Natural History Wanderings

KCET’s Back Forty Blog reports

In a decision that is likely the killing blow for one of southern California’s longest-running environmental controversies, a federal judge has reversed a 1999 land swap in Riverside County that would have allowed the Kaiser Eagle Mountain company to build a large landfill adjacent to Joshua Tree National Park.

Read full story at KCET’s Back Forty at http://www.kcet.org/news/redefine/revisit/land-use/court-order-final-blow-to-landfill-near-joshua-tree-national-park.html