What are you doing on Tuesday?
Now is our moment to protect public access to desert wildlands for future generations to enjoy. Tuesday is an important opportunity to tell government officials that we cherish the vast open landscapes that the California desert has to offer. Our presence will send a message that we are tired of losing public lands to private, for-profit destruction. At stake will be the White House's consideration of the Mojave Trails, Castle Mountains and Sand-to-Snow National Monuments. Without these monuments, our desert will transition from a humbling, natural landscape to an industrial checkerboard. The desert that early inhabitants experienced was a lot more expansive than the desert we know today, and if we don't take action now, our grandchildren will inherit a landscape unrecognizable to us and preserved only in our photographs. Since 2009, dozens of square miles of our desert wildlands have been bulldozed and converted into energy projects and subdivisions. The alternati