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Mar 20, 2009 5:25 pm US/Pacific

Feinstein Wants Part Of Mojave Desert A Monument

Environment & The Green Beat

WASHINGTON (AP) ―

Click to enlarge 1 of 1: Mojave Desert.

More than 500,000 acres in the Mojave Desert would be off-limits to wind or solar energy production under legislation California Sen. Dianne Feinstein intends to introduce.

The land in the southeast corner of the state is coveted by companies seeking to develop alternative energy, setting up a potential clash with one of the more powerful members of Congress.

Nineteen companies have submitted applications to build solar or wind facilities on the property, but Feinstein said Friday that such development would violate the spirit of what conservationists had intended when they donated much of the land to the public.

The California Democrat seeks to give the land national monument status.