EPISODE #215: AMONG THE STATELY TREES
Where’s the beautiful part, anyway? Well, start by walking about a mile past the last parking lot or dirt road or residential car-parts dump or informal halfway house or accidental pit-bull breeding farm, and keep going in the direction of the difficult terrain: the hills and the mountains and the boulders. Not the hills covered in radio relay towers, but the ones with nothing up there at all, nothing except more boulders, more spiky yucca trees that slash your arms, gnarled junipers and needle-armed Joshua trees, up to the craggy peak where the stately pinyons stand proud. Keep going that way.
On the second half of the program, Patrick Donnelly (newsletter) from the Center for Biological Diversity returns to talk about an international land grab dreamt up by a local commissioner in Lincoln County, Nevada, along with the nation of Denmark, which plans to destroy centuries-old forests of pinyon and juniper on your public lands to mush into “bio-fuel” for container ships. What?!
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Soundscapes by RedBlueBlackSilver; written & produced by Ken Layne. This is EPISODE #215: AMONG THE STATELY TREES. Listen to the radio broadcast Friday nights at 10 p.m. on KCDZ 107.7 FM in Joshua Tree & the Mojave High Desert, or enjoy the podcast right now: