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Letter From the Desert: The Desert Needs You
Desert news media are drying up. The Desert Advocacy Media Network needs your help spreading the word.
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Chris Clarke
Letter from the Desert: Iguana glut
I walked the dogs yesterday, heading with each of them in turn around the block in the neighborhood as I usually do when I have a few minutes in…
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Chris Clarke

March 2024

February 2024

Letter From the Desert: Nipton Diary #7
Hello, friends. Today’s offering is a piece I wrote in mid-2008 intending to include it in a book on Joshua trees, which I’m planning to get wrapped up…
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Chris Clarke
Letter From the Desert: Big Bend
I will say this about Texas: it has at least one national park with four Yucca species, a boast California cannot share. There are four California…
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Chris Clarke
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Letter From the Desert: On The Border
Long drives give one the opportunity to hear the same news over and over again repeated every hour or so, and so I entered Arizona the other day replete…
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Chris Clarke
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January 2024

November 2023

Letter From the Desert: Help us save the desert
Hello, friends and subscribers. I am departing from the usual political rants and poetry and dogs content of this here email newsletter for the moment…
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Chris Clarke
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Letter From the Desert: Exoskeletons
They’re comforting, these pieces of armor we craft from the things we spend our days doing. Lawyer, designer, writer, waiter, runner, dog trainer…
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Chris Clarke
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Letter From the Desert: Still processing those fires
The desert empties out. This summer’s skies Have been devoid of nighthawks’ evening flash. Grasses from elsewhere, rampant, colonize The empty space…
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Chris Clarke
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October 2023

Letter From the Desert: the 2005 Hackberry Fire
I wrote this in Summer 2005 as I watched helplessly from my perch in the Bay Area while the Hackberry Fire burned more than 70,000 acres of the Mojave…
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Chris Clarke
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