FIELD DISPATCHES - THE MOJAVE PROJECT

Lithium and the New Green Extractionism

ENVIRONMENT, GEOLOGY, MINING

Report on the Waterworks of the Arid Mojave Desert Region of the United States 2022

ENVIRONMENT, HISTORY, WATER

A Contradiction: The 1910 Lanfair/Dunbar Intentional Community in the Eastern Mojave Desert

COMMUNITIES, HISTORY

Voices from Death Valley’s Chaos

GEOLOGY, PEOPLE

Downwind Upshot-Knothole

ENVIRONMENT, HISTORY, MILITARY

Jackrabbits, Ghost Grids and LandBanking+

COMMUNITIES, DEVELOPMENT, HISTORY

Bringing Creation Back Together Again: The Salt Songs of the Nuwuvi

CULTURE, NATIVE AMERICANS, PEOPLE

The Technicolor Desert: Cinema and the Mojave

CULTURE, HISTORY, PEOPLE

Desert Gold: Part III

Desert Gold: Part II

ENVIRONMENT, MINING, PEOPLE

Desert Gold: Part I

CULTURE, HISTORY, MINING

Making Astronauts in Mojave

AEROSPACE, PEOPLE, TECHNOLOGY

The Joshua Tree: Myth, Mutualism and Survival

ENVIRONMENT, HISTORY

Old Woman of the Mountain

ENVIRONMENT, GEOLOGY, PEOPLE

Willie Boy: How A Manhunt Became Myth

CULTURE, HISTORY, NATIVE AMERICANS, PEOPLE

Giant Rock, Space People and the Integratron

GEOLOGY, HISTORY, PEOPLE

The Trouble with Cadiz

ENVIRONMENT, WATER

Shifting Dust: Development and Demographics in Antelope Valley

COMMUNITIES, DEVELOPMENT

Peace, Love and Rockets

AEROSPACE, TECHNOLOGY

Landscape of Belonging: Joshua Tree’s Climbing Legacy

COMMUNITIES, GEOLOGY, PEOPLE

Gone to Pot: Adelanto’s Green Land Rush

COMMUNITIES, DEVELOPMENT, ENERGY

In Bloom: Mary Beal’s Mojave

ENVIRONMENT, PEOPLE

Kokoweef: Still Searching for the Lost River of Gold

GEOLOGY, HISTORY, MINING, PEOPLE

How the Timbisha Shoshone Got Their Land Back

CULTURE, HISTORY, NATIVE AMERICANS

Darwin Dreamin’

COMMUNITIES, CULTURE, MINING

Borax: The Magic Crystal

GEOLOGY, HISTORY, MINING

That High Desert Sound

COMMUNITIES, CULTURE, PEOPLE

Needles and the Damage Done

Marta Becket’s Amargosa Opera House

CULTURE, PEOPLE

Holes in the Desert

Divining Devils Hole: Part II

ENVIRONMENT, GEOLOGY, WATER

Divining Devils Hole: Part I

ENVIRONMENT, GEOLOGY, WATER

Gopherus agassizii: A Cultural History of Tortoises

ENVIRONMENT, PEOPLE

Zzyzx: Revisiting Doc Springer’s Boulevard of Dreams

HISTORY, PEOPLE

John C. Van Dyke and the Desert Wasteland

ENVIRONMENT, HISTORY, PEOPLE

Packrats and Possum Trot

CULTURE, ENVIRONMENT, PEOPLE

Ward Valley: An Extreme and Solemn Relationship

CULTURE, ENVIRONMENT, NATIVE AMERICANS, PEOPLE

Anyone for hounding rocks?

GEOLOGY, PEOPLE

Reimagining the Amargosa

COMMUNITIES, PEOPLE

Experiments in Desert Utopic Living

COMMUNITIES, DEVELOPMENT, HISTORY

Land Speeding at El Mirage

CULTURE, PEOPLE

Gem-O-Rama

COMMUNITIES, GEOLOGY

The End of the World

King Clone Creosote

Reyner Banham Loves the Mojave