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This is the sense of the desert hills, that there is room enough and time enough

You’ve heard of the campfire rule, right? “Leave it better than you found it.” At the end of this month, Burning Man will be in its twenty-second year of cultural events, individual spiritualism, artistic movements and general festival debauchery. Afterwards, you won’t even know they were there. Located in the Black Rock Desert for one [...]

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Nights Under the Stars: Anza Borrego Desert

Being from the Midwest I associate camping with forest, lakes, and prairie land. So when I went out to school in San Diego I was surprised to find that camping in the desert, specifically the Anza Borrego, is quite popular. It’s nothing revolutionary really- just something that never happened to cross my mind. I was [...]

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But Feral Pigs Are So Sweet.

  Everyone loves Spring. Flowers are blooming, making for great nature hikes and beautiful scenery.  Unfortunately, a lot of the flowers in bloom are actually invasive plant species, which have virtually extinguished native wildflowers from some areas. We’ve heard of butterfly colonies having to move farther up in altitude and latitude to live because of the warming [...]

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Why Save the Grasslands?

Aside from the fact that the Australian grasslands are part of our Earth too, a large part of plant and animal species still live in what is left of these native areas. The main cause of the loss of biodiversity in these parts is that so much of the land is being cleared out [...]

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Resilient Habitats

Global warming has already begun to take a toll on wildlife and plants around the world. It is predicted that about 25% of plant and animal species are at increased risk of extinction even if we dramatically reduce our global warming emissions. As weather warms, forests dry up and are more at-risk of insect infestations and [...]

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