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Letter From the Desert: Is Joshua Tree Over?
okay, this is long.
Chris Clarke
May 5, 2021
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Letter From the Desert: Liz Warren's Plan to Privatize Public Lands
Observations on the bipartisan enthusiasm for destroying the desert
Chris Clarke
Dec 1, 2019
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Letter From the Desert: Lying about Joshua Trees
Local politicians love Joshua trees except when the trees might get slightly in the way of making money.
Chris Clarke
Jul 13, 2020
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Letter From The Desert: Snake(s) in the house
I am reasonably certain we had two different red racer snakes in the house last week. I do not intend to boast. I am well aware, in this time of…
Chris Clarke
Jul 28, 2019
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Letter From the Desert: Please Touch the Joshua Trees
The Elmer Tree was hard hit this week. An ancient Joshua tree near the Desert Queen mine named for a Joshua Tree National Monument ranger who used to…
Chris Clarke
Dec 29, 2019
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Letter From the Desert: Anti-Racism
I signed off the last Letter From the Desert with a promise that the next issue would address some of the misrepresentations being spread by opponents…
Chris Clarke
Jun 27, 2020
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Letter From the Desert: Butterflies
I’ve been busy with a number of things, including the responses of a couple organizations and my own self to the Dome Fire last month. But I didn’t want…
Chris Clarke
Sep 5, 2020
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Letter From the Desert: Fury
this one has no photos.
Chris Clarke
May 19, 2020
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Letter From the Desert: Coxcomb Mountains
It is the end, perhaps, of my tenth summer in the desert. Daytime temperatures have dipped as far as the high seventies, and the nights are even colder…
Chris Clarke
Sep 29, 2019
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Letter From The Desert: Leap
When I moved to the Ivanpah Valley I was bleeding. My marriage was a smoking crater. My dog was 15 months in the ground. Running away was the only thing…
Chris Clarke
Aug 14, 2019
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Letter From the Desert: Senitas and Sacrifices
It’s a completely reasonable 99°F at 3:00 pm, but I’m still sweating. I am preoccupied. I am keeping company with three species of column cacti. The…
Chris Clarke
Jun 13, 2021
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Letter From the Desert: Joshua Trees are Trees
That thing you heard is wrong.
Chris Clarke
May 26, 2020
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