4,200 Joshua trees are scheduled to be removed are replaced by solar panels for the Aratina Solar Project near Boron, CA in June of this year. They will not be salvaged but funds based on the size of the tree will be placed in a mitigation bank.
Basin & Range Watch
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- Lake Manly, Death Valley has about 595 to go to reach historic levels, but still pretty big. Biggest we have seen in 33 years.
- We are happy that President Biden established the Avi Kwa Ame National Monument, Nevada today with no apparent carve out for wind or solar development. It is over 500,000 acres. Also happy that our work stopping 2 wind projects on this land helped make this monument possible.
- Soon to be bulldozed: Aratina Solar, CA 2,400 acres - 4,200 Joshua trees Oberon Solar, CA, 2,700 acres - ancient desert ironwoods destroyed Gemini Solar, NV, 7,100 acres - over 1,000 desert tortoises Yellow Pine Solar, Nevada, 3,000 acres - over 90,000 Mojave yuccas
- These are particularly painful before/after pics of the Oberon Solar Project near Joshua Tree National Park, CA. Ironwood trees over 1,000 years old were blocking the sun, so they got rid of TREES IN THE DESERT! Second photo by Bloomberg Law
- Super bloom of desert gold (Geraea canescens) at Lake Hill, Panamint Valley, Death Valley National Park
- Lake created by recent rain in Death Valley National Park, California
- Sunset and snow on the Sheep Range, Mojave Desert, Nevada
- Johnson’s devil claw cactus (Sclerocactus johnsonii) blooming in dolomite hills of eastern Inyo County #CaliforniaDesert #rareplant
- It is the ultimate oxymoron to believe that ecocide is the only way to save the environment.Opening up 22 millions acres of public lands in the American West to possible solar energy development may sound scary. But it’s a hell of a lot better than climate change. My column in today’s @latimes: latimes.com/environment/ne…
- Green energy started mowing down desert Joshua trees about 13 years ago. This the Alta East Wind Project in 2010.
