Amboy Crater claims more lives: One dead, one missing
A cross-country road trip has gone terribly wrong for a couple from Virginia. Susan, 65, and William Schmeirer, 64, left their home in...
National Park fees may not increase
Dramatic seasonal park entrance fee increases proposed by the National Park Service in 2017 may not take effect after all. Though the...
Make sure your voice is heard on DRECP, industrial scale power projects, and other desert issues
Desert residents have a limited time to ensure their concerns are heard by the federal government on an executive order signed by...
BLM Opens Millions of Acres of California Deserts to Mining, Energy Development
If there was any doubt about public lands policy under President Trump's administration being based around natural resource extraction...
Joshua Tree National Park left wide open and abandoned - by order of the DOI - during government shu
Joshua Tree National Park gates and entry restroom were left wide open - with no National Park Service staff working - as the shutdown of...
National parks quiet as government shuts down
The pointless federal government shutdown of 2013 may be returning to a national park near you. While there is the smallest chance that...
Linda Sibio Strikes Again with The Insanity Principle
Photo by Sarah Lyon, from Linda Carmella Sibio's "Origins" performance at "The Palm Talks" at HDTS 2017 I've known Linda Carmella Sibio...
This man wants to end our national monuments
Congressman Rob Bishop, speaking at the Western Republican Leadership Conference in Las Vegas. Photo by Gage SKidmore. "Do not be...
Fake News hits the hi-desert!
Author and awesome squash player, Ivy Pochoda, seen contemplating the wolves of Wonder Valley from the relative safety of the 2010...
Bipartisan poll suggests the American public is much less likely to visit our national parks if high
Photo Credit: National Park Service; OAK helps launch Every Kid in a Park in Washington, D.C. The Outdoors Alliance for Kids, a national...