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  • Desertification Information Network - Data and links concerning desertification
  • Desert Research Institute - DRI is the environmental research division of University and Community College System of Nevada. Air, Land, Water Climate.
  • McDowell Sonoran Land Trust - work to preserve and protect open space in the Sonoran Desert
  • Office of Arid Lands Studies - Arizona Remote Sensing Center is housed in the Office of Arid Lands Studies, Univ. AZ
  • Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance is a non-profit organization dedicated to preserving Utah's threatened red rock wilderness.
  • Trans Pecos Region - The Texas office of The Nature Conservancy, an international non-profit environmental organization.
  • University of Arizona - The International Arid Lands Consortium is an independent, nonprofit research organization supporting ecological sustainability in arid and semiarid lands worldwide.
  • University of Arizona - The Arid Lands Newsletter is a semiannual research magazine published both in print and online for an international readership of researchers, land managers, conservationists, and policy makers. It is a service of the Office of Arid Lands Studies at The University of Arizona.

    Chihuahuan Desert Research Institute
    P.O. Box 1334
    Alpine, TX 79831-1334

    Desert Protective Council, Inc.
    P.O.Box 3635
    San Diego, CA 92163-1635

    Desert Trail Association
    P.O. Box 589
    Burns, OR 97720

    Nevada Desert Experience
    POB 4487
    Las Vegas NV 89127

Santa Barbara

Discover the city of Santa Barbara, California, the birthplace of Earth Day. A 1969 oil platform blowout off the coast of Santa Barbara led to a wave of environmental laws nationwide. That gave impetus to what we consider now the cornerstones to the modern environmental movement. A year later, the first Earth Day was held followed by the creation of the Environmental Protection Agency. A succession of other laws protecting water, marine life and endangered species followed.