April 4: First Time Hikers to the Sonoran Desert, Lost Dutchman SP 9 am. This hike is an introduction to hiking in the Sonoran Desert. The hike starts on Treasure Loop Trail, and converges to Jacob Crosscut Trail. The trail includes a small steeper and rockier section followed by a smooth, well maintained section giving […]
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Spend Your Saturdays in April at Oracle State Park! Oracle SP is open Saturdays only through April 28 and will be closing for the summer. Join us for guided bird walks, journal making workshop, and tour the historic Kannally Ranch House. Celebrate Earth Day with Oracle SP and hike a portion of the Arizona Trail.
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WASHINGTON – The National Park Service and the National Park Foundation, the official charity of America’s national parks, invite people everywhere to enjoy, explore, learn, share, and give back to America’s nearly 400 national parks during National Park Week 2012. Celebrating the theme, “Picture Yourself in a National Park,” National Park Week will run from
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Morongo Basin, April 22, 2012: The Morongo Basin Conservation Association invites the public to pre-register for its Second Annual Desert-Wise Landscape Tour occurring on Sunday, April 22, 2012 from 9am to 4pm. This self-guided tour will provide an opportunity to visit 20 residential landscapes and unique out-door spaces throughout the Basin and see how others
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Join the Association of Zoos and Aquariums to Get the Scoop on the Power of Poop! Next week, AZA members will come together in Palm Springs for the AZA Mid-Year Meeting, featuring AZA’s second annual Green Summit. As part of the Green Summit, Denver Zoo, winner of last year’s AZA Green Award, will be displaying
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(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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