Desert News
(THOUSAND OAKS, CA) In honor of Women’s History Month, the National Park Service is sponsoring a free lecture by Moorpark College Professor Susan Kinkella on the fascinating life of a 19th century Native American woman who lived near present-day Calabasas. The 2:00 p.m. program on Saturday, March 24 will provide highlights from the life of […]
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Zion National Park has changed its wilderness permit system to allow visitors to reserve last minute slot canyon day use permits via an online reservation system. This new system will eliminate the need for visitors to wait in line at the visitor center for permits. Reservations for popular day trips such as the Subway (Left
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The Alabama Hills Stewardship Group will host the first “Alabama Hills Day” on Saturday, April 14, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Lone Pine Museum of Film History. “The purpose of this new annual event is to celebrate this incredibly scenic landscape and educate the public about the wide variety of groups that
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The Arizona Wildfire & Incident Management Academy and Tim’s Buick/GMC of Prescott are teaming up to raffle a pickup truck during this year’s academy, March 10-16 at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Prescott, Arizona. Tim’s Buick generously donated a 2010 GMC Sierra pickup for the raffle. Tickets will be available to purchase at the academy and
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MENLO PARK, Calif. — The El Mayor-Cucapah earthquake in northern Baja California, Mexico on April 4, 2010 triggered surface movement on several Southern California faults. Detailed mapping of these small movements by the U.S. Geological Survey, California Geological Survey, and other institutions, revealed previously unknown faults in the greater Salton Sea area, and confirmed whether
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On February 22, 2012, between 6:30 and 7:30 a.m., a large slab of rock broke loose from the cliff face above the park’s road, about three miles from the park entrance. As the slab fell, it broke into large boulders that scattered over a 150-foot wide path. One 20-ton boulder landed on the road and
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Wolf OR7 Returns to Oregon After drawing much public attention for his historic trek into California, the gray wolf designated as OR7 has turned north and crossed back into Oregon. Originally part of a wolfpack in northeastern Oregon, OR7 wandered more than 1,062 miles in Oregon in September through December of last year before crossing
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Death Valley NP is a lot like Mars. That’s why scientists are partnering with the park to celebrate a three-day, free public festival titled Mars and the Mojave: Exploring extremes on Earth and beyond, scheduled for March 9-11, 2012 The barren landscape of Death Valley, almost devoid of vegetation, evokes the red planet’s surface.The dry,
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A mountain lion attack occurred on February 5th in the Chisos Basin area of Big Bend National Park. A six-year-old boy received non-life-threatening injuries during the attack. Once the report was received, park rangers closed the high Chisos Mountain trails into the area at approximately 8:00 a.m., February 6th, and began patrols for the animal.
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New Visitor Center Opens at Death Valley NP Death Valley National Park opened the doors to a remodeled Visitor Center on Thursday, February 16th, 2012. The original Visitor Center was built in 1960 as part of the Mission 66 project — a 10 year effort to upgrade National Park Service facilities by the agency’s 50th
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