NEWS RELEASE: for immediate
release, Wednesday, October 30, 2002
Desert Art Show Highlights Public Lands - Tour Hits Southern
Arizona November 2 - 23
Photos by L.A.'s Andrew Harvey of Algodones Dunes, scenic wildlands turned
'Mad Max'
Contact: Daniel R. Patterson, Desert Ecologist 520.623.5252
x 306 or 520.906.2159
Andrew Harvey, Photographer 818.469.1185
TUCSON - Conservationists have teamed up with Los Angeles-based
photographer Andrew Harvey to create a visually stunning and fascinating
photographic exhibition exploring the Sonoran Desert's Algodones Sand
Dunes. This traveling photographic exhibit, which moves to Tucson after
popular stops in San Diego, Las Vegas and El Centro, is a dynamic combination
of art and environmental education. The exhibit engages the public in
a memorable visual experience while inviting them to learn more about
the natural history of the Algodones Dunes, the importance of preserving
the diversity of animals and plants that depend on this fragile ecosystem,
and the looming threat to our environment posed by the increased use of
off-road vehicles on public lands.
This is an important opportunity in Southern Arizona
to view a photographic exhibit with breathtaking visual imagery that also
raises public awareness of an immediate environmental threat to our southwestern
public lands.
Your opportunity to explore this exhibit of a rare,
extraordinarily beautiful, and biologically important piece of the American
landscape is: Saturday, November 2 - November 23 at Bookman's (eastside)
6230 E. Speedway, 520.748.9555. Media and the public are invited to an
opening reception Saturday, November 2, 2 - 4 pm. Exhibit hours are 9
am - 10 pm daily. Desert Ecologist Daniel Patterson and Biologist Dale
Turner will speak at the opening reception on the environmental damage
caused by off-road vehicles, and the importance of dunes conservation.
The Algodones Dunes Photographic Tour is important and timely, as the
U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is updating their management plan
for the dunes. President Bush's Interior Secretary Gale Norton is speeding
toward opening protected areas now closed to off-road vehicles, gravely
threatening this unique and fragile Sonoran Desert habitat. Turning off-road
vehicles loose on these wildlands would make the dunes more dangerous
and inaccessible for other visitors, worsen air pollution, overload law
enforcement and medical services, and would further jeopardize endangered
species that live only at the Algodones Dunes - surviving no other place
on Earth.
View a slide
show with Andrew Harvey's photographs of the Algodones Sand Dunes.
Learn more about the Algodones
Sand Dunes.
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