LA Times Julie Cart Wins Well-Deserved Pulitzer for series on brush fires

Julie Cart, who has been writing on environmental policy and issues as a journalist for the Los Angeles Times, and who, with Maria La Ganga wrote the August, 2005 article on Marlene Braun’s suicide, has just won the Pulitzer Prize for journalism with a colleague, Bettina Boxall. Congrats to both of them. You can link [...]

Carrizo Plain National Monument Tourism

Carrizo Plain National Monument Tourism Carrizo Plain National Monument to Offer New Historic Ranch Tour
April 17, 2009
In addition to the Painted Rock Tours currently being offered by the Carrizo Plain National Monument each Saturday two new tours to the historic El Saucito Ranch will be offered this spring. Tour dates are April 19 and May [...]

Will a condor habitat be preserved, Mr. President? Or do you want the oil?

Will President Obama and the BLM stop oil and gas drilling on the Carrizo Plain National Monument. The following article doesn’t make clear who asked or whether the President and the BLM will respond, but the movement to stop oil and gas drilling is long overdue, according to many. Yet Ken Salazar was in California [...]

As the plan goes to a vote, the Monument shows its Glory!

There is a long article on the Carrizo Plain National Monument about the NM itself, including the flora and fauna and the dangers they face, its Resource Management Plan process, and a history of the monument. It is well worth reading the entire article. Click the link. The article also contains some beautiful photos of [...]

What do you think about the Carrizo Plain National Monument? BLM wants to know…

The Wilderness Society is sending out reminders to get in your comments in about the Carrizo Plain National Monument Resource Management Plan into the BLM, c/o Johna Hurl, Monument Manager, 3801 Pegasus Drive
Bakersfield, CA 93308, If you can’t write a letter, the Wilderness Society has a recommended form letter on their site:
http://action.wilderness.org/campaign/carrizo
Just fill in [...]

Solar Power and our National Landscape

http://www.sanluisobispo.com/news/local/story/681373.html
I have posted the comment section as well, since it is rather enlightening about public opinion.
Bob Cuddy: Solar has got to go in someone’s backyard
Bob Cuddy – bcuddy@thetribunenews.com
Comments (30) | Recommend (5)
“Hey, we don’t like it, either. You think we want to louse up the view out there? You think we spend every waking hour [...]