| Let the desert be the desert. | Diane9247 | 9/9/07 7:00 PM | With all that's been learned the hard way about water conservation, building more golf courses in the desert is horribly indulgent. California and the entire Southwest face dire water shortages in the years ahead. There is NOT a shortage of places to |
| Re: Let the desert be the desert. | hotwellian | 9/11/07 6:15 PM | Similar to the developments in Southern Spain which are helping desertification there. Report here_________________________ Jezza, Boatman, Author and Administrator, Hotwells |
| Re: Let the desert be the desert. | Diane9247 | 9/11/07 7:27 PM | Horrible. Thanks for the link, I had not heard of that. It's all so depressing, isn't it? PS: Love the new avatar. There, I feel better. |
| Re: Let the desert be the desert. | Noisette | 9/12/07 2:19 AM | I was reading a article about the Iberian lynx only yesterday: BBC News. There's a video as well. _________________________ How to - create a placemark, add it to your post, add images, add paragraphs to placemarks, use folders Useful links and help |
| Re: Let the desert be the desert. | Diane9247 | 9/12/07 6:58 PM | Noisette - What a sad article. I've been reading quite a lot lately about the impending demise of many wild cat species. I did an image search - "desert golf" - and up came an enormous array of websites for golf resorts on every desert you can think |
| Re: Let the desert be the desert. | Hale | 9/13/07 1:44 AM | Hi Diane - Please tell me about golf courses in the desert -- do they try to grow grass on the fairway? (That would seem like an indulgence!) California is thought of by many of us Easterners as doing extensive landscaping with trees, schrubs and li |
| Re: Let the desert be the desert. | Diane9247 | 9/14/07 2:21 AM | Greetings, Hale! The California desert courses have been given the full treatment, as you can see: These three are just a few of many resorts in Palm Desert, CA. Probably the most famous desert golf courses in the US are in Palm Springs, CA. |
| Re: Let the desert be the desert. | saellis | 9/25/07 12:47 PM | Quote: |
| Re: Let the desert be the desert. | Diane9247 | 9/27/07 2:07 AM | Hello Saelis, Yes, that's sure to happen. It would be so much easier to stop the stupid use of water! I get discouraged, though, when I read comments (in GEC and elsewhere) from people who think conservation or environmental science of any kind is s |
| Re: Let the desert be the desert. | saellis | 9/27/07 1:20 PM | As mother always said, "Waste not, want not." Nothing liberal wacky there. Just good common sense._________________________ "Fortitudine Vincimus" |
| Re: Let the desert be the desert. | Groovy23 | 6/6/08 6:15 AM | The Kern river runs dry. Declining snowfall in the Sierra Nevadas has reduced the run-off into state rivers by half Arnold Schwarzenegger, the Governor of California, raised the spectre of emergency water rationing throughout the state for the fir |
| Re: Let the desert be the desert. | Richard Stawell | 6/12/08 9:53 AM | G'day Diane and all. Us Melbournian's have been enduring what our state government call's Stage 3a water restriction's since April 2007. After declining steadily for the past few year's the current dam capacity sitting at 29.5%. Pretty sad that the |
| Re: Let the desert be the desert. | Diane9247 | 11/29/08 11:06 PM | Farceur - Here is a no-frills course with a smattering of green at Roxby Downs, SA, Australia. I wonder if it still looks this way. This town seems to have something for every sports enthusiast - but that's understandable, considering where they liv |
| Re: Let the desert be the desert. | spotter2 | 3/13/09 2:03 PM | There's another factor that's often overlooked about desert communities. They drill wells and lower the water table, this has had catastropic results already. The level of underground water determines which waterholes and desert springs will flow, wh |
| Re: Let the desert be the desert. | JavaGAR | 3/13/09 5:30 PM | The following information from the United States Geological Survey demonstrates how removal of groundwater can reduce the quantity of water in nearby bodies of surface water. Quote:Ground water occurs in the saturated soil and rock below the water |
| Re: Let the desert be the desert. | Cory Brown | 3/15/09 12:04 PM | Here in Florida the courses were forced to cut back on watering and it was devestating to the courses that used city water. The ones that have thier own feeding tanks don't have to worry about how much water they use becuase it goes right back into t |
| Re: Let the desert be the desert. | Diane9247 | 3/15/09 6:47 PM | spotter and Java - I am shocked. Regarding depression in the vicinity of a well, I needed look no further than out my back door to see an example! Of course, I had not noticed this before and was astounded to see it after reading your posts. I am al |