Category: Published Issues

In This Issue • A Line Through the Wild: Golden Pacific Powerlink • A Broken Landscape: Border Wall Meets a Sacred Peak • Recalled to Life: Restoring the San Joaquin Desert • Lithium and Uranium Mining in the McDermitt Caldera • Bonanza Peak Solar Project Proposed • Sand Lizards of the Mojave Desert • The … Continue reading August 2026 – Latest Issue

In This Issue • A New Beginning at the Salton Sea • Cadiz Water Updates • Let Me Tell You A Story Of A River: The Colorado • Desert Icon: Edmund C Jaeger and his Curious Palaver • Castle Mountains Gold Mine Phase 2 • Greenlink West Transmission Is Under Construction • NEPA in Flux … Continue reading January 2026

In This Issue • Saving Walker Lake • From the Editor • The Joshua Tree Conservation Coalition • Burrowing Owls: One Step Closer to State Protections • What's The Real Problem? • West Mojave Route Designation Project • A Proposed Area of Critical Environmental Concern • Ripples in the Groundwater: A Tribute to Bill Christian … Continue reading January 2025

In This Issue • Mono Lake Still Needs Saving • Amazing Critters: Scorpions • Biocrusts Of The Mojave Desert • Wild And Free-Roaming Horses And Burros • Book Review: Death Valley Rocks by Marla Miller • Politics, Money, Corporations, And The Environment • Desert Updates • Wilderness Anniversaries: A Year to Celebrate • If Wishes … Continue reading October 2024

In This Issue • Preserving our Ancestral Lands • Amargosa Valley Mineral Withdrawal • Conglomerate Mesa and the Southern Owens Valley • At our Southern Border
Transmission Lines on our Public Lands • Fire Utilization in the California Desert • Hidden Danger: The Unexpected in the Familiar • Lessons from the China Ranch Fire Download PDF … Continue reading July 2024

In This Issue • Layers of time: A walk in Death Valley • About the Desert Report • Still saving Mono Lake: Thirty years and no resolution • Envisioning community benefits agreements • NEPA and CEQA: When the twain meet • Polaris exploration project: Is gold worth the cost? • Solar and wind energy plans … Continue reading April 2024

In This Issue • Bahsahwahbee • Hurricane Hilary In The Desert • The Desert Blooms • Does Solar In The Desert Add Up? • The Lithium Gold Rush • Desert Bighorn Sheep Populations • Illegal Grazing • An Exciting New National Monument Proposal: Chuckwalla National Monument Download PDF (1.2 MB)

In This Issue • Drive Like A Tortoise • A Crisis At Ash Meadows • Ice Age Fossils In The Nevada Desert • Harvesting Desert Groundwater • Lithium Mining In The Desert • Large Scale Solar On Public Lands • A New Conservation Rule For BLM Administered Lands • Whose Water Is It? Water Bottler's … Continue reading September 2023

In This Issue • The Resolution Copper Mine • Revised General Plan For Red Rock Canyon State Park • The Lithium Industry In Imperial County • Permanently Protecting An 'Island In The Sky' • Groundwater & CA Sustainable Groundwater Management Act • Cooking With Sunshine • This Water Has Magic: A Poem By Christiana Saldana … Continue reading June 2023 – Latest

In This Issue • A Bigger Picture • The Anthropocene: A Changed Planet • Self-Devouring Serpents In The Anthropocene • Wildland Fires In The Anthropocene • Overshoot & The Incredible Shrinking Planet • A Planet Out Of Balance: Reproductive Autonomy • Corporations And The Environment: Joel Bakan • Modest Proposals For An Ecological Economy • … Continue reading May 2023 – Special Issue