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Spring 2008 Editor: Larry Hogue
LETTER FROM THE PRESIDENT
The Spell of Sacred Land
Many people speak of places, points on the globe, which
they regard as special. Great literature is replete with lyrical
tributes to locales emotionally moving to the author, be they
whole landscapes, specific spots or man-made structures. So-
called “nature writers” make it their craft to interpret the
concept of “place” for an eager reading public.
As conservationists or public lands activists I suggest that
we are especially susceptible, or perhaps simply sensitive, to the
lure and charm of such places, real or imagined. Who of us
cannot recall a tree house, a beach, mountain or forest which
imbued us with a love of, an allegiance to, the land – to place?
For a very long time after I started hiking and camping I
had not considered that the concept of the sacred could really
quite apply outside of a religious context until I read the ideas
of two very different but highly skilled writers: Barry Lopez
and Edward Abbey. Writing his masterpiece Arctic Dreams
some 25 years ago, Lopez masterfully delved into landscape at
its many levels of meaning both to the indigenous peoples of
the Arctic and to the rest of us residing here in a more urbanized
world. To read his words carefully is to begin to fathom how
humankind grew up with the land as the very foundation of its
world, the matrix from which our minds and bodies evolved.
Cactus Ed Abbey, the old curmudgeon and enemy of every
developer and get-rich scam artist out there in the West, railed
ceaselessly against the desecration of our southwestern
landscapes in the form of ignorance, thoughtlessness, greed and
industrial tourism. A more or less avowed atheist, Cactus Ed
nonetheless spoke endearingly of a secular paradise here on
earth in the form of wild landscapes unsullied by the human
hand. He knew the poignant feeling of “sacred” as applied to
the earth even if he dismissed its religious overtones.
As for myself, the term “sacred” is reserved for those very
few places I have encountered that inspire a heartfelt, almost
painful, veneration coupled with a sense of deep connection so
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rare and poignant as to rise to the level of a quasi-religious
experience. It is a gem in the pantheon of spots I cherish.
In the California desert I have explored for 30 years now,
there is a special place, a real place of sand and rocks, sycamore
trees and cholla cactus. And it has a compound name: the
Collins Valley/Cougar Canyon complex located in the rugged
northwestern portion of Anza-Borrego Desert State Park. In
January of 1978 I backpacked up Cougar Canyon with a
companion and my heart nearly burst with awe. To this day, I
have never exceeded the joy I felt that day in the wild.
One gets a similar sense of the sacred when viewing the
images in a remarkable new book from Sunbelt Publications,
Anza-Borrego: A Photographic Journey, reviewed in this issue.
The book, just out in February, is an explicit response to the
proposed Sunrise Powerlink, and is intended to encourage a
greater appreciation of the landscapes that would be decimated
by this awful example of industrial extremism.
Surely we will only fight to protect the places we hold
sacred. When we hear of proposed uranium mines on the
borders of Grand Canyon, an expansion of an OHV park that
would virtually assure the destruction of artifacts and trails that
have lain in place for thousands of years, or reductions in
critical habitat for a variety of threatened species – these are
calls to action to protect the places we hold dear. And when we
hear that Americans, and especially children, are spending less
time outdoors because of growing “videophilia,” this is a call to
get our children out into wild country, to allow them those
experiences that foster a sacred sense of place.
As you’ll read in this, our 200th issue of El Paisano, DPC is
at work on all these fronts, fighting to protect desert lands that
are threatened by development or out-of-control recreation, but
also working to educate the next generation of desert
enthusiasts in the Imperial Valley.
What’s your sacred place? Perhaps we can share it around
the next bend in a lonely desert canyon somewhere.
Nick Ervin, President
 BOOK REVIEW
Anza-Borrego: A Photographic Journey by Ernie Cowan
Review by Larry Hogue
In 1960, David Brower and the Sierra Club revolutionized
environmental rhetoric and debate with the publication of their
first Exhibit Format coffee table photo book, This is the Amer-
ican Earth by Ansel Adams and Nancy Newhall. The series
would go on to feature such landmark works as “In Wildness is
the Preservation of the World” (with photos by Eliot Porter, text
from Henry David Thoreau, and an introduction by Joseph
Wood Krutch) and The Place No One Knew: Glen Canyon on
the Colorado (again by Porter, with text from Thoreau, Wallace
Stegner, Owen Wister, Loren Eiseley, and others). The books
combined compelling narrative about the natural world with
stunning images presented in a large format in which, according
to Brower, the eye was required “to move about within the
boundaries of the image, not encompass it all in one glance.”
