What made the Owens Valley the way it is, in our time? An accident of history, of water grabs, of one group of humans using easy money to buy out another group of humans, that's what preserved the most beautiful place in the world from the fate of the Central Valley. The same sort of accidental miracle that saved so much of the American southwest's mountains and deserts from wide-scale development, agriculture, housing booms, industrialization, speculation. A heretical prayer, is what we offer you tonight. With new (and classic) tracks from <a href="https://redblueblacksilver.bandcamp.com/">RedBlueBlackSilver.</a> Find out more about our book, our periodical, and all the other desert creations we make for you at <a href="http://desertoracle.com">DesertOracle.com</a>.<a href="https://www.patreon.com/user?u=26080998" rel="payment">Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=26080998</a>See <a href="https://omnystudio.com/listener">omnystudio.com/listener</a> for privacy information.<a href="https://www.patreon.com/desertoracle" rel="payment">Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracle</a>See <a href="https://omnystudio.com/listener">omnystudio.com/listener</a> for privacy information.

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Desert Oracle Radio is a weekly road trip through the weird American desert from the publisher of Desert Oracle, the pocket-sized field guide published in Joshua Tree, California. Hear tales of mysterious lights, missing tourists, lost mines, venomous creatures, weird history and weirder people. Hosted by editor Ken Layne and featuring a cast of intriguing mystics, oddballs, scientists and artists, Desert Oracle Radio is your soundtrack for a desert night. The program is broadcast on Friday nights at 10 p.m. on KCDZ 107.7 FM in the Mojave high desert, with field reports from around and across the desert lands, and is distributed by Public Radio Exchange (PRX).