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Desert Advocacy
 CWC is currently working on
important desert conservation issues such as Bureau of Land Management
regional plans, wilderness management, destructive
road proposals in national parks and wilderness, and threats to
unprotected desert wilderness.
Significant threats to cultural, recreational, and
biological resources on both private and public lands in the California
desert remain and new ones arise every day. Despite the breadth of the
legislative protections afforded by the 1994 California Desert
Protection Act, these protections only apply to 40% of the region's
public lands, and have not yet been completely realized.
CWC is planning a desert symposium in which key desert
conservation issues and strategies will be addressed.
 Several unprotected wilderness
areas remain in the desert. Some of these are currently proposed for
wilderness designation in Senator Barbara Boxer's California Wild Heritage Act.
Click
here for a map of designated wilderness areas, national parks, and
proposed wilderness areas in the California desert.
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Just three miles off of Interstate 80, 
