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The Salton Sea
Imperial Valley Stories
Will These Keep the Lights On?
Cover Story
| Imperial Valley
Published May 28, 2008
The Sunrise Powerlink gleamed for the first time in Sempra Energy’s eye on November 1, 2002. At the company’s San Diego headquarters, an energy-management expert from Shell Trading gave a PowerPoint presentation highlighting the potential transmission ...
Dust Bowl Coming?
City Lights
| Imperial Valley
Published Feb. 13, 2008
“The wet 20th century, the wettest of the past millennium, the century when Americans built an incredible civilization in the desert, is over,” says a superb article in February’s National Geographic. The piece, entitled “Drying of ...
Hike to the rock house in Rockhouse Canyon, near Anza-Borrego's Bow Willow Campground.
Imperial Valley
| Roam-O-Rama
Published Dec. 6, 2007
A simple shack fashioned of rock, cement, and corrugated metal might be unremarkable anywhere else, but in the midst of thousands of acres of wild desert, it becomes a significant point of interest. The semi-rugged hike ...
Figs in Our Future
City Lights
| Imperial Valley
Published Nov. 21, 2007
Few fruits evoke the sunny blue skies of the Mediterranean and the balmy days of September quite so poignantly as the fig, but local farmers and advanced agricultural science may be turning that image inside out. ...
Big Game Guide
Imperial Valley
| Sporting Box
Published June 14, 2007
Regard, I have happened upon our Department of Fish and Game Licensed Big Game Guides Web page. I envision a Great Hunter, right boot placed on a dead beast's ribs, Italian shooter shirt opened at the ...
You Could Hear a Pin Drop At Night!
Cover Story
| Imperial Valley
Published May 18, 2006
I've flown over the Salton Sea many times. From the air, it doesn't look real. The blue expanse and the green fields of the Coachella and Imperial Valleys that butt up against the sea's northern and ...
San Diego Drowns In Own Hubris
City Lights
| Imperial Valley
Published April 20, 2006
Flexing its muscles, working in secret, and stifling dissent, San Diego in the early to mid-1990s tried to assert water independence. It got hosed. The San Diego County Water Authority wound up paying 50 percent more ...
Board Up and Go
Cover Story
| Imperial Valley
Published Dec. 2, 2004
"It was my first training flight with Mercy Air," says J.P. Wilson, a large, white-haired man. "I had gone through the ground school, and I was scheduled to fly with Jeff Emery. I got here about ...
Hive Mentality
Cover Story
| Imperial Valley
| Pala
| Valley Center
Published Sept. 16, 2004
I love honey. I love honey! Like the bears. All day long my coffee has honey instead of sugar. My cereal has honey. My toast, honey on it. Always honey." David Rojas of San Marcos has ...
Inventor Tackles Salton Sea Disaster
City Lights
| Imperial Valley
Published Feb. 26, 2004
How it works is an industrial secret, say the founders of Aqua Genesis LLC, a San Diego company that intends to clean up the Salton Sea and in the process make thousands of acre-feet (one acre-foot ...
Best of 2003: Best Unsettling Day Trip
Imperial Valley
| Best of San Diego
Published Dec. 25, 2003
Salton Sea State Recreation Area, Imperial County www.saltonsea.ca.gov 760-564-4888 An accident of badly planned irrigation, Salton Sea is one of those places where you can see why Southern California still disturbs the American imagination. In the ...
Best of 2003: Best Scary Weekend Getaway
Imperial Valley
| Best of San Diego
Published Dec. 25, 2003
Imperial Sand Dunes Recreational Area, Imperial County 760-337-4400 San Diegans have visited this remarkable stretch of desert for decades. On weekends between October and May, tens of thousands of off-road enthusiasts thunder across these barren dunes. ...
Sandy Valley Showdown
City Lights
| Imperial Valley
Published March 6, 2003
Perhaps because it started as Physicians Insurance Company of Ohio and still reports to shareholders as an insurance business, PICO Holdings of La Jolla doesn't like to answer questions about water-resources development. The firm refers inquiries ...
Best of 2001: Best Seaside Property Values
Imperial Valley
| Best of San Diego
Published Dec. 27, 2001
Desert Shores, off Highway 86, Imperial County Diversified Realty and Investments 800-385-1040 Let's compare: size of Pacific Ocean: 69,000,000 square miles. Price of houses overlooking Pacific Ocean: humongous. Size of Salton Sea? 525 square miles. Price ...
Hunt for obsidian and view volcanic mud pots near the Salton Sea.
Imperial Valley
| Roam-O-Rama
Published March 1, 2001
About as fast as toenails grow, the Imperial Valley continues to widen in an east-west direction. As fast as fingernails grow, Imperial Valley's west side shudders northwestward relative to territory farther east and north. The combined ...