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Letter From the Desert: The City as Black Hole
The introductory chapter of historian Gray Brechin's must-read Imperial San Francisco is entitled “The Urban Maelstrom.” The chapter begins with a…
Mar 12
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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…
Feb 25
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Chris Clarke
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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…
Feb 10
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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…
Feb 2
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Chris Clarke
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January 2024
Letter From the Desert: Year 1
Both 2023 and our household bout of Covid are receding into the distance far too slowly. 2023 was the worse of the two events, certainly on a global…
Jan 26
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Chris Clarke
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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…
Nov 25, 2023
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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…
Nov 19, 2023
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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…
Nov 1, 2023
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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…
Oct 28, 2023
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Chris Clarke
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Letter From the Desert: Small deaths
Some personal news: I have let the wonderful folks at the National Parks Conservation Association know that I will be leaving their employ as of…
Oct 21, 2023
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Letter From the Desert: On the persistence of stupid ideas
I recently had the experience of being interviewed for an NPR-affiliated podcast on the topic of a half-serious proposal for some desert lands that I…
Oct 10, 2023
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Letter From the Desert: On the persistence of stupid ideas
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September 2023
Letter From the Desert: Processing Bad News
“How about some good news? “ That’s a refrain I’ve heard at regular intervals since approximately 1992, when I got my first gig editing an environmental…
Sep 11, 2023
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