'Citizen scientists' help study desert climate change (USA Today)
USA TodayApril 14th, 2015 1:01 am
...The Mojave Desert Land Trust and the Wildlands Conservancy, which protect some wilderness areas near the national park, are also participating in the study. Barrows and his colleagues plan to eventually publish the results of their research. Barrows said he has been noticing some changes in the desert lately. He has been seeing very few of two types of lizards — chuckwallas and desert horned lizards — in some of the flat, low-lying areas of the park where he used to see them regularly just a few years ago...