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EPISODE #215: AMONG THE STATELY TREES

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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:

#113 THE SECRET DESERT

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Tonight we share the tale of the Krill Papers, strange legends of Cold War space-alien conspiracies, located right in the very heart of the Nevada desert wilderness.

Speaking of, we are also joined by Patrick Donnelly, Nevada state director of the Center for Biological Diversity, which along with Nevada native tribes and desert lovers everywhere is celebrating a victory. Ever been to the Desert National Wildlife Refuge? Well whether you ever set foot there or not, it’s safe again, for the desert bighorn and desert tortoise and a true wonderland of rare wild lands. For now. Let’s keep it that way.

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And happy book publication week to us!available everywhere, please enjoy responsibly.

New soundscapes from RedBlueBlackSilver, and don’t forget to check out his new album, Five Flora.

EPISODE #032: STRANGE CIRCLES & MYSTERIOUS TRACKS

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DESERT ORACLE RADIOPhotos by Tanene Allison.

Mysteries of the Great Basin and the Mojave tonight, as we follow the discovery of hundreds of strange ground circles north of Benton on Highway 6 and the bizarre three-clawed tracks of an alleged monster in a nature preserve just outside of the town of Joshua Tree—the latter discovered by Tanene Allison of Joshua Tree. She joins us tonight to discuss these oddball three-clawed footprints that were twice the size of her 70-lb. dog’s paw prints.

And thanks to Patrick Donnelly in Pahrump, we got looped in on a terrific mystery involving bizarre satellite imagery and last-minute scientific field studies.

It’s Episode #032 of DESERT ORACLE RADIO. Listen live on the radio, KCDZ 107.7 FM in Joshua Tree, every Friday night at 10 p.m. Or get the podcast via your preferred podcast service provider.
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