activism

S1E17: Mylar Balloons: threat or menace? plus Joshua Tree NP AMA

They are everywhere! But people are doing someting about those ubiquitous mylar balloons. Plus we ask Joshua Tree NP's David Smith some tough questions.

May 21, 2022x
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00:46:0242.19 MB

S1E10: Remembering Phil Klasky and Ward Valley

From the mid-1980s until the first months of the 21st Century, a coalition of desert tribes and non-Native activists worked to keep the state of California from siting a low-level nuclear waste dump in the Mojave Desert, on land sacred to at least five tribes, above an aquifer that drains into the...

March 02, 2022x
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00:43:1939.77 MB

S1E5: Where Have All The Flowers Gone?

Spring is coming, and that means that hundreds of thousands of people start thinking about visiting the desert to see the "superbloom." But even in the rare years when it happens, there's a right way and a wrong way to take in the desert flower show. Chris and Alicia offer tips. Plus: a note on Uk...

February 01, 2022x
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00:37:4534.64 MB

S1E3: The Life, Death, and Rebirth of Cima Dome

Cima Dome was supposed to be a place where Joshua trees were most likely to survive climate change. A climate-accentuated wildfire hit there anyway. In this episode, Chris relates how much the Cima Dome Joshua tree forest meant to him, he traumatizes Alicia by showing her the place, and then we ta...