. The California Desert Conservation Area Plan, 1980 : summary. United States. Bureau of Land Management. California Desert Conservation Area; Conservation of natural resources; Conservation of natural resources; Wildlife conservation; Wildlife conservation. across the Desert. Highway settlements and resorts sprang up to serve automobile travelers, many of whom had been inspired by the authors who had begun to describe the Desert as a beautiful, delicate place. By the 1930s, this sentiment had evolved into actions which created the Desert's three large parks: Anza-Borrego State Park and Joshua
. The California Desert Conservation Area Plan, 1980 : summary. United States. Bureau of Land Management. California Desert Conservation Area; Conservation of natural resources; Conservation of natural resources; Wildlife conservation; Wildlife conservation. across the Desert. Highway settlements and resorts sprang up to serve automobile travelers, many of whom had been inspired by the authors who had begun to describe the Desert as a beautiful, delicate place. By the 1930s, this sentiment had evolved into actions which created the Desert's three large parks: Anza-Borrego State Park and Joshua Tree and Death Valley National Monuments. More water projects, notably the Colorado River Aqueduct, brought pumping stations and other support facilities. The first long, high-voltage power transmission lines also appeared about this time. Beginning with Patton's wide-ranging expeditions in prepa- ration for North African tank warfare, the military was attracted back to the Desert during World War II and remained to train troops and test a rapidly evolving weapons technology. The modern character of the California Desert began to emerge immediately following the Second World War. In 1946, the Bureau of Land Management assumed the regulation of livestock grazing, which had begun after the Taylor Grazing Act of 1934. The Bureau also administered such land disposal policies as the Small Tract Act of 1938, which allowed indivi- duals to secure five-acre tracts for a very small fee. Attracted by this opportunity, other land deals, and the boon of such technology as air conditioning, refugees from coastal Cali- fornia's urban problems spilled over into the western fringes of the Desert in developments ranging from the closely spaced suburbia of Palm Springs to "jackrabbit homesteads," small shacks dispersed sparsely across hundreds of square miles. The war's legacy of four-wheel-drive vehicles and air- cooled engines allowed visitors to penetrate even the most remote regio
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