Arches and Canyonlands National Parks are closed. It is unlawful to enter National Park lands to recreate or sightsee until further notice. Alternatives for Moab Utah visitors during the National Park and Monument Shut Down: Fisher Towers Recreation area is open. Dead Horse Point is a State Park. It is open. It is on Hwy 313. Hwy 313 […]
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NPS’s website states, “Because of the federal government shutdown, all national parks are closed and National Park Service webpages are not operating. For more information, go to www.doi.gov.” doi.gov is down. Here is the text of a letter we received in our email this morning from the National Parks Conservation Assn.’s director of budgets, John Garder:
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Last weekend in September. Calico Ghost town awakens the imagination. It’s part fun and part history and Calico Days is the perfect time to make a visit to the old mining town. The two-day event the weekend of September 28 & 29 – 2013 will include a wide number of activities and shows
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Cadiz Inc. [NASDAQ:CDZI] (“Cadiz”, the “Company”) is pleased to announce that it has entered into a new trackage rights agreement (“Agreement”) with the Arizona & California Railroad Company (“ARZC”) that will facilitate the development of regularly scheduled steam train excursions through the celebrated Mojave Desert between Cadiz, California and Parker, Arizona, which would be one
Statement by Seth Shteir, California Desert Senior Representative, National Parks Conservation Association Background: The latest in a series of attempts by Cadiz Inc. to avoid federal review of its proposed water mining project was put forward this week, in the form of the “Cadiz Southeastern Railway”. This new proposal is the latest attempt by the
by Steve Reiss (Dalmdad Landscape Photography – www.dalmdad.com and https://www.facebook.com/Dalmdad.) What is the probability that you will ever meet the same desert tortoise twice? I guess the probability is pretty good if you happen to be visiting with the desert tortoises of the Desert Tortoise Natural Area (DTNA) in California City, CA. It was in April 2011, in
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Grab the family and head on out to California’s Heart of the Desert, Borrego Springs, for the 48th Annual Borrego Days Desert Festival. Friends and family will gather for this three day local tradition to enjoy a little sliver of Americana in our own backyard. This FREE festival takes place on Friday, October 25,
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My heroes have always been cowboys Well, I am a cowboy junkie. Any opportunity to mix and mingle with those gents gets me on the road. — not that I need much excuse to go traveling. And mix and mingle I will at Randsburg’s 15th Annual Old West Days, September 17th. A marvelous day
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Available foods will bring bears to lower elevations this fall. Unlike the last two years which produced abundant crops of whitebark pine seeds, this year few cones were produced by the high elevation trees. Due to the low yield whitebark pine crop, we are expecting an increase in human-bear encounters in the backcountry this fall
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September 11, 2013 – The Zion-Mt. Carmel Highway on the east side of Zion National Park, between Canyon Junction and the East Entrance, is closed to vehicles effective immediately. The area sustained high precipitation and several sections flash flooded including a ravine approximately a mile west of the small tunnel, where flood waters blocked a
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