
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
From the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance:
… (continues)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.
More distressing information on Ken Salazar, Obama’s pick for Interior Secretary, from the Western Watersheds Project:
… (continues)While Colorado’s Attorney General, in 1999, Salazar threatened a lawsuit against the Department of the Interior if the Service
Eric has an gift or two he’s planning to return this week, including:
… (continues)... Ken Salazar. But then, we actually pay attention to Interior. Its one of those “Indian Things”, like siting in circles talking to rocks, or watching the revolving doors at
As of 7:57 PM Pacific Time, according to Technorati. Totals will change.
Ken Salazar, Obama’s pick for Interior Secretary, will oversee resource extraction from and/or protection of one fifth of the US’s land area. Salazar has deep ties to the
… (continues)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.
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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