Earth Day is next weekend and there are a couple of different events that you can register early for. The Morongo Basin Conservation Association Living Landscape Tour is coming Sunday, April 27. There will be seven sites on this year’s tour throughout Yucca Valley, Joshua Tree and 29 Palms. The tour will showcase engaging and attractive desert-wise landscapes throughout the Morongo Basin – showing you how residents are living in harmony with the desert environment with native, low-water plants…

A wetter winter may be lifting California out of a drought, but the Mojave desert manages to bloom and show off its wild and beautiful flora every year due to our abundance of native plants that thrive in our desert ecosystem. The Morongo Basin Conservation Association Living Landscape Tour is coming Sunday, April 27. There will be seven sites on this year’s tour throughout Yucca Valley, Joshua Tree and 29 Palms. The tour will showcase engaging and attractive desert-wise landscapes throughout…

Registration for the Miracle League 2023 Spring Season is opening up March 27th until April 3rd. The mission of The Miracle League of the Desert is to provide opportunities for local area youth and adults to play America’s favorite pastime, regardless of their ability, disability, or special needs. It’s a local chapter of a national program, and they have held two seasons every year for the past decade. In the Fall season, the league had over 40 players and their buddies play baseball at Brehm…

A recent proposal by the Department of Interior aims to rebalance public land management by placing conservation on “an equal footing” with other land uses.  The U.S. Department of the Interior is a federal agency that protects and manages the Nation’s natural resources and cultural heritage. It does by providing science and other info about those resources. The proposed “Public Lands Rule” would guide the efforts of the Bureau of Land Management, or BLM - which is responsible for…