They were much more than collections of pretty nature images
but calls to action that helped propel the Sierra Club in its ten-
fold growth from 1952 to 1969, making it one of the nation’s
(and eventually the world’s) foremost environmental groups.*
Following in the Sierra Club’s tradition, Sunbelt Books, in
cooperation with the Anza-Borrego Foundation and California
State Parks, has released Anza-Borrego: A Photographic
Journey by award-winning photojournalist Ernie Cowan. The
publication also has an explicit conservation purpose: to
highlight the landscapes that are at risk from SDG&E’s
proposed Sunrise Powerlink, an energy superhighway that
would cross Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, destroying
wilderness viewsheds over 90,000 acres. At 96 pages, and
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nearly the size of the Sierra Club’s coffee table series, the book
is a welcome addition to the genre.
Arranged as a tour of the park, the book covers some of
Anza-Borrego’s most popular spots, such as Font’s Point,
Collins Valley and Borrego Palm Canyon, as well as lesser
known areas in the Carrizo Badlands. While sunrise and sunset
shots are abundant, Cowan captures the desert in all its moods,
from the harsh light of noon to the somber tones of an overcast
day. Some of the book’s most arresting photos spotlight the
stars of Anza-Borrego’s nature show, the annual wildflowers.
Suitable to the book’s purpose, the abundant beauty and
changing moods of the Anza-Borrego landscape are allowed to
speak for themselves, without undue intrusion by the artist.
While photographers like Ansel Adams and Galen Rowell set
out to change our way of seeing the natural world, Cowan’s
intention seems simply to introduce us to this place of wonders,
and to encourage our love of it. “Spend some time,” he says in
his preface, “let the sand get in your shoes, and learn the
desert’s little ways.” That’s the challenge in attempting to
“speak a word for nature” – to allow nature to speak for itself.
Likewise, the text is unobtrusive, bringing out just the right
amount of natural history detail or emotional undercurrent in
the photographs, without being didactic. Take, for instance, this
description of a common desert inhabitant: “Rarely flying and
often running swiftly ahead of hikers, roadrunners are members
of the cuckoo family, distinguished by their X-shaped foot-
prints. Curious and animated, roadrunners are a delight to
observe as they bob and weave through underbrush in search of
snakes, lizards, and insects.” The conservation message is im-
plicit throughout, rather than driven home with a sledgehammer.
Here’s a description of a typically wild scene: “Views like this,
that have not been altered by man, allow the mind to see what
others have seen since the first footprints were scuffed into the
desert sands.”
The “Parks Are Forever” message is further underscored by
Diana Lindsay’s introduction covering the history of the park
and the conservation visionaries who helped create it, and by
the quote from Frederick Law Olmsted’s 1929 Report of the
State Park Survey of California on the back cover: “Certain
cont. next page
TAKE ACTION ON THE SUNRISE POWERLINK!
The hearings are over but you can send written com-
ments to the California Public Utilities Commission until
April 11, to: CPUC/BLM
c/o Aspen Environmental Group
235 Montgomery Street, Suite 935
San Francisco, CA 94104
Fax: (866) 711-3106
Email: sunrise@aspeneg.com
Points to make to the commissioners:
• Heed the Draft EIR and reject this damaging line.
• There are many better alternatives to SPL.
• Real green energy is local green energy.
Go to www.dpcinc.org/_sunrisepower.shtml for more.
desert areas have a distinctive and subtle charm, in part depend-
ent on spaciousness, solitude, and escape from the evidence of
human control and manipulation of the earth, a charm of con-
stantly growing value as the rest of the earth becomes more
completely dominated by man’s activities.” With Anza-Borrego
facing onslaughts from all sides (and from both within and
without the State Park system), this book serves as a timely
reminder of what seem like forgotten values.
At $19.95, the book is a great bargain, and proceeds go to
benefit the educational programs of the Anza-Borrego Foun-
dation and Institute. Order directly from the publisher at:
www.sunbeltbooks.com.
*Info on David Brower, the Sierra Club, and their Exhibit
Format Series from Finis Dunaway. Natural Visions: The Power
of Images in American Environmental Reform. 2005, University
of Chicago Press. (www.press.uchicago.edu.)
DESERT NOTES
Brief news items from around the deserts…
If you thought uranium mining was just a quaint legacy in
the history of Grand Canyon National Park – one that made the
waters along parts of the Tonto Trail undrinkable for the
foreseeable future but otherwise a thing of the past – you’ll
have to think again. A British company has been approved to
explore for uranium in the Kaibab National Forest within a few
miles of the South Rim. As the New York Times and other
newspapers have pointed out, the Forest Service had little
choice but to approve the exploratory drilling because of
another quaint legacy from the old days: the Mining Law of
1872. This law gives corporations – both foreign and domestic,
but usually foreign – carte blanche to rip apart and poison our
public lands, earning huge profits while returning little to the
U.S. Treasury. With metals prices surging and mining claims all
across the western U.S. sky-rocketing, it’s more important than
ever to send this archaic dinosaur to the dustbin of history,
where it belongs. With pressure from groups like EarthWorks
(www.miningreform.org), the U.S. House of Representatives
passed a reform bill this winter, but the Senate has yet to act on
it. Seems like a good time to pick up the phone or write a letter
to your senator. And one senator – a guy from the Grand
Canyon state who is also running for president – should be
especially willing to hear from all Americans on this issue.
Meanwhile, the exploratory drilling in the Kaibab is being
fought on other grounds. The Center for Biological Diversity
has protested the Forest Service’s decision based on legal
problems with it, and legislation to ban mining near Grand
Canyon National Park is being explored. … At February’s
Conference on Global Warming and the California Desert,
bighorn sheep expert Dr. John Wehausen made the most explicit
call yet to reconnect the isolated and fragmented populations of
what was once a single “metapopulation” of bighorn sheep in
the California Desert. This would involve building wide, open
bridges over freeways and canals, which have proven to be
effective barriers to gene flow between sheep living in separate
mountain ranges. This gene flow may be vital to the long-term
survival of the species as it faces an uncertain future of global
climate change. (See www.dpcinc.org/_educationbulletins.shtml
for a report on the conference.) The bridges would be expens-
ive, but money may be available in the form of Federal High-
way ISTEA funds, which can be spent to mitigate the effects of
highways on wildlife. Certainly, this is a better use for these
funds than expanding an offroad vehicle park. … In another
setback for species it was meant to protect, the US Fish &
Wildlife Service has released a final rule in yet one more critical
habitat reduction. This time it’s habitat for Peirson’s milkvetch,
that purple-flowering plant in the pea family that struggles to
make its home amidst the motorized onslaught of the Imperial
Sand Dunes Recreation Area. This is just one of many decisions
that prompted one blog commenter to ask, “Is the Fish & Wild-
life Service on crack?” (Hey, we didn’t say it, but it makes one
wonder…) The bottom line: under this approach to the Endan-
gered Species Act, only those species that don’t get in the way
of our industrial culture will be protected. … BLM-El Centro is
offering two wilderness hikes this spring. The first will explore
the North Algodones Dunes Wilderness on Sat. Mar. 8. The
second, on April 12, will take the Pepperwood Trail into the
Sawtooth Wilderness. The hikes are free but space must be re-
served by calling the hike reservation hotline. Visit
www.blm.gov/ca/st/en/fo/elcentro/recreation/hiking.html for
vital info and phone number. ... In an unsettling, but not-too-
surprising finding, researchers discovered that nature-based
recreation is on the decline, not only in the U.S. but also in
Japan and Spain. They linked the decline to increasing indoor,
video-based recreation, which they term “videophilia.” The
study, commissioned by The Nature Conservancy and published
in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, found
an 18% to 25% decrease in various types of outdoor recreation,
including hiking, camping, hunting and fishing. Researchers
Oliver Pergams and Patricia Zaradic conclude that declining
contact with nature leads to decreasing concern for conservation
and biological diversity. That’s why DPC is increasing its
support for outdoor education programs in the Imperial Valley, a
place where many children never set foot outside of the agricul-
tural and urban zone to experience the desert in its natural state.
