People with hotel industry ties are among buyers and entities that have snapped up 22 parcels within national park boundaries ...

and while planning Palm Desert (developed by his brother-in-law Cliff Henderson) in the 1940s, he was granted a rocky hilltop parcel in Cahuilla Hills as part of the 1938 Small Tract Act.

British writer and explorer Wilfred Thesiger described the wastelands of Saudi Arabia as “a desert within a desert, so ...