By Eric L. Garner and Michelle Ouellette

The California desert has vast expanses of land that host some of the highest solar insolation in the world. It is also home to a myriad of sensitive habitats for endangered species. This convergence of strong federal and state policies favoring renewable energy development and laws that protect species and the environment at large makes the California desert “ground zero” for an epic effort to balance climate-saving renewable energy development and the protection of desert ecosystems. 

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