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Mojave DesertArchive of news articles on external web sites. For mongabay-specific articles, please see http://www.mongabay.com/xml-list.htmlNew York TimesTessera Solar plans to plant 34000 solar dishes — each one 40 feet high and 38 feet wide — on 8230 acres of the Mojave Desert in Southern California. Army seeks to move more than 1100 desert tortoises - 06 Aug 2009 Los Angeles TimesAs it prepares to expand training operations at Ft. Irwin in the Mojave Desert, the US Army is again proposing to move more than 1100 threatened California 2009 September Environment & Climate News: Falling Temps Confound ... - 06 Aug 2009 The Heartland Institute...and protection of endangered species are lining up in opposition to solar energy projects on federal lands, particularly in the Mojave Desert. Sky Mountain Golf Course - 06 Aug 2009 Deseret News...a few months on the final three holes by the US Fish and Wildlife Service because it was disrupting the habitat of the protected Mojave desert tortoise. GA Serves America: Volunteer pilots help sheriff's department - 06 Aug 2009 SmartBriefIn 2006, an 82-year-old man drove to see his son in California's Mojave Desert. He took a wrong turn along the way and his car became stuck in a dry river Million Copy Best-Selling Horse Adventure Series Author, Sharon ... - 06 Aug 2009 PR Newswire (press release) (press release)She grew up in rural Ontario, Canada, and first went to the Mojave Desert as a young teenager. She says the Wild Horse Creek series "echoes the thrill of K Partners Hospitality opens California hotel - 06 Aug 2009 MSN MoneyThe hotel also is situated close to a number of well-known Southern California attractions, including Joshua Tree National Park and the Mojave Desert. Tapping the sun's rays - 06 Aug 2009 Lloyd's ListThe Mojave Desert in the US is already home to several solar plants, some of them built in the 1980s. But there are further plans for expansion. Buena Vista Museum Events - 06 Aug 2009 TurnTo23.comYosemite Valley, Death Valley, Mt. Whitney and the Sierra Nevada, San Francisco Bay, Mono Lake, Mojave Desert, Mt. Shasta, and Lake Tahoe…are just a few of New Grohl, Homme supergroup named - 06 Aug 2009 Digital SpyQueens Of The Stone Age singer Josh Homme spent several months earlier this year in the Mojave Desert producing tracks for the new Arctic Monkeys album Pesky burros to be removed from desert Army base - Jul 31, 2009 The Associated PressBureau of Land Management officials say as many as 100 wild burros will be rounded up in the Mojave Desert next month and put up for adoption because they Woman, 86, dies after stranded in SoCal desert - Jul 30, 2009 San Jose Mercury NewsAn 86-year-old woman who was stranded in the Mojave Desert with her husband has died. The San Bernardino County coroner's office says Guadalupe Meisenhelder Couple found dead at home in Apple Valley - Aug 3, 2009 San Jose Mercury NewsAuthorities are investigating the deaths of a couple found in their home in the Mojave Desert town of Apple Valley. San Bernardino County sheriff's Desert mine helped win WWII - Aug 3, 2009 Inland Valley Daily BulletinFoshay Pass in the Providence Mountains is about as far away from anywhere as you can get in the eastern Mojave Desert. Along a washed-out road about Army Going Solar With 500 MW of Solar Power in Mojave Desert - Jul 31, 2009 CleanTechnicaThat's why the military organization is building the Department of Defense's largest ever solar project at the Fort Irwin Base in California's Mojave Desert Wildflower reserve concerned about proposed racetrack - Jul 26, 2009 Los Angeles TimesAn Orange County man who owns 320 acres of Mojave Desert land next to the poppy fields wants to carve out a 3.6-mile course for racing, driving and testing Overland Expo 2009: Have Truck, Will Travel - Aug 4, 2009 TruckTrend MagazineNow you're on dirt roads in far-off places: crossing the two-tracks of the Mojave Desert, exploring backroads in Baja California for a week, Plan for Perseid meteor shower 2009: Prime spots and camp-outs in ... - Jul 22, 2009 Los Angeles TimesMojave Desert party: The Mojave Desert Land Trust is hosting a Perseid Meteor Shower Star Party on Aug. 15, 8 pm-midnight. At the Integratron in Landers An array of solar panels in California's Mojave Desert serves as ... - Jul 15, 2009 SwissinfoA dozen major firms have signed an agreement to build a $555 billion (SFr602 billion) solar thermal project in the Sahara desert to pump clean power back City activist criticizes Villaraigosa fundraiser sponsored by AEG - Aug 4, 2009 Los Angeles TimesBrackpool's company, which hopes to complete a water banking project in the Mojave Desert, has employed both Katz and Villaraigosa over the last decade. Drought not as bad in desert, but farmers still feeling it - Jul 19, 2009 Desert DispatchThe current drought that has gripped the rest of California hasn't had as big an impact on the Mojave Desert, but some local New Biofuel Could Lead to 100% Clean Flights - Jul 24, 2009 ReutersThe new super-biofuel, known as Jet Propellant-8 (JP-8) was used to launch a rocket above the Mojave Desert, where it approached the speed of sound and Arroyo delivers as Reds rock Citi Field - Jul 10, 2009 MLB.com...through his previous five starts, Friday's meeting with the Mets was like giving water to someone who's been wandering the Mojave Desert for weeks. 