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by Terry Weiner

Dont you cherish those occasions when nature or humans simply fill your heart with delight, suffusing you with the feeling that you are on the right path and indeed in the right place at the right time? I often experience feeling complete and at peace when I am outdoors quietly observing a natural event. Yesterday after a brief rain, termites nesting in the dead Mojave yucca stump near my door took wing, flying up and up into the cool morning sun, filling the air with their diaphanous-winged flut-tering. Then, seemingly out of nowhere, several warblers and vireos appeared and began to dip and swoop and dive and pick off the termites, one by one. There was loud rustling in the liquidambar tree as more and more birds arrived to participate in the feast. Then the resident black phoebe arrived on scene. He is very territorial and did his best to chase away the smaller birds. He could have joined in the feast but he distracted himself by trying to control hunting in what he obviously considers his domain. I sat quietly observing these

Invest in the Desert for the New YearDear DPC Members and Friends-

There are so many things to be grateful for at this time of year as we celebrate the holidays, hope for the upcoming New Year and the return of the light with the Winter Solstice. We are grateful for time spent with friends, family and loved ones. We are grateful for beauty of the deserts and for the support of our members.

Ive had the privilege of serving as DPCs Board president for over five years now, and have held all the other DPC executive board positions over the past twenty-five years. Here are a few reasons why the Desert Protective Council is my favorite non-profit organization:

While other organizations chase dollars to create short-lived programs on the latest trendy topic, DPC stays focused on its mission. With its sharp focus, DPC operates on a very modest budget, supporting one full-time staff person and a part-time newsletter editor/ social media consultant.

DPC is effective, having accomplished many desert preservation efforts over its 60 years or existence. Our track record speaks for itself. DPC uncompromisingly sticks to its principles.I was very proud when DPC received

the 2014 Minerva Hoyt Desert Conserva-tion Award. The Joshua Tree National Park Foundation bestows this award annually to individuals or organizations that have made notable achievements in the areas of leadership, protection, preservation, re-search, education and stewardship leading to a significant and lasting contribution on behalf of the deserts of California.

The expanding U.S. population with its desire for more sources of energy and raw materials and its need for escape from the din and brightly lit cities and the neces-sity of spiritual refreshment in wild spaces assures us that DPCs desert educational programs and staunch advocacy continues to be pressingly important.

As the New Year begins, I hope you will join me in supporting the Desert Protective Council, thereby investing in the protec-tion and preservation of our precious desert ecosystems. Your donation makes a difference.

Wishing you health, peace and joy, and a sense of renewed wonder in the New Year.

Dr. Janet A. Anderson

Kit Fox in restored Coyote Spring area,

Black Rock Desert.

Photo by Graham Stafford

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lovely interactions for a long time. My Sunday was complete!

I recently enjoyed a similar experience of being in the right place at the right time following my participation in a 2-day BLM Desert District Advisory Council tour and meeting in Imperial County. As is my custom, I laid out a stack of our most recent issue of El Paisano newsletters and educational bulletins on the registration table next to the BLM Desert Field Office reports and off-road vehicle magazines. At the end of the long meeting day, as every-one was departing, the executive direc-tor of a well known, large and influential off-road vehicle organization approached. She told me that during the meeting she had read our Educational Bulletin about biological soil crusts. (Winter/Spring 2015 Ed Bulletin #220, by Jayne Belnap). She confided she had not known of the exis-tence, nor the importance, of soil crusts and informed me that although she is an off-roader, she does not want to harm the soil crust. She asked whether I might take her out to the desert and show her what it looked like. This made my heart sing. What a wonderful opportunity to intro-duce a potential new friend to an impor-

tant feature of the desert. In her executive director position, she may be inspired to introduce her off-road organizational members, friends and colleagues to the wonders of biological soil crust and the interest will ripple outward.

Despite all of the educational material we publish in our DPC newsletter and educational bulletins, and post on our web site and social media, as well as all the myriad public comments we submit on environmental impact reports, meetings we attend and coalitions we develop and participate in, we have no idea to what de-gree our audiences are being influenced by our message of desert love and protection. During face-to-face conversations about the desert and in conducting excursions to the desert, we can observe the delight of children and adults as they personally experience the small wonders and mag-nificence of the desert, and then we can be certain that we are cultivating interest and appreciation for the desert.

Despite not being able to generally quantify our impact, we do know that starting in 1954, DPC has made a dif-ference. In March of this year, DPC was honored to receive the prestigious Minerva

Hoyt Annual Desert Conservation Award. This award is testimony to DPCs leader-ship in desert education and its important role desert preservation. We could not have accomplished what we have over these six decades without the support of our members.

