Photo gallery: Los Angeles Aqueduct
Posted on | August 22, 2009 | 1 Comment
Helianthus annuus, aka sunflowers, bloom by the roadside in Owens Valley. Photo: Chris Austin. Aquafornia offers a photo tour by Austin of Owens Valley and the Los Angeles Aqueduct system. To see it, click here. To read Emily Green on the smiley face of nature, click here.
Goodbye to all that
Posted on | August 21, 2009 | No Comments
Photo: Kirk McKoy, LA Times
GOT grass but don’t want it? Or the mowers? Or the blowers? Click here for a Los Angeles Times piece on how to get rid of it.
LAT Home editor Craig Nakano links to it this week after spotting a Wall Street Journal “love note to Scotts Miracle-Gro.“
Finally, with apologies for the self-promotion, there is also a link to the Dry Garden column, which will pick up next week with a visit to Tree of Life Nursery in San Juan Capistrano. Links will come up when the Times publishes it.
Pipeline? What pipeline?
Posted on | August 21, 2009 | 4 Comments
IF August 20th in Las Vegas proved anything, it’s what can happen when a publicity stunt backfires.
What had been hyped by a local newspaper and Pat Mulroy, general manager of the Southern Nevada Water Authority, as an “up-or-down” vote on the Las Vegas pipeline project soon gave way to embarrassed disclaimers from members of the SNWA board. They were ”not voting upon starting to build a pipeline” assured director after director but rather “voting upon continuing a process to pursue environmental permits.”
The meeting room was packed with Nevadans there to beg the SNWA board for mercy or sing the praises of White Pine County, the place of springs and seeps that SNWA’s proposed 300-mile pipeline would tap most heavily (photos above). After 20 years of pursuing the pipeline project, SNWA general manager Pat Mulroy has the stomach to face down pudgy-cheeked, cap-in-hand octogenarian ranchers whose family farms her pipeline will surely dewater. But yesterday in Las Vegas, her relatively new board did not. Mulroy won her “up-or-down vote” to keep on doing her job for another day, but the 40 speakers from the estimated 300 protestors present won hearts and minds.
For what the SNWA board heard and said, click here
Tags: chance of rain > Emily Green > pipeline > Southern Nevada Water Authority
Vegas blinks
Posted on | August 20, 2009 | 3 Comments
BREAKING NEWS: The much vaunted “up or down” vote on the proposed Great Basin pipeline that General Manager Pat Mulroy reportedly demanded of her board at the Southern Nevada Water Authority today descended into a long, polite and more than a little bit bizarre political retreat. Rather than confront her board to commit to the pipeline, as it was reported that Mulroy would do by the Las Vegas Review-Journal, Mulroy instead asked it for permission to do what she was doing already: Cooperating with the ongoing US Bureau of Land Management environmental review process and hammering out a Snake Valley monitoring agreement.
Click here for more on how up or down became steady on
Tags: chance of rain > Emily Green > pipeline > Southern Nevada Water Authority
Mark your calendar
Posted on | August 19, 2009 | No Comments
THERE is one more week to see the Ocean and Surf Photography of Brown W. Cannon III
at Casa Romantica Cultural Center and Gardens in San Clemente. Or click here for a full calendar of dry garden events, including a special class in Arts and Science for Kids at the Theodore Payne Foundation, Monday morning garden chats at the Buena Vista Audubon Nature Center, behind-the-scene tours at Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden, LADWP sprinkler clinics and sky gazing in Huntington Beach.
North American Native Plant Societies
After the lawn
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