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Mojave National Preserve
The Mojave National Preserve is a national preserve in Barstow, CA. A National Preserve is a protected area similar to a U.S. National Park but where activities such as public hunting, trapping, and oil exploration are permitted
As I headed back for the very relative warmth of the main tent I was drawn to the life size replica of SpaceShipOne, the vehicle I watched blasting into space above Mojave in the first half of this decade. It now seemed so small, so primitive, a Mercury to SpaceShipTwo's Apollo. I could not but help imagine what private space will be flying six years from now. Creative destruction has broken free of its chains....
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The state agreed to sell 20 acres to a developer, then backed out of the deal. The land was sold again. It remains vacant and the city is still without the jobs it might generate.
For a while, it appeared that the economy around Mojave was going to get a badly needed boost.
From latimes.com
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- Klim USA Chinook, Baja, Dakar And Mojave Pants (dirtrider.com)
- Mojave journey: Part 5 (samizdata.net)
- Protecting the Mojave Preserve (faultline.org)
BARSTOW • Citing concerns over suppressing critical development, Rep. Jerry Lewis is questioning Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s newly revealed plan to control 2,500 square miles of Mojave Desert land.The legislation would create two separate national...
From vvdailypress.com
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- California's Mojave Desert may not become a solar capital after all (bloggingstocks.com)
- California senator wants to protect Mojave Desert acres (headwatersnews.org)
- Senator to propose national monument along Route 66 in Mojave (rwarn17588.wordpress.com)
From the California Desert Protection Act of 2010:
‘‘SEC. 1702. MOJAVE NATIONAL PRESERVE.
‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—The boundary of the Mojave National Preserve is adjusted to include—
‘‘(1) the 29,221 acres of Bureau of Land Management land that is surrounded by the Mojave National Preserve to the northwest, west, southwest, south, and southeast and by the Nevada State line on the northeast boundary, as depicted on the map entitled ‘Proposed...
From faultline.org
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- Hunting Threatened In Mojave National Preserve (icerocket.com)
- Always take the good camera (faultline.org)
- Mojave national preserve (search.msn.com)
Sen. Dianne Feinstein's desert-protection proposal is leaving solar energy out in the cold.
From an aesthetic perspective, vast solar arrays stretching for thousands of acres across the desert aren't pretty. But what they do for the environment and for U.S. energy independence can be downright beautiful. Which is why, though we'd be happy to see about 1...
From latimes.com
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- Editorial: A shortfall in Mojave protection bill (news.google.com)
