“Southern California’s Imperial County Board of Supervisors named “Salvation Mountain” a Historically Significant Property and Historic Resource today, January 9, in a unanimous five to zero vote. The designation protects late artist Leonard Knight’s monumental art project in the desert, which sits on a former military base on state-owned land, from development that could cause “adverse change.” The 50-foot-tall artwork is located an hour and a half from Palm Springs and three hours from Los Angeles near the Salton Sea, in one of California’s poorest counties…”‘
