#mojavedesert — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #mojavedesert, aggregated by home.social.
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Signage, Barstow, California
#DocumentaryPhotography #Barstow #California #Route66 #MojaveDesert #Americana #VintageSignage #NeonSigns #SignagePhotography #RoadTrip #UrbanDecay #RetroAmerica
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Two deserts, one park. Joshua Tree never runs out of unusual landscapes.
#joshuatree #joshuatreenationalpark #mojavedesert #california #travel
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Joshua Tree National Park Coloring Book #nationalparks #travel #mojavedesert #southerncalifornia #yuccavalley www.amazon.com/dp/1948872463
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Comment today to Protect the Mojave Desert from Industrial Mining!
#PublicLands #ProtectOurParks #MojaveDesert #CastleMountain #Mining
https://act.sierraclub.org/actions/national?actionid=ar0619965&id=70131000001iOuIAAU -
Valley of Fire, where the Mojave burns without flames.
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This was the big exciting find from my day #herping in Mojave National Preserve, my first chuckwalla! Wow they do live in the desert areas I'm used to hiking in, I've never actually seen one. After finding six other species of lizards in the same morning, I decided this would be my day to find a chuckwalla.
As I was driving through the Preserve, I spotted a low, basalt escarpment above a dry wash. Everything I'd read suggested that was perfect chuckwalla habitat.
I walked a quarter mile across the desert and then down to one end of the escarpment then all the way back up to the other and then on the way back down, I saw it! This handsome critter was surveying its domain from its perch about 15 feet up the cliff. Conveniently, it posed for a while before dipping out of sight.
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Today's #LizardReport is a little different because I am on a road trip. Camped out at Kelso Dunes and spent the morning herping in Mojave National Preserve.
7 species of lizard, 4 of them "life lizards"! Here's the first, Phrynosoma platyrhinos, a horned lizard. Look at that camo! They're sooo cute!
(It's intermission at a live theater performance, so I'll post more later or tomorrow in this thread.)
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We accidentally created a mutant cross-pollinated squash. I'd heard of this, and perhaps it's happened to us before with the fodder squashes from last season (those were dreadful to me but the pigs didn't care, I thought it was more about where they were grown than their genetics), but this time it's... delightful. Most likely one of our ronde de nice summer squashes crossed with delicata, since those are what happened to grow nearby, and it's sweet like a delicata winter squash but with the texture of a summer squash. It also might be happening with another, since the "zuchinni" growing nearby is, uh, well, it looks like nothing I've seen before. I'll post a thread of mutant squash pictures soon.
In my defense, I didn't think any of this was going to grow, since these seeds were all so old. I let my children seed blast this basin thinking "well, we'll get what we get!" and then nothing germinated for three weeks so I figured it was a lost cause. Then we manured it to prepare it for the next season and, well, now we have six foot long squash vines and more fruit than we're going to know what to do with when it comes time to harvest them. Happy accidents!
#Gardening #Zone9 #MojaveDesert #California #Permaculture #Squash
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Hype for the Future 141B: City of Saint George, Utah
Overview The City of Saint George is located within Washington County near the southwestern edge of the State of Utah. Within Washington County, the community is identified as home to the Saint George and Red Cliffs Utah Temples, both associated with the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, as well as the Dinosaur Discovery Site at Johnson Farm.https://novatopflex.wordpress.com/2026/03/21/hype-for-the-future-141b-city-of-saint-george-utah/
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These Angelenos journeyed to Adelanto to protest conditions at #immigrant detention centers
https://laist.com/news/politics/ice-immigrant-detention-centers-adelanto-caravan-serenadeHundreds of people from across Greater #LA journeyed to the #MojaveDesert this weekend to protest living conditions at the Adelanto Immigration and Customs Enforcement Processing Center, where an estimated 2,000 people are being held.
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Hype for the Future 135G: State of California Explained At-Large
Introduction The State of California is located along the West Coast of the United States of America and is the most populous state in the nation though containing a smaller land area than the States of Alaska and Texas. By population density, the state is toward the higher end, albeit not nearly as densely populated overall as the State of New Jersey or even the Southern New England states. Other states with higher densities than California include Maryland, Delaware, Pennsylvania, and […] -
Mojave Desert Trails Shut Down: Judge Orders 2,200 Miles Closed to Protect Desert Tortoise
A judge ordered 2,200 miles of Mojave Desert trails closed to protect desert tortoises. See how this affects public land access and conservation efforts.
#MojaveDesert, #DesertTortoise, #OHVclosure, #PublicLand, #Conservation
https://newsletter.tf/mojave-desert-judge-closes-trails-tortoise-protection/
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Over 2,200 miles of off-road trails in the Mojave Desert are now closed by a judge's order to protect desert tortoises. This is a significant change for public land use in the area.
#MojaveDesert, #DesertTortoise, #OHVclosure, #PublicLand, #Conservation
https://newsletter.tf/mojave-desert-judge-closes-trails-tortoise-protection/
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[Photos] #WardValley: Celebrating Stopping a #NuclearWaste Dump in the #MojaveDesert 2026
via @bsnorrell.blogspot.com
February 21, 2026
" 'We are the Pipa Aha Macav, the people along the river, instructed by the Creator to protect it.' Barrackman's words, before he passed to the Spirit World, were at Ward Valley, during the 113-day Occupation which halted a #nuclear waste dump on #SacredLand in 1998."https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2026/02/ward-valley-celebrating-stopping.html
#NoNukes #NoNukesForAI #NoNuclearWasteDumping #EnvironmentalRacism #RethinkNotRestart #NoNewNukes
