A Controversial Plan to Drain Water From the Desert? Go for It, Trump Administration Says
Chris Clarke remembers a billboard on the side of highway 15 outside of Barstow, on the way to Las Vegas: "The Boredom Ends in 150 Miles." Clarke, a former journalist who now works for the National Parks Conservation Association, could never understand it. What's so interesting about a place filled with people and money and electric lights? You can find that anywhere.
To Clarke, the desert is far more exciting. Some people see it as a place to do things you can't do in the city — shoot guns, drive a dune buggy. Others are drawn to the vastness, its quiet emptiness. You can look out and see a dozen miles of uninterrupted landscape in any direction, like being on the ocean. But to true desert evangelists like Clarke, there is so much more.
"Out here, the more you look the more there is," he says. "It's just layers upon layers of ecological richness.
"The desert," he continues, "is a rainforest without rain." And the North American deserts, he says, are "the largest undeveloped ecosystems in the lower 48 states."
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