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  • Coyote Crossing Meetup Update: Location Found!
    By Chris Clarke on 2011 09 24 at 6:16:41 pm | 3 comments | Shorter URL: http://coyot.es/x8ue

    Final Update: The actual location is described HERE. If you go to the Cottonwood Springs Road location described in this post, you will not find us there. You may well have a good time, but you won’t have a good time with US.

    {UPDATE: As soon as I

    … (continues)

  • Ivanpah construction halted
    By Chris Clarke on 2011 04 19 at 8:43:53 pm | 2 comments | Shorter URL: http://coyot.es/x7Dd

    Here’s a somewhat impenetrable document from the BLM that likely gave sour stomachs to those Coyote Crossing readers who work for BrightSource when they received it:

    BLM Temporary Suspension Notice for Ivanpah Solar site

    The nut grafs [emphasis

    … (continues)

  • A chance to get involved in managing the California Desert
    By Chris Clarke on 2011 03 31 at 4:09:07 pm | 2 comments | Shorter URL: http://coyot.es/x8hd

    [BLM Press Release]

    BLM Seeks Nominees for California Desert Advisory Council

    The Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) California Desert District is soliciting nominations from the public for six members of its California Desert District Advisory

    … (continues)

  • Interior Dept. says no to Joshua Tree mega-dump
    By Chris Clarke on 2011 03 03 at 5:41:48 pm | 0 comments | Shorter URL: http://coyot.es/x0Pc

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    Surrounded by Wilderness, the red outline depicts where 20,000 tons of Los Angeles’ garbage would be deposited daily for over 100 years. Despite claims made by the polluters, the dump will not reclaim the scars left from mining, but will actually

    … (continues)

  • Tell BLM to protect the Red Rock country
    By Chris Clarke on 2009 11 10 at 1:01:35 pm | 0 comments

    [As long as I’m pasting in activist alerts today, here’s an important one from the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance (SUWA).]

    Please tell BLM Director Bob Abbey to overturn the Bush administration’s anti-wilderness legacy!

    One year ago it seemed

    … (continues)

  • Protect Gold Butte
    By Chris Clarke on 2009 03 04 at 2:21:18 pm | 1 comment

    Most of you have never heard of it, but northeast of Las Vegas, in one of the least-visited parts of the continental United States, a desert treasure in Nevada needs your support.

    I visited Gold Butte for the first time in 1997. I was just

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  • 1,000-mile OHV atrocity in Nevada: more info
    By Chris Clarke on 2009 02 23 at 12:17:48 am | 1 comment

    Basin and Range Watch has the authoritative description of just how destructive the so-called “Best in the Desert Vegas to Reno Off-Highway Race.”

    Talk about your insult to injury, with that title. These yahoos wouldn’t know the best of the desert

    … (continues)

  • A thousand-mile swath of destruction?
    By Chris Clarke on 2009 02 19 at 3:54:04 pm | 1 comment

    The ORV boosters are pushing an event that could be more destructive than the infamous Barstow to Vegas Race, banned a dozen years ago.

    The Bureau of Land Management (BLM), Tonopah Field Office, will conduct an environmental review and hold two

    … (continues)

  • Tortoise alert: letters needed
    By Chris Clarke on 2009 02 10 at 4:04:40 pm | 0 comments

    From the Center for Biological Diversity:

    Last year, the Army moved more than 750 tortoises off of pristine desert lands in order to expand its Fort Irwin army base in California’s Mojave desert. Not all tortoises were monitored, but of those that

    … (continues)

  • Ken Salazar gets off to a good start
    By Chris Clarke on 2009 02 05 at 10:33:37 am | 3 comments

    From the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance:

    More than 100,000 acres of Utah wilderness will be protected from oil and gas drilling after the Department of Interior announced today that it will cancel 77 leases issued under the Bush administration.

    … (continues)

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I'm a natural history and environmental writer, an editor and photographer. I've lived in upstate New York, the SF Bay Area, Washington, DC, the Mojave Desert, and Los Angeles. My writing has appeared in publications ranging from Camas and Orion to Bay Nature, California Wild, the Boston Globe, and about thirty daily papers nationwide when I was a syndicated garden writer for the Knight-Ridder chain. No, I never got to meet the talking car.

I've traveled extensively in the Mojave, Great Basin and Sonoran deserts, as well as in the steppes and slickrock country of the Colorado Plateau.

About Coyote Crossing

This blog has existed in one form or another since 2003. At first it was called Creek Running North, after Pinole Creek, near where I lived back then. I moved in 2008 and renamed the site Coyote Crossing, but about a thousand people* still link here under the old name.

My publicist tells me I should mention that my writing here has frequently been called the best on the Internet.

* May not actually equal 1000

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