Sign up to Simon Calder’s free travel email for expert advice and money-saving discounts Get Simon Calder’s Travel email Get Simon Calder’s Travel email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. The gentle folds and rolling contours gradually gave way to the beguiling Badlands on one hand, and the mountainous Black …
As the Griffith Park urban ecologist, it’s Courtney McCammon’s job to care for all living things in the 4,000-acre ecosystem, but raptors — the carnivorous birds of prey that include hawks, eagles and vultures — hold special meaning for her. “They’re invaluable indicators of ecosystem health and control prey populations, but are often overlooked in how important they are to …
Bighorn sheep graze in the hills in Sparks, Nev., in January. A set of three wildlife crossings — meant to provide safe passage for bighorn sheep and other animals — has been added to the plans for a high-speed rail line project between Las Vegas and Southern California. The California Department of Fish and Wildlife, the state Department of Transportation …
A desert bighorn ewe, left, and a bighorn lamb stand on rocks on North Soda Mountain along Zzyzx Road in Baker, Calif., in 2021. “We can’t let this solar project happen,” said Chris Clarke of the nonprofit National Parks Conservation Assn. walks along a trail in an area of the Mojave Desert that environmentalists say is threatened by proposals to …
As daylight rose over the parched and jagged Soda Mountains recently, an emaciated-looking bighorn ewe and two gaunt lambs hoofed carefully over volcanic outcroppings as they searched hungrily for increasingly rare clumps of greenery. Chris Clarke, associate director of the National Parks Conservation Assn.’s California Desert Program, at Soda Lake in the Mojave National Preserve along Zzyzx Road near Baker, …
