What can be done?

Educating the public and making this issue hit the front page of major newspapers and other media sources can help improve human impact. The Mojave ecosystem can also benefit from not allowing tourists to visit the majority of the desert and stopping the amount of all-terrain-vehicles from disturbing the surface. Cleaning up the desert is another alternative but difficult especially with harsh weather conditions. Getting rid of abandoned mines, water parks and cleaning up the abandoned airplane wasteland and recycling useful materials is hard work but necessary. Tax dollars should be spent towards these types of cleaning up projects instead of investing them on plans to aggregate water from the desert.