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  • Land for proposed Joshua Hill project purchased (by 2 conservancies)

    07/01/2004 5:34:39 PM PDT · by NormsRevenge · 2 replies · 290+ views
    Bakersfield Californian ^ | 7/1/04 | AP - LA
    LOS ANGELES (AP) - Two conservancies paid $13.2 million to purchase 4,520 acres of sensitive desert habitat once slated to become the site of a new city, the conservancies announced Thursday. In addition, the Nature Conservancy and the state-owned Coachella Valley Mountains Conservancy said they would buy about another 4,000 acres as part of their plan to protect sand dunes and palm oases and to create a wildlife corridor between the nearly 800,000-acre Joshua Tree National Park and the 20,000-acre Coachella Valley Preserve in southeastern California. The land was once slated as the site of the Joshua Hills development, which...