Californias Disappearing Deserts

Hi Nev! This is truly sad to see, and unfortunately it is happening right here in Australia too. All the developers want is the $$$... Never mind the natural environment, the native flora and fauna, food and shelter for all the little creatures that can't speak up for themselves... If there are dollars in it for someone who already has too many dollars, then it just goes. And THEY call that PROGRESS!!. Mankind just seems determined to destroy the whole environment. Thanks for sharing. Gladys.

said gladysclancy 2004.03.26 at 23:40:44 PST

Hi Nev. Great job with the pictures. It reminds me of the changes I've seen since we moved here in 1965. There is a town 12 miles from where I live that used to have nothing in between but cow pastures, a drive-in theater and a Tupperware conference complex. Now it has gas stations, car dealerships, housing developments, stores and hotels. Great idea for an album. You plan to update it as construction continues? Don

said muggs1953 2004.03.29 at 20:27:42 PST

It's a great pity... Is there any protecting regulation or can every builder just do what he likes? Greetings Anna

said annaoldenhave 2004.03.29 at 22:19:40 PST

Beautiful pictures, I enjoyed the Antelope Valley and Seashore as I lived in Bakersfield during the 70's

said bjread74 2004.05.24 at 14:29:32 PDT

Well done documentary. I can't imagine anyone wanting to live in those developments, they are so ugly. I hope there is a movement afoot to regulate or stop that kind of wanton destruction. The Nature Conservancy has helped here in Maine. Joline

said smallwon 2004.05.25 at 04:14:13 PDT

Tks for sharing. It is soo sad to see the destruction of your beautiful desert. The photos with the flowers are spectacular, and isn't the housing just such a shame. Friends of mine just got back from Tasmania, Southern Australia, where some of the oldest forests in the world are being logged for woodchip???..trees that are 7,000 years old??...and they wonder why the greenies get upset. I would become a greenie on that alone, as we need these beautiful gifts that nature has given us. Natural beauty is being destroyed by man's greed, and they leave destruction like my friends said. It looked like a bomb had gone off......and the lorry trucks were pouring in and out of this great old forest!!!...Tks for letting people know that these crimes to nature are at each of our back doors. Em from Aussie

said emphotos103 2004.05.25 at 05:01:03 PDT

I love your pictures, and your heart to tell the story, making an effort to save, to make aware of whats really happening there. Keep telling, people need homes, but there are ways around this, this is just the quickest and fastest $ maker for a quick return. Keeping my fingers crossed for you, Jesi in Arkansas.

said openroad4me 2004.06.15 at 21:25:30 PDT

I found this album extremely interesting ! What you are trying to single out has in fact been going on for centuries and centuries and centuries! And, as long as man IS and WANTS, the destruction will go on! Your photos with the desert in spring, the poppies and the Joshua trees are wonderful! Thank you for giving my albums some of your time, I appreciate the message you left in my guestbook. Friendly greetings from Japan, Gabriela

said shukun20 2004.07.03 at 08:19:02 PDT

Nev, I have been moved to write in several guest books, never so moved as this. I grew up in California, and when I see pictures such as yours of the poppies, my heart just aches to go back to those days. IF progress must go on, them you are right, 'have a heart-save some of it, build around it. Thanks. Jesi in Arkansas.

said openroad4me 2004.08.15 at 19:47:31 PDT

Hi Nev! I just wish this wasn't true, but unfortunately it is happening in so many places, even here in Western Australia. My heart aches for those Poppy Fields and the Joshua Trees, and all the other things that mankind is hell-bent on destroying. Thanks for sharing and I hope that this album "does make a difference" to our world. Gladys.

said gladysclancy 2004.08.29 at 23:02:29 PDT

Hi Nev! Indeed, this disappearance of rare natural landscapes and/or plants and animals is catastrophic - how does it come that there is apparently no efficient law reinforcement, that responsible people have not learnt enough from avoidable disasters in the recent past?! Fortunately, we have since quite a while the Joshua Tree N.M. (and good places N Wickenburg). - Thank you for yestarday's kind comments on one of our Tucson albums. - Best wishes from SW France: Käthi and Henri

said oertlif_2 2004.10.08 at 07:53:46 PDT

Nice work. Great albums. Some really good shots. Thanks for sharing,Bernard from New Zealand

said spraggbh 2004.11.30 at 22:34:53 PST

Nev, thanks for putting this album on your site, shows just how much the builders care about the environment...nothing. The local newspaper could enlighten the masses here. Must be some local clubs in the area and the State that could make it possible to slow down the destruction of the land. It would be nice to find that one contractor that could invest in the land and keep it within the housing development that probably can't be stopped. Will you be adding to this site as time goes on? Thanks. Ron/Oregon Coast

said rboise 2005.02.08 at 09:45:21 PST

It's interesting that here in Florida, people think there won't be any natural land left, but California's developers are doing an equally POOR job. Your album makes a good strong point. Judy

said ladybug591 2005.04.05 at 09:33:13 PDT

Hello and greetings from Kentucky. I have enjoyed looking at this wonderful album. You know it seems here in Kentucky, a lot of the finest farm land here has been bought by factories to build along the Ohio River. Electric generating plants are all along the Ohio River. They build tall smoke stacks as high as some 600 - 900 feet high. And build holding lakes that hold the ash from the coal that is being used. I don't understand why they don't go into the hills and build there where they are no more then 2000' away or less from the source of the water that is needed for cooling and discharge. Personally, I wonder what is going to happen out west, because of the lack of water in many areas. Isn't it a shame so much is being taken up by developers for housing. Everywhere I go, house after new house is being built. I can't even begin to wonder what it is like in California. Well, so much for that I suppose. A Very nice album. If you get a chance to look at one of my albums. The Covered Bridges are some photos I have taken. The reason I mention them, one of my very favorites was set on fire this week and burnt. During the Covered Bridge Festival in Parke County Indiana, they did have 32 covered bridges in that county. There are millions from all over the world that come. And I am truly beginning to wonder, what on earth is wrong with so many people these days. Do you like the Sony camera? Well, take care friend, all the best to you... Darrell

said worldwide1001 2005.04.30 at 04:11:37 PDT

Well done my friend. One day all we will have left to enjoy are our photo's. Jan

said carversgal 2005.05.17 at 06:59:16 PDT

Hi Nev! It makes me sad to re-visit and see more and more of the Desert Vegetation Disappearing. Unfortunately, the same thing is happening over here, and the only winners are the Developers. It is a battle that our Flora and Fauna cannot win. Take plenty of photos while you can and hopefully they will be treasured by future generations who will never know exactly "How it used to be".. Good work and thanks for sharing.. Best wishes.. Gladys, Western Australia.

said gladysclancy 2006.02.14 at 05:38:23 PST