(See page 6 for more on these programs.)
Grand Canyon, one of our nation’s landmarks under threat from the 1872
Mining Law. Photo by Larry Hogue
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 CONSERVATION CORNER Anza-Borrego State Park and the Colorado Desert District of
By Terry Weiner State Parks have been cut out of the process. Meanwhile DPC
Conservation & Imperial County Projects Coordinator has teamed up with ABF to share costs of conducting air quality
surveys, monitoring particulate pollution in the Ocotillo Wells
and Borrego Valley areas. (On some weekends this winter the
dust has been so bad that some Borrego Springs residents have
left town temporarily to protect their health, and others are con-
sidering moving out entirely.) We are also collaborating on the
production of videos from our on-the-ground monitoring as an
educational and consciousness-raising tool for various agency
staff and for other target audiences. You can view the first video
by going to YouTube.com and searching for “Desert Cahuilla.”
The Desert Cahuilla Area will continue to suffer damage
until an appropriate management plan can be crafted. Unless we
can persuade DPR to take interim protective measures such as
establishing and enforcing limitations on off road travel in the
area, this unmitigated destruction will last for up to three years
until a plan is approved. We will work in every possible way to
gather evidence that supports the plan to place the management
of a large part or all of the Desert Cahuilla Area under the man-
agement of Anza-Borrego Desert State Park.

Fresh tracks entering an area clearly posted as closed, in a parcel

owned by the Anza-Borrego Foundation. Photo courtesy ABFI

During these first two months of this new year, your Imperial
County Projects and Conservation Coordinator has been
particularly focused on actions involving the Desert Cahuilla
Prehistoric Area, about which most of you have heard a great
deal. The Desert Protective Council continues to work closely
with the Center for Biological Diversity (CBD), the Anza-
Borrego Foundation (ABF), the Sierra Club and concerned citi-
zens to urge the California Department of Parks and Recreation
(DPR) to take action to protect this gorgeous area from ongoing
damage from unmanaged off road recreation. As those of you
who read our DPC website know, the DPR released their Notice
of Preparation (NOP) of an Environmental Impact Report for
the Desert Cahuilla Area in December. The NOP was lacking in
a number of ways. DPC and CBD submitted detailed comments
and suggestions regarding issues that must be addressed in the
crafting of management plan alternatives for Desert Cahuilla.
We have conducted two monitoring trips to the area this
year to document ongoing damage from ORV activity with
photos and video footage. Ocotillo Wells State Vehicular
Recreation Area and Anza-Borrego Desert State Park are
supposed to be collaborating on weekend patrols, on contracting
for natural and cultural resource surveys, and on publication and
A desert lily, cut down in the prime of life by an errant vehicle in the
distribution of educational materials about the area, but staff of Desert Cahuilla Area. Photo by Deborah Knapp

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What can you do? While we had a productive letter writing
campaign leading up to the close of the comment period on
February 13th (see Craig Deutsche’s citizen comment letter,
below, as an example), we are asking you to continue writing
letters to Director of State Parks Ruth Coleman, with a c.c. to
Secretary for Resources Mike Chrisman. State your concern
(outrage) about the irreparable damage this new State Parks
acquisition is suffering from unmanaged ORV activity and that
you want DPR to take action to stop it. See our web site to find
out what to do: www.dpcinc.org/_cahuilla.shtml.
