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Article: Borrego mulls plans, seeks funds for year round tourism: Boom-Bust cycle depends on mother nature's bounty. (Special Report: Tourism).(Borrego Springs, California)
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- San Diego Business Journal
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- April 1, 2002
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BORREGO SPRINGS -- To a first-time visitor, the vivid wildflowers sprinkled throughout much of these desert lands are as striking as the desolate area's silence.
This year doesn't look too promising for the annual floral display, since the area is in midst of one of the worst droughts ever recorded in San Diego County, said Mark Jorgensen, superintendent of the Anza Borrego Desert State Park.
Wildflowers, like the rainfall that brings them, are one of several elements vital to the number of tourists that come through Borrego Springs, but which seem beyond anyone's control.
Borrego Springs, which sprawls across a fourth of Borrego Valley's ...