08 Aug

Posted at 16:34h in Solar

[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text]Cover Photo: Undisturbed Mojave Desert Lands at the Yellow Pine Solar Project site. photo: Patrick Donnelly   [vc_separator type='transparent' position='center' color='' thickness='' up='' down=''][/vc_column_text][vc_column_text] Or, Why Environmentalists in the Desert Oppose [Utility Scale] Solar   Just over the mountains from Tecopa, in the Lower Pahrump Valley, there is a plan to install a 3000 acre solar array in...

13 Oct

Posted at 17:29h in Announcements, Mojave Trails

For Immediate Release: October 13, 2015 Contact: Patrick Donnelly, Executive Director. 760.852.4339 or patrick@amargosaconservancy.org   SOUTHERN INYO COUNTY COMMUNITY MEMBERS TRAVEL TO WHITEWATER PRESERVE IN SUPPORT OF NATIONAL MONUMENTS   (Shoshone, CA) – Ten residents of Southern Inyo County are making the 250 mile one-way journey to Whitewater Preserve near Palm Springs, California, to participate in a listening session with Senator Dianne Feinstein, Obama administration officials, and other...

27 Feb

Posted at 23:03h in Advocacy, Destinations, Lands

[caption id="attachment_327" align="alignleft" width="300"] Looking across the Silurian Valley. The Avawatz Mountains and Salt Creek as viewed from the recently denied solar project site.[/caption] The Silurian Valley, a vast expanse of creosote scrub and sand dunes surrounded by rugged mountain ranges, has become a flashpoint in the debate about utility-scale solar in the California desert. Spanish energy giant Iberdrola proposed a...