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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"The California Desert"”.
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Between the Event and the Ordinary: Climate Crises and the Ecologies of Everyday Life in the California Desert
The notion of an environmental crisis or catastrophe conjures connotations of rupture, emergency, and impermanence: an intermediary moment of chaos in which the normal order of things collapses in on itself only to be brought back to life—or “recovered”—after the crisis is finished. It is by …
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Utilizing Ecological Connectivity in California Desert Wilderness Preservation
<p>The Wilderness Act of 1964 gave the federal land management agencies—the National Park Service, United States Forest Service, U.S Fish and Wildlife Service, and Bureau of Land Management—the authority to identify, propose, and manage lands as wilderness. Wilderness, once approved by Congress for …
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Plant Response Parameters to General Patton's Armored Maneuvers in the Eastern Mojave Desert of California
<p>The purpose of this study, which was undertaken from September, 1977 through June, 1978 was to survey the response of perennial vegetation to General Patton's World War II armored maneuvers. This information will be used to help construct a basis for predicting recovery rates on the effects of …