I want to encourage all of you with an interest in the
perennial topic of how best to manage Off Road Vehicle Rec-
reation on our public lands, and how to control it on private
lands, to consider attending a daylong conference on April 5 in
the town of Joshua Tree. DPC is one of the sponsors of the
conference. Please see the announcement and invitation to this
event on our web site: www.dpcinc.org/_events.shtml. The
keynote speaker is Dr. Howard Wilshire, a long-time DPC
Advisory Panel member, retired USGS Geologist, respected soil
scientist and author of many papers on the effects of off-road
vehicle recreation on desert soils. Brent Schoradt, Policy
Director of the California Wilderness Coalition and Karen
Schambach, Western Director of Public Employees for Environ-
mental Responsibility and author of California Off Highway
Vehicles: In the Money and Out of Control, will also do presen-
tations on recent OHV legislation and where we need to go
from here. The conference will be a wonderful opportunity to
participate in discussions with local policy makers, represent-
atives of the law enforcement agencies and BLM personnel, and
to mingle with local desert residents who have successfully
organized to help craft a County ORV management ordinance.
Whether or not you are able to attend this event, please do
circulate the invitation to
folks who may be interested
and feel free to send a
donation to cover the costs of
putting on this event. Contact
Community ORV Watch at
orvwatch@orvwatch.com or
Morongo Basin Conservation
Association, ATTN: COW,
P.O. Box 218, Twentynine
Palms, CA 92277.
As always, I thank you
for your support of DPC and
invite you to call or email me
with your desert thoughts and
suggestions. (619) 255-6111
(office); (619) 342-5524;
terryweiner@sbcglobal.net.
A network of scars left by vehicles mars the fragile landscape of the Desert Cahuilla Area. Who knows what
clues to the region’s cultural and natural history have already been lost? Photo by Phil Farquharson
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DESERT CAHUILLA COMMENT LETTER
by Craig Deutsche
Ed. Note: Something about the CEQA process seems geared to
frustrate citizen input. Perhaps it’s all the acronyms: CEQA,
NOP, DEIR, etc. What is CEQA anyway? It’s the California
Environmental Quality Act, and its basic intention is to insure
that policy makers and the public are fully informed about a
given project’s environmental impacts.. It also allows average
citizens to voice their opinions and provide information about
the impacts a project could have. While it can seem like an
arcane process, we thought Craig Deutsche’s letter on the
upcoming Truckhaven/Desert Cahuilla General Plan was a
moving, fact-filled expression of his concern for this special
place – an outstanding example of how citizens can “speak a
word for nature.” Though the official comment period has
ended, we’re asking you to continue writing letters to Parks
Director Ruth Coleman and State Resources Secretary Mike
Chrisman.
I thank you for an opportunity to comment on the prep-
aration of the Truckhaven/Desert Cahuilla General Plan. The
area in question is a jewel of the Colorado Desert, and planning
for its future must be carried out carefully, in full compliance
with the law, and with extensive public participation. The land
belongs to the people of the state, not to a select group of users.
I have visited this area a number of times. I have seen the
fish traps along the ancient Cahuilla shoreline, the sleeping
circles, and the old trails. I have talked with a number of
archeologists who are distressed that the resources there have
not yet been studied or even catalogued properly. Please, these
objects must be protected; they must not become collateral
damage produced by vehicular recreation. Signs and fencing are
needed until inventories have been completed, and routes
leading to the most significant archeological resources must be
closed or damage will inevitably follow.
I visited the Desert Cahuilla area specifically last February
17, 2007, and while I slept in Palm Wash, fireworks were in the
sky several miles to the west (WITHIN the boundaries of Anza-
Borrego State Park). Sand rails and motorcycles raced up and
down the wash in the dark, and I was obliged to sleep within
three feet of my vehicle to be certain that I would not be struck.
While off-road recreation is sometimes touted as family recre-
ation, I would be quite unhappy if my children were to learn the
lessons that were apparent that evening. On the next day, Feb.
18, I drove several of the washes in the area and observed vehi-
cle tracks going up hills, climbing out of the washes, and in
some places going cross-country. All of this travel was illegal. It
is rather an understatement to say that management of the area
has been very lax. Signs, educational materials, and visible
enforcement have been promised while the management plan is
under preparation, but they have not been delivered. These
failures need to be rectified, or there will soon be nothing left
that is worth planning for.
Given the historic and prehistoric features in the Desert
Cahuilla area, given its extraordinary scenic value, given its
proximity to the Anza-Borrego State Park, and given the
intentions that initiated the purchase and transfer of these lands,
they should become an integral part of the Anza-Borrego Park.
Vehicle traffic should be limited to specific, authorized routes.
