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Letters From the Desert
Natural history, environmental issues, and other ruminations from the Mojave Desert by Chris Clarke
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Letter from the Desert: Emerging
Our last newsletter was met with two paid readers ending their subscriptions prematurely.
Letter From the Desert: The Loneliest Road
Before we get started: The latest episode of 90 Miles from Needles also covers Nevada, and how the push for data centers is reshaping the state’s deserts.
Letter From the Desert: Flash Flood as Palette Knife
Yesterday the thunderheads stacked up over the Providence Mountains.
Letter from the Desert: Squirrel!
We spent the weekend surrounded by acorn woodpeckers and hermit thrushes, in a mixed ponderosa pine-Gambel oak forest at around 6,500 feet above mean sea level.
Letter From the Desert: Hurting
Your bowl is cleaned and tucked away. Your leash has been retired, and the collar I bought for you a decade ago, which you wore until the desert sun aged it into a maze of tiny fissures and bleached the black leather gray, is resting in a drawer beside my bed, safe until I can bear to look at it again.
Letter From the Desert: Goodbye
The next 24 hours will be the longest and shortest 24 hours in my life.Letters From the Desert is a reader-supported publication.
Letter From the Desert: Mesquites Again
Reminder: We are campaigning to raise $10K to launch the Fellowship for Desert Reporting, which will enable us to pay freelance journalists to contribute their work to various projects of the Desert Advocacy Media Network, including the 90 Miles from Needles podcast.
Letter from the Desert: Waiting
I’m gonna be honest with you all: I don’t know how I’ll be after Heart is gone.Thanks for reading Letters From the Desert!
Letter From the Desert: Ajo
Reminder: the Desert Advocacy Media Network is raising funds to hire emerging desert journalists to expand and improve the 90 Miles from Needles podcast’s range of voices and issues.