Flipping through her old college papers, Teresa Pierce, resident of Desert Center, CA, realized her fight against the solar development wasn’t the first time conservation issues had caught her attention. In 1984, her first college English paper—for which she got an A+—was on the importance of conserving the nation’s national parks and wilderness areas.
“We should stop and reflect for a moment on the reasons why we need parks and wilderness areas,” she wrote. “If indeed the reasons are to achieve oneness with our world and our universe then we better do the best we can to hold onto what we have.”
Her goal now is to hold on to what she found at Lake Tamarisk—the beauty of the desert.