Open play areas for off-road vehicles are not appropriate unless
it can be clearly demonstrated that environmental damage
would not follow – very likely a difficult position to defend.
The alternatives presented in the EIR that will accompany the
management plan need to cover a full range of activities and
uses. These must not be slanted toward off-road recreation
solely, or to other specific user groups. Protection of resources –
archeological, recreational, biological, and scenic – must be
prominent in all of the alternatives.
Finally I urge you to make your planning process
transparent, broadly based, and open to the public. Meetings
need to be publicized widely through a variety of media and
sufficiently far in advance that all who are concerned may
attend. Comment periods need to be sufficiently long and
sufficiently publicized that a truly representative public
may respond. It is important that a variety of agencies be
involved in the planning – the state parks, the ORV
division, the Colorado Desert District. In the long run, a
narrowly focused approach to planning will become a
failure.
The formulation of a management plan for the Desert
Cahuilla area represents an opportunity to serve the people
of the state and to demonstrate the competence and
integrity of its agencies. I urge you to seize this
opportunity.
Sincerely, Craig Deutsche
Find out how you can write your own letter to protect this
precious area: www.dpcinc.org/_cahuilla.shtml. A fossil sand dollar, just one of the many wonders of the Colorado Desert, which
students can experience on DPC-sponsored field trips. Photo by Larry Hogue
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IMPERIAL COUNTY PROJECTS
by Terry Weiner
This spring, DPC has funded several new desert field trips
for students from second grade through high school in Imperial
County’s Holtville School District. Thesetrips are part of our
expanding program to allow Imperial County kids to experience
the wonders of the Imperial Valley deserts.
• Second graders will visit Shell Canyon in the Coyote
Mountains with parent coordinator Susan Massey,
accompanied by a paleontology volunteer from the
Begole Center for Archaeology in Anza-Borrego.
• Holtville High School teacher Bonnie Sorensen will be
taking her students on a field trip to the Salton Sea
Recreation Area for a guided nature walk. These students
won the solar-powered vehicle challenge at Imperial
Valley’s Earth Day 2007 and their prize was a set of
solar distillation equipment. After the walk, they’ll use
the equipment to test the feasibility of purifying Salton
Sea water with energy from the sun.
• Sandra Duran’s fifth graders have a field trip planned to
eastern Imperial County to explore the old Tumco Town
site just west of the Colorado River and to the nearby
Algodones Dunes the same day, accompanied by one of
the El Centro Bureau of Land Management’s natural
resource specialists.
• Finally, DPC has just funded field trips to Anza-Borrego
for 140 fifth graders in four classes, who will tour the
visitor center and hike up Palm Canyon.
It’s been a growth year for DPC’s desert education pro-
grams. In the future we hope to involve more Imperial County
School Districts, and to develop environmental education and
science curricula focused on specific spots in the Imperial
Valley Deserts. The goal is to make it easy for teachers to get
their kids out of the classroom and into the desert, at the same
time educating them in science topics that fit both the California
science framework and the specific textbooks already in use. In
the process, we hope these students will gain both knowledge
of, and appreciation for, the natural habitats that surround them.
 IN MEMORIAM DESERT PROTECTIVE COUNCIL – WHO WE ARE
We have the sad news to Nick Ervin, President
report that our dear Geoffrey Smith, Vice President
friend and conservation
Secretary – Open
colleague BYRON
ANDERSON died in Larry Klaasen, Treasurer
December at his home in Martha Bertles, Fifth Officer
El Cajon. Byron had Terry Weiner, Imperial Projects & Conservation Coordinator
been battling cancer for Shirley Harshenin, Webmistress – www.nutheadproductions.com
the past year and a half.
Larry Hogue, Communications Consultant
He was a former
Executive Committee
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INSIDE THIS ISSUE

Anza-Borrego: A Photographic Journey ...... page 2
Desert Notes.................................................. page 3
Conservation Corner ..................................... page 4
Imperial County Projects .............................. page 6
In Memoriam: Byron Anderson.................... page 7

FAVORITE DESERT PLACES: VIEW FROM QUEEN MOUNTAIN, JOSHUA TREE N.P.