Desert Advocate

I've almost no words to describe what Canadian mining giant Hudbay is doing to the Santa Rita Mountains near Tucson, AZ. The first 20 seconds show the Rosemont side, then the ridge line, then the west side. Hudbay plans to remove 2.5 miles of the ridge line. Mountain top removal.

Scoping meetings (virtually) for the Rough Hat Clark County Solar Project November 15, 2022 Virtual Scoping Meeting Registration: us02web.zoom.us/.../reg.../WN_… November 16, 2022 Virtual Scoping Meeting Registration: us02web.zoom.us/.../reg.../WN_…

Photo 1: Old Growth Mojave Desert on public lands between Tecopa, CA and Pahrump, NV. Then the Interior Department went ahead and approved the 3,000-acre Yellow Pine Solar boondoggle - and two more big projects are on the way at an additional 8,000 acres.

The Jean Lake Solar Project would be a 750 MW solar project on 4,500 acres in the Mojave Desert located in Hidden Valley just south of Las Vegas and on the foot of the McCullough Range. Great desert tortoise habitat. pucweb1.state.nv.us/PDF/AxImages/D…

Significant winter storm is still slated for Monday-Wednesday, with the brunt on Tuesday, with heavy rain and snow, and strong winds. Here are the latest forecast maps! #CAwx

The illegal shipping container wall currently being placed in the Coronado National Forest in Arizona by Gov Ducey and @AshBritt_News will destroy wildlife habitat where bear cubs like this cross regularly.

This is reckless and illegal behavior!

Day 6 #NoSolarTax The White House has estimated that the IRA will lead to an ADDITIONAL 930k homes going solar in CA over the next 10 years. A bad NEM3 will mean saying no to over: * 7.44GW of clean energy * $22.32B added to the state GDP * $6.7B in tax credits to Californians

So are we going to expand Las Vegas urban sprawl, or what?

@momortadella @DrJittebug Good question. I’m used to seeing tarantula hawks with orange wings. This has orange on its body.

@DrJittebug @DesertAdvocate Is that a tarantula hawk?

I guess it's time to bury #Arachtober

@azgfdTucson Thank you!!

“Desert Fence Busters,” a partnership of gov. agencies & local conservationists, will again tear down old barbed wire fencing Sat. near the wildlife underpass/overpass on Oracle Road. The obsolete fencing impedes wildlife movement between the Catalina & Tortolita Mtns. File video

We went from discovering what humans dumped in Lake Mead (bodies in barrels dumped by the mob), to discovering what humans dumped in the desert before we built the Hoover Dam and submerged hundreds of square miles of desert under newly-formed Lake Mead.

Trade-mark ash tree (Fraxinus velutina), Ash Meadows National Wildlife Refuge, Nevada

Very proud of our @Sunrun team who worked tirelessly to make this happen. 👏👏👏 “Generation right next to where the energy is needed is not just resilient, clean, and affordable, it’s economically a better way to build out the system of the future.” - @MaryGPowell

“There is no distance between the @NRDC and their utility allies. You call the utilities to talk to them about NEM3 and they refer you to the NRDC.” - @EdwardNorton #empower2022

“If the only person who uses a lawn is the guy who mows it, why do you have a lawn?” Californians are raking in tens of thousands of dollars in rebates to get rid of their grass. cnn.it/3fB0zRh

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Breaking: Footage of AZ Gov. Doug Ducey's shipping container border wall being illegally placed on federal land in jaguar critical habitat. If completed 3,000 containers will stretch 10 miles and cost $95 million. That could buy 900,000 school books or 23 million school lunches.