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Coast to Coast : A Vanishing Tortoise in the Mojave Desert

Coast to Coast” is a summer blog series highlighting some of America’s most imperiled wildlife. By using the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s new state-by-state endangered species map, we will tell...

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Road to Recovery: Northern Aplomado Falcon

Defenders of Wildlife has set itself the goal of moving more than 100 endangered species up the federal recovery ladder over the next decade. Our “Road to Recovery” series will highlight several of...

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Road to Recovery: Sonoran Pronghorn

Defenders of Wildlife has set itself the goal of moving more than 100 endangered species up the federal recovery ladder over the next decade. Our “Road to Recovery” series will highlight several of...

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Powering Up at the Salton Sea?

Stephanie Dashiell, California Desert Associate The excessive heat warnings are not the only reason the Salton Sea is appearing in the news this summer. The Salton Sea is the 525-square-mile saline...

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It’s all adding up in Ivanpah

Multiple solar energy projects can be too much for one region to handle On the blistering hot, sun-drenched surface, deserts seem like an ideal place for solar energy development. The climate in such...

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Lost and Found in the Desert

Exploring a Renewable Energy Development Area in Arizona I stepped out of my small white rental car into the chattery quiet of the October desert. The sun blazed overhead. A lizard skittered across the...

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The DRECP – What Is It?

California’s Desert Renewable Energy Conservation Plan (DRECP) is here! The draft environmental documents, totaling more than 8,000 pages, were posted online last Tuesday after an announcement event in...

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Remember the Owens Valley

Part One: Journey through the California Desert By Krista Schlyer The following is the first in a series of four blogs from Defenders’ California Desert Recorder, Krista Schlyer. Stay tuned for updates...

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Under the Desert Sun

Part Two: Journey through the California Desert Krista Schlyer The following is the second in a series of four blogs from Defenders’ California Desert Recorder, Krista Schlyer (you can read her first...

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Defending a Desert Icon

Part Three: Journey through the California Desert Krista Schyler The following is the third post in a series of four blogs from Defenders’ California Desert Recorder, Krista Schlyer (you can read her...

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Cutting up the California Desert

Heading east on Interstate 10 toward Blythe, California, the desert appears just as quiet, still and timeless as ever. The sweeping vistas, remote mountain ranges and wide open skies appear as they...

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Connecting Mountain Islands in the Desert

Saving bighorn sheep in the Soda Mountains From the perspective of a bighorn sheep, mountain ranges in the Mojave Desert are island oases of habitat amid seas of lowland desert. The seas are exposed,...

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An Unprecedented Attack

House of Representatives uses Interior Spending Bill to Wage War on the ESA Last week was a doozy. On Capitol Hill, we saw an unprecedented attack on a wide range of our nation’s wildlife and wild...

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Conservation in the Mojave Desert is monumentally important

One of the regions that I have become more and more familiar with and in awe of through my work at Defenders is the California desert. This area of our country is often viewed by those who don’t live...

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Protect the California Desert

Citizens Call on the President to Protect Fragile Habitat for Wildlife in National Monuments It’s an exciting time to live and work on conservation issues in the Mojave Desert. Recently, California...

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A Step Forward for Desert Wildlife

BLM takes one big step towards sustainable renewable energy planning, but can do more to protect wildlife One of the rarest sightings in the California desert is not what you think it might be. It is...

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