In view of the increasing impacts of hu-man population, such as the renewed pro-posal for a gargantuan housing development in the eastern Coachella Valley, BLMs plan to double the number of ORV routes in the Mojave desert, as well as the ongoing attack on our desert public lands with proposed large-scale-remote energy development, and plans for a hydroelectric pump station near Joshua Trees Eagle mountains, DPCs voice is still urgently needed.

With your support we can amplify all of our voices on behalf of protection of our desert southwest. Wont you consider a generous tax-deductible donation to the DPC and invest in our mission to pique the publics interest in the desert, to educate our policy-makers and to support programs to entice children and adults to spend time in and stick up for the desert?

Happy New Year!Terry Weiner

Conservation Corner

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DPC Board directors, members and friends are grieving the sudden loss of Jim Ricker, a passionate desert lover and tireless advocate on behalf of all belea-guered beings.

Jim grew up in Mission Hills, San Di-ego, roaming the canyons of the neighbor-hood with his brother and friends. In the mid-90s, he began to explore the Califor-nia desert and quickly developed an ardent interest in the desert flora and fauna. He camped out in the Mojave and Sonoran desert and fell in love with the Indian Pass area in Eastern Imperial County. Jims penchant for activism was galvanized by the threat of a cyanide-heap-leach gold mine at Indian Pass, an area sacred to the Native American Colorado River tribes because the area includes sections of their ancient footpaththe Trail of Dreamsfrom Pilot Knob Arizona to Spirit Mountain near Blythe California.

Jim was a poetic soul, and a brilliant, witty, humorous poet and essayist. He completed his Bachelors Degree in 2004, and Master of Arts Degree in 2009 at San Diego State University.

Jim served on the Board of Directors for the Desert Protective Council in the late 1990s and edited the organizations newsletter for two years. He has written many essays on desert natural history and on the importance of the preservation of Native American desert cultural landscape. He had been teaching English as a Second Language at Converse International School of Languages in downtown San Diego.

He leaves his brother, Tom Ricker and his sister-in-law Wendy Ricker, as well as many aunts and cousins, and his girlfriend, Lori Roads of Rancho Penasquitos and her family. Jim was also dear to DPCs Project Coordinator Terry Weiners Massachusetts family. A very broad circle of friends,

colleagues, desert activists and students will miss Jim. The desert will be poorer for the extinguishing of his eloquent voice.

Rest in peace, Jim. February 11, 1954October 2, 2015.

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Desert Trilogyis a chapbook of three short stories by Lawrence Hogue, author ofAll the Wild and Lonely Places: Journeys in a Desert

Landscapeand former Communications

Coordinator for DPC.Like Larrys first book, these stories are

set in the deserts of southern California, but all three take readers on much stranger journeys.Difficult to categorizesomewhere between sci-fi, horror, and domestic fictionthey explore relationships between men and women, with the desert backdrop providing just enough weirdness to push the characters interactions to the edge. If you enjoyed Hari Kunzrus Gods Without Men, you might enjoy these.

Desert Trilogy became available as an ebook on November 15, for $2.99. A print version will also be available at a price yet to be determined. For more information, visit www.lawrencehogue.net.

Larry is thrilled to see his first works of fiction appear in print, and even more excited that What I Did for Love will also appear this fall in Phantom Seed: Writing from the California Desert, Issue 5 Fall 2015, ed. Ruth Nolan (published by Old Woman Mountains Press).

Desert Trilogy Book ReviewCover photo

by Steve Berardi

The desert has always intrigued me, perhaps for its vastness, its wildness, how untouched and unexplored it appears by modern standards. The desert holds secrets that I wanted to uncover. Those were my thoughts as a child gazing out the window of a car driving across the desert in 1972 as my parents took our family on a camping adventure across California into Nevada, Arizona, and Utah. The red rocks and arches were fun to play among as a child, but looking at the Mojave Desert en route intrigued me even more the seemingly endless creosote bushes stretching to the horizon on great flats, with jagged rock mountain ranges rising from the basinsbeautiful and alien world inviting exploration.

Growing up in the Berkeley region of the Bay Area in central California, I enjoyed hiking, birding, photography, and field sketching in the local parks, yet as soon as I could drive I headed south to the deserts, or at least the closest thing to deserts in the Coast Range: the Carrizo Plain and the sun-baked edges of the San Joaquin Valley. There I held a sketch book and took notes observing the natural world around me, hauled backpacks full of field guides, camped alone or with friends, and increased my general naturalist knowledge of the grasses, grasshoppers, lizards, birds, kangaroo rats, tracks, and burrows.

