Joshua Tree
Desert Protection Project
Stop Eagle Mountain Dump

Give It Back! Lands

The red outlines depict the land-exchange lands where 20,000 tons of Los Angeles' garbage would be deposited daily for over 100 years. Despite claims made by the polluters, the dump will not reclaim scars left from mining, but will actually double the size of disturbed lands by creating another scar from garbage burial.
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Photos courtesy of NPS and Howard Gross/NPCA