|
Desert Wilderness
.Net |
||
| this page last updated 05/15/2003 | ||
| WEBSITE TOPICS: IMPERIAL COUNTY OHV IMPACT MONITORING Photo Report from BLM's COYOTE MOUNTAINS WILDERNESS May 5th, 2003
PANAMINT VALLEY LANDSCAPE THREATENED: Briggs Mine Exploratory Drilling Expansion Update 4/10/03- Complete Backfill Now Permanent, Should Apply to Any New Briggs Open Pits - Exploration on Hold Panamint Mountains Surprise Canyon Vehicle Access and Wild and Scenic River Environmental Study - Scope Expanded CALIFORNIA MINING RECLAMATION REFORM - COMPLETE BACKFILL OF ALL OPEN PIT GOLD MINES: Leave No Pits Behind - State Mining Board Makes Complete Backfill Regulations Permanent: See California Desert Open Pit Mine Photo Album
DESERT CONSERVATION SITES: California Wilderness Coalition Desert Tortoise Preserve Committee Center for Biological Diversity IMPORTANT DESERT AGENCY SITES:
|
Desert Wilderness .Net is a place
where current information on critical desert environmental
issues is presented for public reference. While the focus
here is on California and Nevada desert wilderness areas,
potential wilderness areas and the surrounding landscape require
preservation as well and we will include topics affecting them. Warning! This site will take strong advocacy positions and express personal opinions on desert wilderness issues. We will strive for accuracy in our facts, but will clearly be working for stronger conservation protection for these areas. Recent threats to the Panamint Valley have inspired this website. We will start there and expand to other desert wilderness areas as needed. At this point, Desert Wilderness .Net is supported by Bob Ellis. I live in Berkeley, California. I have been retired for the past four years. I am a long-time desert backpacker and wilderness visitor. For the past dozen years I have become focused upon the public land deserts of California and Nevada. I am a board member and trip leader for Desert Survivors, a California-based desert conservation group, and have visited and lead trips to many of the remote wild desert areas of the Southwest. The need to become involved in the preservation of the natural history, cultural history, and wilderness landscape of these public lands has been increasingly apparent. I'm active with Desert Survivors, with the Sierra Club's Desert Committee and California/Nevada Wilderness Committee, with the California Wilderness Coalition, and am the currently appointed environmental representative on the BLM's California Desert District Advisory Council. By networking with these and other desert conservation groups, I can pull together information from many sources.. I'm a novice with web construction, please bear with me as technical problems arise. Contact me at: bobellisds@earthlink.net Page last updated 05/15/2003 |
|