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Conglomerate Mesa (Joshua Trees! Desert Ecosystems! Gold Mining!) with Wendy Schneider
Manage episode 367781095 series 3489945
When I first heard about Conglomerate Mesa, located on BLM land right outside of Death Valley, I had no idea how much ground a single episode could cover. This one's got everything, including what makes a place a desert, a little bit of geology, Joshua trees, the General Mining Act of 1872, juniper pinyon ecosystems, the rain shadow effect, a very lovable, fuzzy-tailed rodent, a daisy that is only found on about one square mile of the entire planet, soil that is alive, the historic and contemporary importance of this mesa to Native people, and the fight to keep a Canadian gold mining company from quite literally digging the whole place up and spraying cyanide all over it.
Some useful links:
Center for Biological Diversity on Conglomerate Mesa
National Geographic on Deserts
1961 UC Berkeley Video on Native People Processing Pine Nuts
Smithsonian Article on Joshua Trees
Sierra Club on Conglomerate Mesa
Inyo Rock Daisy LA Times Article
You can find me on Patreon at www.patreon.com/michellefullner
Follow me on Instagram or TikTok @goldenstatenaturalist
My website is www.goldenstatenaturalist.com
The theme song is called "i dunno" by grapes and can be found here.
48 episodes
Manage episode 367781095 series 3489945
When I first heard about Conglomerate Mesa, located on BLM land right outside of Death Valley, I had no idea how much ground a single episode could cover. This one's got everything, including what makes a place a desert, a little bit of geology, Joshua trees, the General Mining Act of 1872, juniper pinyon ecosystems, the rain shadow effect, a very lovable, fuzzy-tailed rodent, a daisy that is only found on about one square mile of the entire planet, soil that is alive, the historic and contemporary importance of this mesa to Native people, and the fight to keep a Canadian gold mining company from quite literally digging the whole place up and spraying cyanide all over it.
Some useful links:
Center for Biological Diversity on Conglomerate Mesa
National Geographic on Deserts
1961 UC Berkeley Video on Native People Processing Pine Nuts
Smithsonian Article on Joshua Trees
Sierra Club on Conglomerate Mesa
Inyo Rock Daisy LA Times Article
You can find me on Patreon at www.patreon.com/michellefullner
Follow me on Instagram or TikTok @goldenstatenaturalist
My website is www.goldenstatenaturalist.com
The theme song is called "i dunno" by grapes and can be found here.
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