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Lawsuit Aims to Help Amargosa Voles

The Center just sued the Bureau of Land Management to protect highly imperiled Amargosa voles from unmanaged human activity in their protected critical habitat. Off-road vehicles, unattended campfires, and people using the marshy lands for toilet functions have severely degraded the mouselike animals’ tiny remaining range — near a popular hot spring outside Tecopa, California.

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All my pains are lifted Paradise is mine All my wounds are mended Paradise is mine

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Tecopa, California

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Untitled (Tecopa G), Noriko Furunishi, 2006

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Tecopa, California by Jeff Sullivan https://flic.kr/p/2cZP1WW

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Spent the afternoon about China Ranch, near Tecopa, California. It’s a family owned and operated small farm, a lush piece of greenery amidst the forbidding Mojave Desert near Southern Death Valley. There’s cottonwoods and willows by a wandering stream, date palms and abundant wildlife, all hidden away down a winding road into the hidden oasis.

I stopped in the shop first for a date shake, which are amazing, because they close at 5pm and I didn’t want to miss it. There’s a great hike to the Amargosa River and about the Old Spanish Trail complete with the remains of the Tonopah and Tidewater Railroad and structures from a century ago built to mine the borax fields. It’s a good time to go before it gets too hot though don’t expect a raging river, it’s more like a series of streams coming together, but I go mostly for the date shake anyway!

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Tecopa, California.

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Tecopa Hot Springs || California