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Glen Canyon and the Colorado River Free Lecture at Springdale Aug 29th

Colorado River Reports, News / By newsblog

Free Lecture “Glen Canyon and the Colorado River: An Evolving Cultural Resource in the American West” on Thursday, August 29 at the Canyon Community Center in Springdale Eric Balken, Program Coordinator, Glen Canyon Institute will be presenting “Glen Canyon and the Colorado River: An Evolving Cultural Resource in the American West” on Thursday, August 29 […]

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Swimmer Missing in Lake Mohave

Colorado River Reports, News / By newsblog

BOULDER CITY, Nev. – The National Park Service is searching for a 23-year-old North Las Vegas man who was last seen in the water about a mile north of Cottonwood Cove on Lake Mohave Aug. 4. At 3:35 p.m. Aug. 4, the Lake Mead National Recreation Area Interagency Communication Center received a call from the

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Is That Rain That I Smell?

13 Comments / The Mojo on the Mojave / By Mojo on The Mojave

Waking up the other morning to the smell of rain, well actually the smell of Larrea-Tridentata was so invigorating. After my lifelong obsession with this botanical wonder I think that it is time to blog about it. Being that this bush, commonly known as the Creosote Bush is one of the most common plants of

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The Hot Dry Swampy Days of Summer

10 Comments / The Mojo on the Mojave / By Mojo on The Mojave

Why do we live in this confounded hot desert? First of all this desert, the Mojave Desert, especially in its higher elevations is not so hot compared to many other deserts. I sometimes laugh to myself when those of the Los Angeles Inland Empire area or the California Central Valley think that us folks in the

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Wildflower Dangers in the Grapevine Valley

4 Comments / Desert Tales / By Steve Reiss

by Steve Reiss (Dalmdad Landscape Photography (www.dalmdad.com and https://www.facebook.com/Dalmdad.) Sorry to have not posted here at DUSA for a while. However, this post could not be more timely. This post discusses the pitfalls of wildflower hunting and it is currently wildflower season. I have been to Anza-Borrego Desert State Park quite a number of times since I

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I Have Always Driven By And Wondered What Is Up There

12 Comments / The Mojo on the Mojave / By Mojo on The Mojave

Old Woman Springs Ranch Most people that drive up Highway 247, also known as Old Woman Springs Road, between Yucca Valley and Apple Valley have said “I Have Always Driven By And Wondered What Is Up There” as they look to the southwest and see what looks like a few trees in the distance and a

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The Hub of the Morongo Basin – Yucca Valley

4 Comments / The Mojo on the Mojave / By Mojo on The Mojave

Yucca Valley is strategically placed at the crossroads of the Hi-Desert, at the intersection of two state highways that lie at the center of this Mojave Desert Town. On Saturday, October 13 Yucca Valley saw its first new park open in 39 years, the new park is a yet to be named dog park. As I

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Area 51 May Not Be As Fine As Area 29 (two-nine)

23 Comments / The Mojo on the Mojave / By Mojo on The Mojave

The deserts of the American Southwest have long been associated with paranormal activity. Doesn’t the thought of little grey aliens, UFOs and conspiracies make you feel warm and fuzzy all over? Area 51 in Nevada may be the bull’s eye of all of this hoopla, but the 29 Palms Marine Air Ground Task Force Training

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Watch Those Saguaros: They Sure Can Hurt You!

Desert Tales / By Steve Reiss

It was interesting to recently see that the BBC (British Broadcasting Company) picked up and published on-line a story dated June 22, 2012 about a Yuma, AZ man who was crushed by a falling saguaro cactus in the Yuma, Arizona area. The story must have originated from a wire report or the local Yuma papers

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Was That The Big One or Was That a 7.3, 7.4, 7.5 or 7.6

2 Comments / The Mojo on the Mojave / By Mojo on The Mojave

20 Years Later Only The Mojave Knows As the Beatles once said “It was twenty years ago today, Sgt. Pepper taught the band to play”, but in the Mojave Desert it was twenty years ago today Mother Nature had her way. June 28th 2012 will be the 20th anniversary of the Landers earthquake. The official version of

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