7-Eleven CEO appears in ads pushing for Army recruits - Aug 4, 2009 Dallas Morning NewsHe was stationed at Fort Hood and spent time in Germany and at Fort Irwin, in California's Mojave Desert. DePinto joined 7-Eleven in 2002 as a central US Largest Solar Panel Array in Military History to be Built on Army ... - Aug 4, 2009 Cooler PlanetFt. Irwin, California, located in the Mojave Desert, is where the US Army trains recruits in its largest and most comprehensive heavy-maneuver Combat Recreational use of sacred sites damaging to spirituality - Jul 20, 2009 Indian Country TodayIndians living in the vast Mojave Desert are increasingly vexing what they say are an onslaught of “Indiana Jones� types and lawless recreationists that are Fort Irwin moves forward on massive solar project - Aug 2, 2009 Desert DispatchThe solar project will be divided up among five sites on the sprawling military base located in the Mojave Desert, with three of the sites to be built at Red flag fire warning, wind advisory coming Thursday - Aug 5, 2009 Las Vegas SunOn top of Thursday's red flag warning, a wind advisory will probably be needed for much of the Mojave Desert as the area will experience wind gusts in Chances grow shuttle will land in Southern California - Jul 30, 2009 ScienceDude...area on Friday and Saturday, which could force the space agency to divert Endeavour to Edwards Air Force Base in the Mojave Desert at the last minute. Integratron is an out-of-this-world attraction - Aug 1, 2009 San Gabriel Valley TribuneThe event is held in conjunction with the Mojave Desert Land Trust and it always attracts a wide range of people. Within the price is an opportunity for a Environmentalists seek to unseal condor reports - Aug 5, 2009 SignalTo the southwest lies the coastal range, while the Mojave Desert borders the land to the south and east. “All these ecosystems come together right at the Veterans Fight to Keep 75-yr. old Mojave Desert Memorial cross - Jul 12, 2009 Canada Free PressBy Editor Sunday, July 12, 2009 After WWI many US soldiers moved to the Californian desert to find physical and emotional healing. Cali Resident Cautions Against Roundabout - Aug 4, 2009 Mesquite Local NewsHi from Palmdale, CA, which is just about as far as you can get from Mesquite and still be in the Mojave desert. CALTRANS recently completed a roundabout on Heat warning issued for weekend in Las Vegas - Jul 17, 2009 Las Vegas SunThe warning is in effect through 8 pm Sunday for areas below 4000 feet in elevation in the Mojave Desert. Jim Harrison, a meteorologist at the Las Vegas A friendly little casino fronts a stew of lawsuits, feuds and ... - Jul 24, 2009 Los Angeles Times...a shoulder and a bounce to her step, 47-year-old school psychologist Lisa Klenner bounded through the doors of the small casino in the Mojave Desert. Mach Green Liftoff! Another Advance for Super Clean Flying Machines - Jul 22, 2009 Fast CompanyEarlier this month, somewhere high above the Mojave Desert, a rocket, powered by a heart-healthy mix of canola and soybean oils, approached the speed of Josh Homme reveals why he worked with Arctic Monkeys - Jul 29, 2009 NME.comThe Queens Of The Stone Age frontman co-produced the Sheffield band's third album 'Humbug', even recording some parts with the band out in the Mojave Desert Solar Thermal Power May Make Sun-Powered Grid a Reality - Jul 29, 2009 San Francisco ChronicleThe idea is not new -- in fact, nine CST plants with a combined capacity of 354 megawatts have been operating in the Mojave Desert since their construction In defense of veterans' religious memorials - Jul 29, 2009 OneNewsNowThe US Supreme Court has set a date for arguments in connection with a veterans' memorial in the Mojave Desert of California. Rocketing Past NASA - Jul 18, 2009 Washington PostOn Oct. 4, 2004, a group of revolutionaries in the Mojave Desert sent a little dart-shaped rocket called SpaceShipOne beyond the Earth's Ex-Para survives a week alone on Flat Holm Island to help raise ... - Jul 29, 2009 WalesOnlineHE has trekked alone into the Mojave Desert and the jungles of Borneo and Cambodia. And now Nick Gough can add another achievement to his list – a week on Exotic Pets 101: Which exotic pets are allowed in Utah? - Jul 15, 2009 Examiner.comBanded gila monster, desert iguana, Glen Canyon chuckwalla, Western chuckwalla, desert glossy snake, Mojave desert sidewinder, Mojave rattlesnake, Slave helped shape future - Aug 3, 2009 San Bernardino SunBiddy walked during much of the journey, tending the animals while trudging between desolate water holes spread across the Mojave Desert. On June 11, 1851, The Link between Cleantech & Mining - Aug 4, 2009 SustainableBusiness.comThere could be as many as 500000 abandoned hardrock mine sites in the US, mostly in the West. by Craig Canine Interstate 15 as it crosses the Mojave Desert Nutro settles odor violations for fraction of potential fine - Jul 30, 2009 Victorville Daily PressThe Mojave Desert Air Quality Management District cited the dog food plant in April 2007, slapping Nutro with a potential $10000-per-day fine if the problem Interview: Legion Director Scott Stewart - Aug 4, 2009 ShockTillYouDrop.comThere's this lost Americana vibe and she talks about how her mother, she grew up in a trailer on the edge of the Mojave desert and her father had left the Grant to Offset Cost of Upgrading to Cleaner Vehicles - Jul 28, 2009 istockAnalyst.com (press release)The Mojave Desert Air Quality Management District is looking to distribute up to $824000 in grants to businesses and farms in the High Desert that are in Bikers blocked from California motel meeting site - Jul 17, 2009 The Associated PressThe notorious Mongols biker gang has been fenced out of a Mojave Desert motel where hundreds of motorcyclists were destined for a weekend rendezvous. Utility expresses interest in water project - Jul 16, 2009 Press-Enterprise...have expressed interest in a controversial proposal to store and draw water from ancient aquifers in the Mojave Desert, officials confirmed Thursday. [an error occurred while processing this directive] archives | news | XML / RSS feed | featured
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