12 Sep

Posted at 12:33h in DRECP, National Conservation Lands

[vc_row 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" css_animation=""][vc_column][vc_column_text]In coming weeks, we expect the Bureau of Land Management to finalize the Desert Renewable Energy and Conservation Plan (DRECP), in which the public lands of the Amargosa Basin are likely to be designated at California Desert Conservation Lands. To celebrate, we are highlighting the decade-long partnership between the Amargosa Conservancy and the BLM...

18 Apr

Posted at 22:54h in AC In the News, Amargosa Vole, Groundwater, Plants and Wildlife, Resource Monitoring

From our not-so-forgotten corner of the Mojave desert: Two of our major areas of work were featured in a series on climate change produced by the Desert Sun and distributed via USA Today! [caption id="attachment_1651" align="aligncenter" width="499"] Our beloved vole featured among species threatened by changing climate.[/caption]   [caption id="attachment_1654" align="aligncenter" width="493"] Mapping and collecting data on springs and water flow across the Mojave and...

07 Apr

Posted at 11:26h in Amargosa Vole, Habitat Restoration, Notes from the Field, Plants and Wildlife

In late November of 2015 our Student Conservation Association AmeriCorps intern Abby Mattson set about planning a greenhouse nursery in which to grow native three square bulrush (Schoenoplectus americanus). In the long run, this cultivated bulrush would be used in habitat restoration for the endangered Amargosa vole (Microtus californicus scirpensis), which absolutely relies on this native plant as its food...