Transmitting from the Mojave Wilderness in Joshua Tree, California, now is the time for Desert Oracle Radio, the voice of the desert.

I have these coyotes that call me to work. It's very effective. They're always out there.

Hello and welcome to the old school house museum here in 29 Palms. It's home to everything you've come to expect from an iconic desert town. You have the Hardy Natives, the European

pioneers, the Canadian tourists, gold mines, a massive military base,

open-range cattle, turning grassland to sand, a bizarrely popular national park, wilderness,

salt pans, crackpots, religious nuts, environmental nuts,

OHVs and biodiesel volvos, meth labs and petroglyphs.

It's all here.

And here we are due to the government shutdown,

the Bureau of Land Management Speaker, who was scheduled to be here, as Cheryl said, had to cancel because who knows when the government

and the national parks and all that will or won't be functioning.

They just don't return your calls when the government shuts down.

Well, that now canceled speaker was to be Kyle Sullivan, BLM manager of Mojave Trail's National

Monument.

He's apparently working another event in Joshua Tree.

So afterwards, notes can be compared.

See who made the right choice.

And so Kevin Wong from the Desert Institute writes me and I rarely get an email like this

he writes me and he says you need to take over for the federal government

and it even says that in the press release as a result i took one of my kids uh junior ranger

badges it's metal i believe i'm sure it's official and if we have any emergencies or anything

like that just walk right on past me because I

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