Get Out and Explore, Learn
If you live in the southwest or plan travel there early this year, here are a few opportunities to engage, explore, and learn about the desert! Desert Survivors If you're looking for opportunities to camp and hike some of the most remote parts of our deserts, check out the Desert Survivors - they organize frequent hikes and camping trips. You'll have to join the group (a nominal fee, and file a release). They have seven trips planned from now until April -later this month they will be exploring Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, and then the Turtle Mountains in February. Membership is worth it - you'll get their regular newsletter, and contribute to the group's desert conservation service and advocacy. Desert Institute The Desert Institute sponsored by the Joshua Tree National Park Associations has a robust schedule of field trips and lectures geared toward ecology, culture, and history of the desert. Although many of the events are in the vicinity of the pa