An air tanker drops fire retardant over the York fire in the Mojave National Preserve on Saturday. “It’s a public misconception that the desert doesn’t burn, but we’re seeing right here that that’s not case,” said Sierra Willoughby, a supervisory park ranger at Mojave National Preserve. “They’re not as rare as we would hope them to be.” Just 10 days …
Something’s happened in the four years since the California Native Plant Society — CNPS — had its last statewide conference. “Colonialism caused us to see our relatives as resources for exploitation.” This struggle between Indigenous and European perspectives came up repeatedly during the conference, even during its $80-a-plate celebration dinner with a menu created by the Chia Café Collective, an …
LOADING ERROR LOADING The Mojave Desert, straddling California and Nevada, has been called the Saudi Arabia of solar power. “Renewable energy is the future, we need it, that’s obvious,” said Steven Grodsky, an assistant research ecologist at the University of California, Davis and co-author of the paper. There’s this ideology that deserts need to be developed to make them useful …
