Coyote Crossing

The Grin Of The Peninsular Bighorn

Working on a piece for KCET about this month’s Peninsular bighorn sheep count in Anza Borrego Desert State Park, and I came across this video, which is too good not to share. It’s from Gary Katz of the Anza Borrego Foundation, and it shows a happy

Larry Hogue’s Ivanpah Video

Larry’s put together a really lovely video-slideshow on YouTube to show what we’re losing at Ivanpah. Spread it around!

And don’t forget to sign the … (continues)

Urgent petition: Tell Ken Salazar to stop Ivanpah Construction

Given that video I posted yesterday in which a BrightSource employee shreds an ancient* Mojave yucca in direct contravention of the conditions of the permit, and the fact that the BLM now expects to find a hundred more tortoises on the site than

Pine City

Earlier today. I hiked here a couple years ago with Larry Hogue and Florian. It hasn’t changed much. That’s good.

Desert Activists from 89.3 KPCC on … (continues)

Camp Ivanpah: The Video

Journalist Claes Andreasson, who has been doing good work covering desert solar for Swedish Public Radio and other outlets, came out to see us at Camp Ivanpah the week before last. He interviewed a number of participants, including yours truly, and

Desert tortoises on film

I meant to post this when it came out in March. Don’t know why I didn’t. This is a wonderful if downbeat video by the USGS on what it’s like to be a desert tortoise these days. It’s broken up into four parts for YouTube purposes.

Part 1:

Part

You know what’s weird?

...when you’re doing research on climate stuff and you see a thumbnail of a video of one of your dearest friends, and it’s the first time you’ve seen it and it’s almost a year out of date.

Not bad for lacking a teleprompter. Nice work, … (continues)

Hold music

I know it’s been quiet around here. I’ve been working, a bit for money and more on working over the next chapter of the book in my head. Writing starts tonight.

While you wait, here’s some music I like. 

Seelinnikoi, by Värttinä, who are a force

Bogs in Elk

Wait. I guess that should be “elk in bogs.”

The foreleg splash at 0:30 just kills me.

… (continues)

The Wild Ones

It’s the same old story: a raucous gang of leather-clad toughs invades a small town, wreaks havoc.

“What are you rubbing against?”
“Whattaya … (continues)

More Tortoise Video