Results for keyword: Deserts
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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 -
Mexico launches a green offensive
The International Sonoran Desert Alliance hopes, with the cooperation of the U.S. and Mexican governments, to ease some of the problems - many environmental - that tightened border security is causing.
by Susan Zakin, Mar 31, 1997 -
Lawns and pools close in on desert lab
The University of Arizona's Desert Laboratory, a unique desert biological field station, faces the pressure of the city of Tucson's growth and the uncertain future of the land.
by Peter Friederici, Mar 03, 1997 -
While the vultures circle
The writer describes a summer as a "human mule" surveying the Arizona desert, where only the vultures move in the heat.
by Gary Every, Aug 19, 1996 -
Naked and marvelous
Kenneth Perry's topographic map of "The Colorado Plateau and its Drainage" is like seeing the West from heaven.
by C. L. Rawlins, Mar 18, 1996 -
Earthtones
Essayist Ann Ronald and photographer Stephen Trimble celebrate Nevada in the book "Earthtones: A Nevada Album."
by Jon Christensen, Feb 05, 1996 -
Defending the desert
"Defending the Desert: Conserving Biodiversity on BLM Lands in the Southwest" by the Environmental Defense Fund is reviewed.
by Staff, Nov 13, 1995 -
Save the Sonoran
Group Sonoran North fights development north of Phoenix, Ariz.
by Staff, Aug 21, 1995 -
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 -
The Great Basin: America's wasteland seeks a new
The Great Basin has often been seen as a wasteland, but now new visions are defining the region.
by Jon Christensen, Apr 03, 1995
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