Our Top Ten Tips for Successful Living in the Morongo Basin
If you're a longtime desert resident, you probably understand that living in harmony with the desert environment creates an enviable quality of life. You may already be following all of these tips, but take a look in case there is something more you can do. If you are new to desert living, you may find some significant differences in day-to-day life than what you're used to. By following our Top Ten Tips for Desert-Wise Living, you will not only add to your enjoyment of desert life, but will help conserve its beauty and balance.
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Land scalping – this is what it is – is possibly the most devastating practice of all the devastating environmental practices in these parts. And why?? why lay bare and kill acre upon acre of wild desert, often where there is no sign of construction to come.
Kills plants, kills animals, kills insects, kills root systems, deprives Joshua Trees and Creosotes of their companions; eliminates habitat for rabbits (the few remaining), quail, lizards, snakes (oh, is that it? afraid of snakes?); is terribly ugly as needless soul-killing is ugly.
And the mile-high sheets of sand now obliterating the sun on a windy day? look to hundreds of scalped properties all over this desert for this.
And, it is illegal. Yes, I am really really angry about it.
I’d like to see the ten tips printed as a flyer and a poster to be distributed to every local realtor and mailed to real estate agents who have listings here, something I’ve wanted to do for years.
What do you think?
If you printed the flyer exactly as it is here I would do the distributing.
We often blame the newcomers especially for not respecting the desert, but little is done to inform the ignorance that leads to irrecuperable desert destruction.
Thanks!
Constance Walsh
Landers