As a student at the University of California, Berkeley, I majored in paleontology, but also soaked in as many biology classes as I could, and I credit UCB for increasing my interest in old-

fashioned naturalist skills, and honing my powers of observation. The zoology and botany departments there were wonderful, continuing legacies from such figures as Robert Stebbins and Willis Linn Jepson. Paleontology faculty, especially Dr. Kevin Padian, gave me a solid base in what science is and how research is objectively undertaken. I was overjoyed to return to the Mojave Desert in 1985 on a UC zoology field trip to the Granite Mountains in what would later become the Mojave National Preserve, my first exploration of the desert since childhood.

After graduation I worked in field biology for agencies such as the California Department of Fish and Game (now Fish and Wildlife), US Geological Survey-Biological Resources Division, and as a private contractor on desert tortoise monitoring jobs. It was on those latter jobs that I began to witness the large-scale devastation of desert habitats taking place due to development, whether from urbanization or energy projects. This did not sit well with me.

In the meantime, I published a book, A State of Change: Forgotten Landscapes of California (Heyday 2010), summarizing my years of field notes, observations, and library research on the ecological history of California. I attended the Science Communication graduate study program at UC Santa Cruz where I learned natural science illustration, and I taught myself oil painting and drawing, parallel to my science education.

In 1999 I married Kevin Emmerich, a park ranger in Death Valley National Park, and finally moved to the desert permanently. We started the informal website Basin & Range Watch as a way to track desert development, volunteering our time because we both considered the deserts beautiful, diverse, and worthy of full protection. Lately renewable energy projects have grown in size and scale so much that I have devoted more and more of my time to trying to conserve and protect the desert. I constantly remember my travels in the 1980s and 90s when the deserts were wide-open, remote places full of life and history, as if venturing into a past world. We decided that becoming a nonprofit would enable us to take our advocacy to the next level, working to educate people about the intrinsic value of the deserts and arid ecosystems, fighting to protect those cherished landscapes of my childhood travels.

Notable DPC Member Profile: Laura Cunningham

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The Imperial Valley Desert Museum is a new museum with a long history of promoting education and appreciation for the ancient history of the Imperial Valley and the delicate ecosystems found within it. The last two years have seen newly installed permanent exhibits, addition of 4th grade field trips, and development of a sustain-ability plan.

Brief HistoryAs a part of the Imperial Valley Col-

leges Archaeology Department, archae-ologists in the 1970s recorded over 10,000 Native American sites within Imperial County, making notable paleontological and archaeological discoveries. However, an earthquake in 1979 destroyed the original Museum in El Centro, and the collections were placed in temporary storage. After two decades of support and curation by the El Centro Bureau of Land Manage-ment, local grassroots fundraising, and two major grants, including a generous grant of $86,000 from the Desert Protective Council to finish the interior in 2003, a new museum was finally built in Ocotillo.

In 2011, the Imperial Valley Desert Museum Society hired Dr. Neal Hitch as the Museums Director and charged him with developing a plan to open the new build-ing. Thus began the project to re-curate the Colleges collection of artifacts, develop

Museum exhibits, engage in public outreach programs, and create a permanent funding strategy. This project took four years, four staff, and over fifty volunteers to accomplish.

A Permanent ExhibitIn August 2013, the IVDM Society

contracted with Weldon Exhibits, from San Francisco, to design a permanent exhibit. The interactive exhibits encourage visitors to:

Learn about the local deserts Explore the archaeology of Imperial

County

Connect to California curriculum standards for elementary schools

View the land and local history through the eyes of Native Americans.

Weldon Exhibits believes in engaging the visitor through stories and experiences to capture the imagination and spark the quest for new knowledge. It made them an excel-lent fit with the IVDM.

The permanent exhibit, entitled Land of Extremes, was designed with three phases: Archeology, Masters of the Desert, and Natural Environment. Two of the three exhibit phases have now been completed.

Within each section are rock formations, used to separate exhibits. These formations all represent an actual place. Pull-out panels called Rock Talks provide an interpreta-tion, along with an associated hike, so visitors can explore the sites on their own.

Other areas include a topographical interactive map exploring the history of water in Imperial Valley, from ocean to an-cient Lake Cahuilla, to its latest incarnation the Salton Sea. An immersive diorama in-vites visitors to discover what it might have been like to live along the lake. Additional interactive exhibits explore local chang-ing habitats and the animals that adapt to survive in our desert climate.

