this issue: • The Dying Screwbean Mesquite • In Love With Death Valley: A Visitor From Europe • The Climate Costs of Tourism • Save The Planet and Spare The Desert! • Trump's Border Legacy and a Civics Lesson • Protecting Sage Grouse Habitat • Another Presence on the Mexican Border: Respect For Lives … Continue reading June 2021

A Third Special Issue: A Voice For Our Public Lands• From The Editor• Park Visitation, It’s a Tough Issue• A Challenging Example of Public Land Planning: Carrizo Plain National Monument• Protecting Public Lands: Can Conventional Planning Work?• Skill and Spirit: Teaching Field Geology On Public Lands Other articles• Clean Energy On Public Lands: Another Wave Is Here• Mojave Ranch Is Attracting Rare Species• Updates … Continue reading March 2021