Mojave National Preserve

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Address:2701 Barstow Rd
Barstow, CA 92311
Phone:760-252-6100
Fax:760-252-6174
Web: www.nps.gov/moja/
Size: 1,529,927 acres.
Established: Established on October 31, 1994, by the California Desert Protection Act.
Location:Easily reached via I-15 or I-40 east of Barstow, California, and west of Needles, California, and Las Vegas, Nevada. Six freeway exits provide visitor access.
Facilities:Campgrounds, visitor center, trails.
Activities:Camping, hiking, bicycling, horseback riding, auto touring, hunting, wildflower viewing, off-road driving, interpretive programs.
Special Features:The preserve protects the fragile habitat of the desert tortoise, vast open spaces, and historic mining scenes, such as the Kelso Railroad Depot (built in 1924). It is also home to the world's largest Joshua tree forest and the 600-foot-high Kelso Dunes, the third tallest dunes in North America.

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John McCain wrote to Interior Secretary Sally Jewell urging her to rein in the burro population after the animals caused 24 car accidents over a two-year period in a small Arizona city near Mojave National Preserve.

The burro quandary: wild donkeys are cute but destructive, and park officials don't know what to do with them

"We want to wrap this, we want to get it done," Linda Slater of the Mojave National Preserve, said.

Court settlement ends fight over cross display in Mojave desert park

2763, 2763A-230 (2000) ("None of the funds in this or any other Act may be used by the Secretary of the Interior to remove the five-foot tall white cross located within the boundary of the Mojave National Preserve....").

The cross national memorial: at the intersection of speech and religion

It also covers East county, from north of the Joshua Tree National Park toward the Colorado River Indian Reservation in the east and north to Lake Havasu City and also the North county, from east of Death Valley National Park and south to the Mojave National Preserve and Twentynine Palms.

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In this latest ruling, the 9th Circuit stated that the government can't trade a parcel of public lands to private hands to allow a Christian cross to remain on display (a move legislated by Congress in 2004 after the 9th Circuit ordered the removal of the "Sunrise Rock" cross at the Mojave National Preserve).

Banning a Christian cross on private land in a public park

Surreal is the word for Banshee Canyon, one of the best spring escapes in eastern California's Mojave National Preserve. First there's the name, said to come from the whistling sound of the wind as it swirls through pockets in the canyon's volcanic rocks.

Desert maze

No Joshua trees will survive in Joshua Tree National Park, nor in the Mojave National Preserve.

No more Joshua trees? Climate change may wipe out the signature tree of the Mojave

The National Park Service website claims that the Mojave National Preserve is the place "to escape the crowded visitor centers and campgrounds found at other parks." They have that right: we're the only people here.

Midnight in the Mojave

Safari Club International and the California Department of Fish and Game received permission from the Mojave National Preserve and the U.S.

SCI to install big game wells in the Mojave National Preserve

Murphy's directive, Ruch said, is the result of a "pattern of political appointees of the Bush administration accommodating right-wing mad Christian fundamentalist groups about how religious views are displayed at parks." Among them is the promotion at a Grand Canyon bookstore of a "creationist" text, which takes a biblical view of the canyon's formation; the reinstatement of biblical plaques within the canyon; and an ongoing legal battle to display an eight-foot cross at the Mojave National Preserve in California.

Censoring history: the National Park Service has reportedly reversed a decision to edit gay images out of a Lincoln Memorial video. But history may still be altered

Natural History of the Mojave National Preserve, California.

2003 domestic spring trips: plus all Alaska, Arctic Canada, and Hawaii trips for 2003!

The sand in dunes west of the Colorado River, including those in Kelso Dunes in the Mojave National Preserve, is rich in feldspar.

Shifting sands: dunes hold heaps of material--and climate clues, too