New CLUI Outpost in the Hinterland
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60-foot Exhibition Unit being prepped
for its trip to a new CLUI Site under development in
Boron, California.
CLUI photo
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A new site in the CLUI network is under development
in Boron, California. A staging and logistic yard has been
leased by the CLUI on the western edge of the town, to support
activities in the Antelope Valley and the High Desert at large.
A new building was recently deployed to the
site to serve as an office and occasional exhibition facility
for the area, a region rich in unusual sites, and often addressed
in CLUI programming, including the Route 58 guidebook, as
well as regional tours and field trips.
The town of Boron sits between the Lehman Ridge
rocket test site, which looms above the town, on the north edge
of Edwards Air Force Base, and the largest open pit mine in
California, the Borate mine from which Boron gets its name.
Down the road, east on Highway 58,
the largest solar array in the world sits next to a Federal
prison, across from a bombing range. In the other direction,
west of Boron, are many superfund sites, aircraft test sites
and storage yards, and more prisons.
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It's the Cheese indeed:
The CLUI lot in Boron.
CLUI photo
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"And that's just for starters," says
CLUI program coordinator Erik Knutzen, "we're really looking
forward to the extrusion of more interpretive layers from this
rich and varied terrain."
