16 Nov 2025 Transforming the Desert: Utility-Scale Solar in California’s Mojave This dispatch series traces the expansion and ecological consequences of utility-scale solar development across the Mojave Desert. The first installment… Kim Stringfellow
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
02 Mar 2015 Ward Valley: An Extreme and Solemn Relationship This is our land, this is our water, these are our roots. It is sacred to us because it is… Kim Stringfellow
15 Aug 2014 King Clone Creosote Just north in nearby Lucerne Valley and not far from where I live in Joshua Tree is a fairly unremarkable… Kim Stringfellow 1 Comment
