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  • 1998 Earle A. Chiles Award

    The High Desert Museum seeks nominations for its 1998 Earle A. Chiles Award to people who have enriched cultural and natural wealth of the high desert.

    by Staff, Jun 08, 1998

  • A love letter to a sewage lagoon

    Andrea Jones recalls falling in love with the desert by visiting Lake Powell as a child

    by Andrea M. Jones, Dec 01, 2003

  • A thin, dry border between heaven and hell

    In his anthology, God’s Country or Devil’s Playground, editor Barney Nelson gathers together an eclectic mix of the best nature writing from the Big Bend of Texas

    by Jessica Toubman, Sep 13, 2004

  • A very brief conversation with a Jet Fighter

    A long solitary hike through an empty, pristine desert is interrupted by a close encounter with an F-16 fighter plane

    by Craig Childs, May 01, 2006

  • Alien grasses are finding new homes in Arizona

    The writer speaks up for alien grasses that spread fire through the desert

    by Matt Chew, Sep 12, 2005

  • At home in the wasteland

    The Great Basin is changing from within and becoming a more environmentally enlightened place.

    by Jon Christensen, Apr 03, 1995

  • At last, a California desert bill

    California Desert Protection Act nears approval.

    by Staff, May 16, 1994

  • Barren, wild and worthless? Anything but

    Barren, Wild and Worthless: Living in the Chihuahuan Desert, Susan Tweit’s New Mexico memoir, is back in print

    by Renee Guillory, Jun 09, 2003

  • Bonfire of the Superweeds

    In Arizona’s Sonoran Desert, good intentions are responsible for the introduction of exotic buffelgrass – but all the good intentions in the world may not be enough to save the desert now that this invasive and fire-prone plant is spreading

    by Michelle Nijhuis, Aug 20, 2007

  • County unveils pioneering protection plan

    Tucson's innovative Sonoran Desert Conservation Plan will protect hundreds of thousands of acres of virgin desert while still allowing newcomers to build on less environmentally sensitive land.

    by Tony Davis, May 07, 2001
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