Coming Soon: GeologyNow that the first two phases of the

exhibit are complete, the IVDM is gearing up for Phase 3: Natural Environment. In this exhibit section visitors will explore the unique geology of the Imperial Valley, including one of Californias eight active volcanoes. 4th and 6th grade curriculum will be used to explore different types of rocks, tectonic plates, and more. Exhibit design with Weldon Exhibits is beginning this Fall, and the Museums goal is to have

Imperial Valley Museum Update by Anne Morgan

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On November 13 2015, the California Desert District BLM hosted the first annual Southern California Youth Summit, Lead the Way Outdoors at Mount San Antonio College east of Los Angeles in Walnut, California. The summit is designed to connect youth to Americas Great Outdoors and expose young people to higher education and career opportunities in natural resources. Hundreds of high school students, partner agencies and organizations participated in the days events

including hands-on workshops, discussion circles and a higher education and career expo. Efe Erukanure, BLM El Centro Field Office geologist, headed the BLM logistics team in planning for the summit and also took charge of the career circle discussions with BLM professionals as well as other federal, state and local government agencies.

Thirteen students from Imperial Valley attended the youth summit, most of them from Brawley High School. Some partners from El Centro businesses participated

in the Career Circle and Expo portion of the summit including Barretts Biological Surveys, the United Desert Gateway and the Imperial County Film Commission. Student members of the Imperial Valley College Adventure Club also played a major role in planning and running the summit. For photos of the event, see BLM online November, 19 2015 NewsBytes or go to BLMs Facebook page for the Youth Summit. By the way, for up-to-date news articles related to BLM news and their activities, we recommend subscribing to the weekly NewsBytes.

BLM El Centro, with Mr. Erukanures leadership, is planning to collaborate with the Adventure Club and the Imperial Valley Desert Museum to organize a desert-oriented Youth Event in Spring 2016. DPC plans to participate in this event with our educational materials and information related prospects for internships and career opportunities in the field of desert education and conservation.

BLM Desert District First Annual Youth Summit

Photo by BLM Media Crew

the exhibit (estimated $350,000) funded, designed, and built within a year.

Field TripsOur field trip program has been grow-

ing by leaps and bounds. Originally geared towards 4th grade curriculum, we are now piloting field trips for 3rd 6th graders. In 2014, a total of 780 students from 6 different schools come out to the Museum on field trips. Trips for the 20152016 school year have already been begun and it looks like we will double our numbers from last year!

Sustaining the Museum In 2013 Sullivan Solar Power installed

solar panels on the Museums roof. The 180 modules produce 37,600 watts per year. The system was designed to cover 75% of our energy use. Conservation measures, such as installing all LED fixtures in the new exhibit, however, have resulted in the solar system producing 100% of the Museums actual use over the last 12 months. This system offsets the largest monthly utility at the museum.

In December 2014, IVDM was awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities Challenge Grant to create a million dollar endowment that will pay for two staff posi-tions. Through the grant, the NEH will match 3:1 all funds raised over the next four years. After our first year of the Challenge Grant (June 2014July 2015) we established our new endowment with $258,633. Weve already begun the fundraising campaign for 20152016 with a goal of $195,000.

To Get More InformationThe best way to hear about upcoming

exhibits, public events, and Members Only

Events is to become a member of the Impe-rial Valley Desert Museum Society!

Members receive bi-monthly newsletters, gift shop discounts, and Members Only emails for upcoming exhibits and events. These include Friend Raisers: behind-the-scenes previews, workshops, and lecture series, all in intimate, limited attendee settings. All funds raised at Friend Raisers go towards our NEH Challenge Grant.

Museum membership starts as low as $35! Go to our website (www.ivdesertmu seum.org) or email us (ivdmuseum@gmail.com) to find out more!

Anne Morgan is a native of New Orleans, LA who fell in love with the desert at first sight. Morgan came to the Imperial Valley Desert Museum in 2012 after graduating Simmons College in Boston with a Masters in Library and Information Science, specializing in Archives. She began developing the IVDMs archives and has since expanded her work to exhibit research and design, and curation. She is currently the Head Curator and Archivist at the IVDM.

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As DPC Imperial County Coordinator, I have many occasions on my travels around the state to talk about the Imperial Valley. I am stunned at times by how many Californians ask me, Where is Imperial Valley?

