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As seen in: 90 Miles from Needles: the Desert Protection Podcast, Medium, The Guardian, Memory Studies, Business Wire, Substack, Taylor & Francis Online, Lulu Press, Inc., Daily Mercury, IrishCentral, The Desert Sun (Palm Springs, CA) and
Covers:  science, environment, sonoran desert, politics, endangered species, desert conservation, mojave desert, renewable energy, southern california, california
Doesn't Cover: high-end tourism
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Chris Clarke’s Journalist Portfolio

Ivanpah Solar Project Has a Bad Burned Bird Problem

Ivanpah Solar Project Has a Bad Burned Bird Problem

A solar energy project in the California desert seems to have injured and killed a surprising number of birds…

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Water Birds Turning Up Dead at Solar Projects in the Desert

Water Birds Turning Up Dead at Solar Projects in the Desert

This story has been updated.] Big desert solar installations have a problem: They seem to be imperiling water…

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Killing a Condor is Okay at Wind Project, Feds Say in About-Face Move

Killing a Condor is Okay at Wind Project, Feds Say in About-Face Move

In a reversal that has outraged environmentalists, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) announced it will…

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TED Talk Teaches Us to Disparage the Desert

TED Talk Teaches Us to Disparage the Desert

I've often noticed that many environmentally inclined people dislike deserts. Sometimes it's as benign as a m…

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The battered border

The battered border

"Whenever the soil is disturbed, there's a faint color change." Mike Crelia peers at the tracks of workboots …

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Articles

Local cadets earn private pilot certificates through civil air patrol wings flight scholarship program

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By Chris Clarke
| Teton Valley News Verified
The Teton Valley Composite Squadron is proud to recognize the accomplishments of Cadets Sydney Otis and Tegan Jacoby, who have successfully earned their FAA Private Pilot Certificates through the Civil Air Patrol’s Cadet Wings Scholarship Program. The scholarship program provides selected cadets with financial assistance and flight training opportunities designed to help develop the next generation of aerospace leaders and aviators.
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Letters From the Desert

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By Chris Clarke
| Letters From the Desert
We’re not back in the house yet. All our belongings are in some warehouse, somewhere, each item in some undetermined state of clean or written off, and we await the next stages of smoke remediation. But I’m here most days anyway. My office/recording studio, a 10 by 20 annex on the back of our garage, was unaffected by the fire, and it’s a comfort to be there with the dogs during the day. It’s gotten warm in the last few days: too warm for sustained exertion in the yard.
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Letters From the Desert

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By Chris Clarke
| Letters From the Desert
I’m gonna be honest with you all: I don’t know how I’ll be after Heart is gone. We had a vet appointment this morning. There was no real news. She has a new five-centimeter mass on her left shoulder, firmly attached and growing quickly. It wasn’t there three weeks ago. Her soft tissue sarcoma on her right front leg has grown, but not much. Her lungs sound clear, her pulse is strong, and her lymph nodes are not inflamed.
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What was your first job as a journalist?

I started out in 1989 as a volunteer writer for monthly newsletter of the Ecology Center in Berkeley, CA. Started as editor there in 1992.

Have you ever used a typewriter?

Yes, but I abandoned them for word processing in the early 1980s.

How is social media changing news?

Making it faster, more democratic, more prone to rumor

Awards

Los Angeles Press Club Award

2012 - Advocacy Journalism

Tied for Third Place for a series on the environmental issues facing the California deserts

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