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The SoCal Bowhunter: March 2015
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Wednesday, March 25, 2015. 2015 California Big Game Hunting Digest Now Available. It's time to start looking for change under the couch cushions and saving some coin. The 2015 California Big Game Hunting Digest. Is out with new dates, changes to tags, and updated pricing. Licenses go on sale April 15, 2015 and I hope this give you time to really look them over. Amount of free time to scout and hunt. Local or can you travel? Spousal support ( I kid, but you know it's true). Public or private land? Take so...
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Mojave Desert Blog: Nevada: Draft Plan Would Endanger Natural Treasures
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Advocating for the Preservation of Desert Wildlands. Saturday, October 18, 2014. Nevada: Draft Plan Would Endanger Natural Treasures. The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) put forward a draft resource management plan. For neighboring California; comparing the two plans highlights how bureaucratic boundaries can result in arbitrary differences in how we manage desert wildlands. This area in the foreground, east of the Wee Thump Joshua tree woodland qualify as lands with wilderness characteristics, but will ...
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Mojave Desert Blog: Desert Solar Policy to Create Key Exclusion Areas -- With a Catch
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Advocating for the Preservation of Desert Wildlands. Thursday, July 26, 2012. Desert Solar Policy to Create Key Exclusion Areas - With a Catch. From section ES.2.4.2.1 of the proposed policy:. This is good news and a marginal victory for conservationists, but there is fine print - any solar energy projects proposed for these lands before October 2011 will still be processed under the normal policy, and precedent has shown that they will likely be approved. Another class of land designation will be specif...
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Mojave Desert Blog: BrightSource Cancels Hidden Hills, But Threats Loom
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Advocating for the Preservation of Desert Wildlands. Saturday, May 30, 2015. BrightSource Cancels Hidden Hills, But Threats Loom. Power tower projects. Hidden Hills also would have pumped hundreds of millions of gallons of groundwater over its construction and operational lifetime from an already-overdrafted basin, threatening wildlife that depend on nearby natural springs. So it is indeed a relief that the project has been withdrawn. Towers May Still Loom on the Horizon. Transmission a Key Constraint.
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Mojave Desert Blog: Diversity and Inclusion on Our Public Lands
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Advocating for the Preservation of Desert Wildlands. Thursday, July 30, 2015. Diversity and Inclusion on Our Public Lands. I have to admit that I like having open space to myself. Looking out for miles and soaking my mind in a landscape dominated by nature. Not by cars, billboards, suburbs, or strip malls. Although I find solitude in the desert, I know that I am gazing upon a landscape crowded with a diverse human experience. Native American tribes would meet at the Old Woman Mountains. Are National Park...
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Mojave Desert Blog: Sizing Up Desert Energy Projects
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Advocating for the Preservation of Desert Wildlands. Sizing Up Desert Energy Projects. The desert will make anything seem small. Consequently, I think we have a hard time grasping the enormity of the destruction solar and wind companies are proposing when they chose to bulldoze intact ecosystems instead of building on already-disturbed lands or investing in distributed generation. A study by UCLA. Of Los Angeles could install up to 19,000 MW of rooftop solar. Click on image to expand). It would stretch f...
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Mojave Desert Blog: As Distributed Solar Becomes More Potent, Attacks Become More Fierce
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Advocating for the Preservation of Desert Wildlands. Sunday, April 26, 2015. As Distributed Solar Becomes More Potent, Attacks Become More Fierce. Distributed solar generation threatens to upend the centralized electric grid in a good way. This technology gives more people the opportunity to generate clean energy for themselves and to share with others without destroying wildlands. As Bill McKibben wrote in his book Eaarth. About our energy future, " our. Now it appears that energy storage. And utility-s...
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Mojave Desert Blog: Reid Gardner Coal vs. Energy Efficiency
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Advocating for the Preservation of Desert Wildlands. Friday, June 15, 2012. Reid Gardner Coal vs. Energy Efficiency. A study commissioned by the Sierra Club found it is cheaper to shut down the dirty Reid Gardner coal power plant in the year 2013 and invest in energy efficiency measures than to keep the toxic plant running. Despite the overwhelming benefits to health and economy, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) continues to consider allowing. According to the study. Make these more efficient.
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Mojave Desert Blog: How Much Is Rooftop Solar Worth?
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Advocating for the Preservation of Desert Wildlands. Sunday, January 11, 2015. How Much Is Rooftop Solar Worth? Was part of an initial step by the California Public Utilities Commission. CPUC) to determine the price utility companies pay for energy generated by rooftop solar projects, known as net-metering. A pile of Joshua Trees removed to make way for the Alta Wind Energy Center near Mojave, California. Photo by Friend of Mojave. Victor Valley College installed solar over some of its parking lots, gene...