Imperial Valley is a huge agricultural area about 100 miles east of San Diego Countys mountains, where a large percent-age of U.S. winter vegetables are grown. It lies east of Indio in the Coachella Valley and extends south to the Mexican border. It includes the cities of El Centro, Braw-ley, Imperial and Calexico, among others. The agricultural area of Imperial Valley is bounded by the Salton Sea to the north and is more or less surrounded by public lands, mostly administered by CA State Parks and the Bureau of Land Management.

When I began my work in the county a decade ago, I realized that desert conserva-tion and preservation had to be addressed with respect to and in harmony with the needs of the human population living in Imperial County. The citizens of Impe-rial County are afflicted by a high rate of poverty and health issues. Imperial County childhood asthma rates are the tied with the Californias Central Valley as the highest in California and among the highest in the nation. Compared to the rest of the state, Imperial Countys children are three times more likely to be hospitalized for asthma, have the highest obesity rate (39.6%), and have the second highest diabetes rate (10.9%). The County is also among the top five counties for non-attainment for PM2.5 fine particulate matter. Community environmental health concerns encompass a wide range of exposures from sectors such as renewable energy, diesel trucks, large-scale agriculture, and also trans-national pollution from Mexico.

When people are not feeling well and are worried about putting food on the table, desert conservation is not a high priority. In this column, I want to inform members and readers about a positive force for education and change in Imperial Valley. This force for change is the non-profit organization Comit Civico del Valle (CCV) founded in Imperial County in 1987 with the mission

to improve access to healthcare, informa-tion, and prevention programs to low-income, underrepresented, and underserved community members in Imperial County by way of education, capacity building, and civic participation.

In 2009, CCV and the California Depart-ment of Toxic Substances (DTSC), Imperial Valley Branch, and other community-based organizations, established the Imperial County Environmental Justice Task Force. This was later named the Imperial Visions Action Network (IVAN). The Task Force conducts monthly meetings, in which residents learn about toxic hazards and how to report environmental problems they observe in their communities to public agencies. Over the first few months of meet-ings, DTSC staff, using Google-Earth, began mapping these environmental problems, making it easier to keep track of the extent and concentrations of environmental prob-lems in terms of locations in communities.

In 2010, Comite launched the on-line reporting system and website for the IVAN program in Imperial Valley, freeing up DTSC staff to investigate and address problems identified by community mem-bers. Over the next few years, other counties with high concentrations of disadvantaged communities launched their own IVAN net-works and in 2013 the name was changed to Identifying Violations Affecting Neighbor-hoods, which better conveys what the IVAN Program is and does.

Comit Civico del Valle, in creating the Imperial Valley Environmental Justice Task Force and the online IVAN network has transformed environmental enforcement in California. Comits daylong Annual Environmental Health Leadership Summit convenes decision makers, experts in public health and the environment, students and members of the community to share ideas and creates actions to progress toward a healthier, more empowered community.

Another landmark of Comits suc-cessful advocacy is the Federal EPAs 2015 announcement of their choice of Imperial County as one of the 50 communities to focus action and resources in the next two years through their Making a Visible Differ-

ence in Communities Campaign. (See EPA web site). Through this campaign, among other things, the EPA will be assisting the community in installing 40 air monitors throughout the Valley. Before this action, the Imperial County Air Pollution Control District had installed a total of only four countrywide.

For an update on the air quality in your location, go to http://www.airnow.gov/ (Imperial Valley locations are often in the moderate category).

As I have become acquainted with the participants in the Environmental Justice Task Force, including representatives of lo-cal government and federal and state agen-cies, I have become comfortable introducing discussions related to adverse health and economic impacts. Topics have ranged from the damage to air quality from scraping the desert for large-scale renewable energy development, fallowing viable farmland, agricultural burning of fields, off-road vehicle use, and the exposure of pesticide-laden shorelines of a shrinking Salton Sea. My aim is to discuss alternatives to whole-sale scraping of desert and farmland, and to suggest the means to better manage off-road vehicle use.

Knowledge of badly impaired air quality and its health impacts in Imperial County is not new. Discussions of the causes of this dire situation have been ongoing for decades. Studies on the causes of childhood asthma are conclusive. Solutions to many problems are obvious.

What is new is the gradual education and mobilization of the Imperial Valley com-munity, in large part due to the effective advocacy of Comit Civico del Valle and the Environmental Justice Task Force and its supporters. The community is learning how to demand the attention of the regulatory agencies and learning how to legislatively change the status quo.

Change happens when an informed community rises up to demand it. In Impe-rial Valley, there is a strong feeling that the times they are a-changin! And I am proud to say DPC will be assisting.

Terry Weiner, DPC Imperial County Projects and Conservation Coordinator

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