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Metal Sculptures Draw Visitors To Borrego Valley

Metal Sculptures Draw Visitors To Borrego Valley Ricardo Breceda, Artist by Diana Lindsay The word is out – there is now more than desert wildflowers and the spectacular Anza-Borrego Desert State Park that is attracting visitors to Borrego Valley in Southern California. They are coming from around the United States and internationally to see the

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Secy Salazar Announces Public Lands near Grand Canyon to Be Withdrawn from New Mining Claims

WASHINGTON – January 9, 2012 – Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar announced his decision to protect the iconic Grand Canyon and its vital watershed from the potential adverse effects of additional uranium and other hardrock mining on over 1 million acres of federal land for the next 20 years. Secretary Salazar’s decision will provide adequate time for

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BLM Offers Free 2012 PDF Calendar for Download

The BLM is offering a free 2012 calendar pdf that includes images from various state offices of people using the public lands. It’s available for download here: https://www.blm.gov/pgdata/etc/medialib/blm/wo/Communications_Directorate/ public_affairs/postcards.Par.37731.File.dat/Calendar_2012.pdf The BLM is one of a handful of agencies that generates more revenue for the United States than it spends.  In 2010, the BLM’s management of

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Baja Botany and Night Sky Photography in Borrego Springs Jan 7th, 8th

Baja California: Botany in our Backyard Saturday, January 7, Jon Rebman, Ph.D. 7:30 – 9:00 pm With more than 300 succulent plant taxa present, the cacti and succulents of Baja California are a truly unique part of the peninsula’s natural history. Join Jon Rebman, Ph.D., Curator of Botany at San Diego Natural History Museum, for

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Salazar Announces Recovery of Gray Wolves in the Western Great Lakes, Removal from Threatened and Endangered Species List

States, tribes to assume management responsibility WASHINGTON — Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today announced that gray wolf populations in the Great Lakes region have recovered and no longer require the protection of the Endangered Species Act. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is publishing a final rule in the Federal Register removing wolves

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