13 Mar 2024 Lithium and the New Green Extractionism This is the first in a series of field dispatches focused on the convergence of climate change, mining, renewable energy,… Kim Stringfellow
17 Aug 2022 Report on the Waterworks of the Arid Mojave Desert Region of the United States 2022 On October 13, 1893, Major John Wesley Powell, celebrated explorer, geologist and Civil War veteran, addressed delegates of the Second… Kim Stringfellow
14 Jul 2022 A Contradiction: The 1910 Lanfair/Dunbar Intentional Community in the Eastern Mojave Desert Since the earliest days of slavery, African Americans risked everything to find freedom. After the U.S. Civil War, lack of… Kim Stringfellow
23 Dec 2021 LACE/Mojave Project Morongo Basin Day Tour Nov 4, 2018 MOJAVE PROJECT DAY FIELD TRIP of the Joshua Tree/Morongo Basin area. Host and Guide: Kim Stringfellow, Project Director Sunday,… Kim Stringfellow
23 Dec 2021 LACE/Mojave Project Weekend Field Tour Oct 12 – 14, 2018 Take a three-day field trip deep into the heart of the California Desert with The Mojave Project and LACE. Your host… Kim Stringfellow
04 Dec 2021 Voices from Death Valley’s Chaos Bennie still makes me smile and laugh and Lauren still draws out my more serious side, even though both men… Kim Stringfellow
27 Jun 2021 Downwind Upshot-Knothole In the moments before the light of a thousand suns illuminated the heavens, the bellwether lifts his wooly head. Sixty-five… Kim Stringfellow
29 Aug 2020 Jackrabbits, Ghost Grids and LandBanking+ Around the time W. Storrs Lee’s The Great California Deserts hit store bookshelves in 1963, the American frontier appeared to… Kim Stringfellow
21 Mar 2020 Bringing Creation Back Together Again: The Salt Songs of the Nuwuvi It is no surprise that Matt Leivas, Sr. is a ram. By this I mean he is a Na, a… Kim Stringfellow
17 Nov 2019 The Technicolor Desert: Cinema and the Mojave Virtually pressed up against the northern boundaries of Los Angeles, the Mojave Desert is Hollywood’s backyard, if not its backlot,… Kim Stringfellow
15 Sep 2019 Desert Gold: Part III >On a smaller scale, recreational prospecting thrives throughout the West—especially in its desert regions. Instead of a scruffy dusty burro… Kim Stringfellow
23 Mar 2019 Desert Gold: Part II The General Mining Act of 1872 encourages exploration, claiming and mining of valuable mineral deposits by U.S. citizens of “ordinary… Kim Stringfellow
22 Mar 2019 Desert Gold: Part I Gold is elusive stuff. In fact, so elusive that its earthly genesis had remained a mystery until August 2017, when… Kim Stringfellow
13 Dec 2018 Making Astronauts in Mojave “How do you keep a spaceship simple?” Dan Kreigh rhetorically asks several dozen attendees of Plane Crazy Saturday, a monthly… Kim Stringfellow
26 Oct 2018 The Joshua Tree: Myth, Mutualism and Survival On April 14, 1844, riding eastward out of the Tehachapi Pass near Oak Creek into a landscape that would later… Kim Stringfellow
08 Aug 2018 Old Woman of the Mountain In 1934, Jack and Ida Mitchell made their way to the Providence Mountains with the desire to reinvent themselves. Four… Kim Stringfellow
25 Jun 2018 Willie Boy: How A Manhunt Became Myth “The white people keep getting the story wrong. All of us know that Willie Boy got away...At least that’s what… Kim Stringfellow
25 Apr 2018 Giant Rock, Space People and the Integratron On the morning of February 21, 2000, at 8:20 a.m., an extraordinary event occurred. In outlying Landers, California, an immense… Kim Stringfellow
29 Jan 2018 The Trouble with Cadiz Cadiz Inc.’s 34,000-acre property is located just south of the old Santa Fe railroad line between one of the last… Kim Stringfellow
25 Nov 2017 Shifting Dust: Development and Demographics in Antelope Valley From space, the far western portion of the Mojave Desert resembles a giant arrow pointing towards the Pacific. Flanked by… Kim Stringfellow
08 Aug 2017 Peace, Love and Rockets The rugged terrain and crystal clear airspace above the Mojave Desert has served as a military and aerospace testing site… Kim Stringfellow
30 Jun 2017 Landscape of Belonging: Joshua Tree’s Climbing Legacy It was an idyllic era for us ‘old-timers.’ We climbed the obvious lines, picked our competition and leisurely experimented with… Kim Stringfellow
18 Feb 2017 Gone to Pot: Adelanto’s Green Land Rush The hardscrabble City of Adelanto (Spanish for “progress”) has a population of nearly 32,000, with one-third of its residents living… Kim Stringfellow
03 Sep 2016 In Bloom: Mary Beal’s Mojave Readers of the now-defunct Desert Magazine, known as DM to its most faithful, followed Randall Henderson’s popular editorial column entitled… Kim Stringfellow
02 Aug 2016 Kokoweef: Still Searching for the Lost River of Gold Either Uncle Earl Dorr discovered the richest gold deposit in the United States…or he was the most imaginative liar in… Kim Stringfellow
04 Jul 2016 How the Timbisha Shoshone Got Their Land Back In our religion we don’t practice within four walls. Our religion is written in all these mountains and in the… Kim Stringfellow
18 May 2016 Darwin Dreamin’ Darwin lies tucked away in a depression between the Argus and Coso Ranges in a desolate high-desert scrubland still populated… Kim Stringfellow
12 Apr 2016 Borax: The Magic Crystal It was a rare occasion that a visitor would stop over at Aaron and Rosie Winters’ modest stone cabin in… Kim Stringfellow
24 Feb 2016 That High Desert Sound Where sage and bloom and pine trees meet the waterfall. Where the mountains meet the sky. Through the pines and… Kim Stringfellow
13 Jan 2016 Needles and the Damage Done When the first major business closed in Needles, local residents didn’t see it as the beginning of the end; they… Kim Stringfellow
04 Jan 2016 Marta Becket’s Amargosa Opera House A fortune teller’s prophecy and a fortuitous flat tire led the multitalented doyenne Marta Becket to resurrect and transform Death… Kim Stringfellow
01 Dec 2015 Holes in the Desert It is a moonless night and the distant sound of rattling train cars is punctuated by the high-pitched grinding of… Kim Stringfellow
19 Oct 2015 Divining Devils Hole: Part II Around the same time that the two young men disappeared into the abysmal depths of Devils Hole, irreversible ecological devastation… Kim Stringfellow
05 Oct 2015 Divining Devils Hole: Part I On June 20, 1965, four high school buddies set out to a remote desert location about ninety miles northwest of… Kim Stringfellow
30 Aug 2015 Gopherus agassizii: A Cultural History of Tortoises The desert tortoise has been under siege by humans long before the Mojave Desert’s militarized and suburbanized landscape began to… Kim Stringfellow
10 Jul 2015 Zzyzx: Revisiting Doc Springer’s Boulevard of Dreams Many iconic points of interest dot the Mojave Desert stretch of Interstate 15, the busy speedway linking Los Angeles and… Kim Stringfellow
19 Jun 2015 John C. Van Dyke and the Desert Wasteland The weird solitude, the great silence, the grim desolation, are the very things with which every desert wanderer eventually falls… Kim Stringfellow
05 Jun 2015 Packrats and Possum Trot A closer look at the collection habits of humans and other species suggests that we are all purveyors and taxonomists… Kim Stringfellow
