Qualla: Bonanza Spring https://qualla.com/bonanza-spring en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:11 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Bonanza Spring https://qualla.com/bonanza-spring Bonanza Spring: Introduction https://qualla.com/bonanza-spring/ Bonanza Spring flows at roughly ten gallons per minute — a rate that, in any other context, would be unremarkable. In the eastern Mojave Desert, it makes this half-mile stretch of water among the most significant biological features in the region. Cottonwoods grow here. Cattails. Catfish and bluegills live in the pools. The spring is the largest freshwater spring system in the Mojave Desert, and it exists because the Mojave Aquifer pushes water to the surface through fractures in the Clipper Mountain foothills. The Cadiz water project, which proposes to pump 16.3 billion gallons per year from that aquifer, threatens to lower the water table beneath the spring system and shut it off.

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]]> Wed, 01 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/9/q/j/v/bonanza-spring-wp/9qjv-bonanza-spring-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Bonanza Spring: What Ten Gallons Per Minute Means https://qualla.com/bonanza-spring/ Hydrologists classify springs by their discharge rate. Bonanza Spring qualifies as a fifth- or sixth-magnitude spring — not the most powerful category, but meaningful in a landscape where surface water of any kind is exceptional. The spring's half-mile length supports riparian ve...

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]]> Wed, 01 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/9/q/j/v/bonanza-spring-wp/9qjv-bonanza-spring-what-ten-gallons-per-minute-means.mp3 0:06 2 full Bonanza Spring: The People Who Knew It First https://qualla.com/bonanza-spring/ The Chemehuevi, Mojave, Cahuilla, and Serrano peoples knew Bonanza Spring long before any Spanish explorer or Anglo settler identified it. For Indigenous communities navigating the eastern Mojave, reliable water was the organizing principle of travel and settlement. A spring that...

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]]> Wed, 01 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/9/q/j/v/bonanza-spring-wp/9qjv-bonanza-spring-the-threat-from-below.mp3 0:06 4 full Bonanza Spring: The Oasis Logic https://qualla.com/bonanza-spring/ Bonanza Spring operates on what ecologists call the oasis principle: a small, reliable water source in an otherwise inhospitable landscape supports a disproportionately rich community of organisms that use it as a waystation, a breeding ground, or a permanent home. Migratory bird...

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