OR-7’s family shows us there’s still something wild about California.
Items by Matt Weiser
Remembering explorers past of this California water source.
The West's reservoirs are waging a constant battle against rising levels of sediment.
Since Richard Pombo took over the House Resources
Committee in 2003, the number of scandals around him has steadily
grown
California Republican Rep. Richard Pombo made his mark
blasting the Endangered Species Act, but now, he says, he’s
learning to compromise on environmental issues
Fish populations are plunging in the California Delta even
as the CalFed Bay-Delta Authority considers exporting yet more
water
The writer wants subsidized predators, also called pets,
kept on a leash
In Fawnskin, Calif., an activist and two Forest Service
employees helped stop a condo development. Now they're getting sued
under a federal racketeering act.
The Forest Service’s new management plan for
California’s Giant Sequoia National Monument encourages
logging
Fallowing land in California's Imperial Valley may
temporarily put farmworkers out of work, but in the long run the
extra money could help diversify the local economy and produce more
skilled and permanent jobs.
The planned Joshua Hills development in Southern
California could hurt neighboring Joshua Tree National Park and the
Coacella Valley Preserve, the only remaining home of the endangered
fringe-toed lizard.
A cross placed on Mojave National Preserve by Veterans of
Foreign Wars as a memorial is the center of controversy between the
National Park Service and the American Civil Liberties Union, which
claims it violates the separation of church and state.
Shielded in anonymity, the "King Clone," a creosote bush
identified as the "oldest living thing on Earth," can be found on a
dirt road south of Barstow, Calif., where it continues to keep a
low profile about the many benefits of its properties.
The Quechan tribe is fighting the Bush administration's
revival of a controversial mine in California's southern Mojave
Desert, where Glamis Gold Ltd. plans to mine gold on a site sacred
to the tribe.
For the third time, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has
refused to grant the Bonneville cutthroat trout a place on the
endangered species list.
In California's Mojave Desert, local ranchers are angry at
the BLM's decision to set aside land in eight grazing allotments,
closing them to cattle part of the year to protect the threatened
desert tortoise.
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