The Sun Runner, The Journal of the Real Desert, Joshua Tree

Mojave National Preserve closures during government shutdown

Joshua Tree National Park to remain open

Some of our favorite Sun Runner covers

Thank you, and a fond farewell

Joshua Tree National Park to temporarily close Thursday

Community pulls together to support Joshua Tree National Park during shutdown

Government shutdown impacts parks

Jazz legend Nancy Wilson has died

Monument Valley Tribal Park closed due to Satanic cult YouTube stunt

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...

Welcome to The Strange Voyages of Shanghai Brown!

Avast, ye bunch o' farmers. This here be Shanghai Brown sending you greetings, from whatever port I may be sheltering in at the moment....

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...

Joshua Tree National Park Superintendent allegedly reprimanded by Interior Secretary Zinke for, uh,

Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke sulks over the pubic use of science in tweets posted by Joshua Tree National Park. We've just about had it...

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Welcome to The Sun Runner, The Journal of the Real Desert, published since January, 1995. In 2014 we began to expand our scope from the California deserts, across the Southwest with both the magazine and our television series, Southwest Stories.
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