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Human-caused climate change is putting the squeeze on Mojave Desert species To know a place truly is to know it in all seasons. I remind myself of this maxim as I blink sweat out of my eyes, hunched over a PVC pipe jutting out of the grooves of a vast salt flat, coaxing an electrode below the earth’s surface. The sun floats high over rippling ranges of black rock. The mass of dry air filling the Amargosa Valley shimmers. I’m checking shallow monitoring wells to understand flow trends in a wetland near Death Valley Junction. It’s lonely, exposed work work that ensures the endangered plants that call this place home will have the water they need to withstand the extreme summer.Summer in the Mojave Desert reminds human beings that this landscape, for all its beauty and allure, is not known for its softness. The heat and aridity are real, as heavy and constant as gravity. Summer is the great bottleneck that dictates who stays and who goes in these lands: which species have the cl

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