Welcome to Season 2! Chris and Alicia spend time communing with an 11,700-year-old creosote in the Mojave Desert, and discuss the species' importance as well as the ethics of treating millennia-old beings as disposable.

King Clone's Wikipedia page is here. 

If for some reason you want to learn more about creosote gall midges, you can start here. 

You can learn more about the Western Solar PEIS, and find out how to make a comment, at this site. Comment deadline is currently February 6, so don't dawdle!

If you're looking for the lin to Letters From the Desert, it's here.

Welcome to Season 2! Chris and Alicia spend time communing with an 11,700-year-old creosote in the Mojave Desert, and discuss the species' importance as well as the ethics of treating millennia-old beings as disposable.
King Clone's Wikipedia page is <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Clone">here. </a>
If for some reason you want to learn more about creosote gall midges, you can start <a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1558-5646.2007.00069.x">here</a>. 
You can learn more about the Western Solar PEIS, and find out how to make a comment, <a href="https://eplanning.blm.gov/eplanning-ui/project/2022371/510">at this site</a>. Comment deadline is currently February 6, so don't dawdle!
If you're looking for the lin to Letters From the Desert, it's <a href="https://lettersfromthedesert.substack.com">here.</a>

Join Chris Clarke and a variety of guests as they explore the challenges and opportunities of the American Southwest's fragile ecosystems. Engaging interviews with experts, activists, and advocates on conservation, land management, and environmental justice. Science and sentiment, politics and philosophy, hiking and history, culture and creativity all go into defending the desert. Be forewarned: We are out to recruit you to the cause.

Join Chris Clarke and a variety of guests as they explore the challenges and opportunities of the American Southwest's fragile ecosystems. Engaging interviews with experts, activists, and advocates on conservation, land management, and environmental justice. Science and sentiment, politics and philosophy, hiking and history, culture and creativity all go into defending the desert. Be forewarned: We are out to recruit you to the cause.

Vital info on protecting our irrepaceable deserts

90 Miles from Needles: the Desert Protection Podcast

Join host Chris Clarke and guests as they explore the challenges and opportunities of the American Southwest's fragile ecosystems. Engaging interviews with experts, activists, and advocates on conservation, land management, and environmental justice.

Join host Chris Clarke and guests as they explore the challenges and opportunities of the American Southwest's fragile ecosystems. Engaging interviews with experts, activists, and advocates on conservation, land management, and environmental justice.

Chris and Alicia visit and discuss the longest-lived plant in the desert

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