Twentynine Palms Marines chip in to clean up desert (Desert Sun)
Desert SunMay 20th, 2015 6:44 pm
A few good men — and women — are helping the Mojave Desert Land Trust clean up conservation lands the trust has acquired in its region — stretching from Mexico to Death Valley. The land trust, a nonprofit conservation organization, raises funds from private foundations and private citizens to buy land for conservation and preservation throughout the Mojave Desert. Since its founding in 2005, the group has acquired 54,000 acres of conservation lands — investing more than $28 million in the preservation of these vital ecosystems in the California desert...