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2009 JULY NEWS

Optimism spreads that fewer state parks will shut by Michael Gardener, U-T Sacremento Bureau | July 27th State parks are not out of the woods.Yet there is a growing sense of relief on the trail and around the campfire now that Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's proposal to close 220 of the state's 279 parks will be downsized considerably.

New developments give Sunrise opponents hope by Onell R. Soto, San Diego Union Tribune | San Diego,CA,USA In legal challenges, they say that federal and state officials ignored key ... SDG&E proposal to run the line across the Anza-Borrego Desert State Park. ...

WildLife By Chris Clarke, DesertBlog While wildlife in California is in no way restricted to State Parks — the BLM, USFS and National Park Service together administer about 50 million acres of wildlife-watching land in California, for example — the State Parks system does include unique wildlife areas from Anza-Borrego's ... California Desert Conservation Area Left Out of National Landscape Conservation Act Afton Canyon, just one of the many spots in the California desert left out of today's passage of the. ...

Life of Cahuilla elder to be celebrated The Desert Sun - Palm Springs, CA ,USA | July 7 2009 ... as a historical adviser to include a line on California State Historical Landmark No. ... which was near the border of Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, ...

“MAGNIFICENT MILKY WAY” WITH ASTRONOMER DENNIS MAMMANA AT BORREGO SPRINGS AUG. 15 By Admin | July 7 2009 Few celestial sights are as stunning as an August desert sky seen from Borrego Springs. On Saturday August 15, join famed astronomer and night sky photographer Dennis Mammana for a astronomical treat...

Stellar By Admin | July 1 2009 After dinner at the Borrego Springs Resort, Mammana gave a presentation that covered both the meaning of the summer solstice and the things that should be visible in that moonless night's sky. Then we trooped out beyond the tennis ...