Outings Chair The outings chair would develop hike leaders and make sure everyone is up to date on their first aid and SC outings leader trainings. They would lead hikes as well.  Programs Chair The programs chair would organize a few...

By Lynn Boulton What's a PEIS? It's a Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement which means they are identifying a basic set of rules that would apply across all new projects. In this case, it is the rules that the BLM would go by to decide if...

By Lynn Boulton The Forest Service closed the scoping period for the Polaris Exploration Project on February 16, 2024, a gold exploratory drilling project in the southeast corner of the Bodie Hills in Nevada. The Polaris project is between...

By Lynn Boulton Premium Energy has re-applied for a preliminary permit from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) for a hydro pumped storage project south of Olancha (project P-15307-000). A preliminary permit allows them to do studies...

Klondex/Hecla Nevada drilled at three places behind the historic Aurora Cemetery in 2023;  a start on the 16 locations they were approved to do. However, the Forest Service just released a scoping notice to kick off an environmental assessment...

How much harm to the environment comes with gold exploration?

There's an exploratory drilling project to look for gold on Forest Service land at Spring Peak. Spring Peak is in the southeast corner of the Bodie Hills in Nevada just across the border from California. You can see Mono Lake, the Sierra crest, and...

Under CEQA, LADWP has obligations to mitigate the significant environmental impacts from the groundwater pumping project that started in 1971 and continues today to fill the second barrel of the Los Angeles Aqueduct. Where do those mitigation...

Island in the Sky Film Screening, Presentation on the Proposed Amargosa Basin National Monument, update on exploratory drilling projects, Fish Slough

Inyo County is the second largest county in California, which may explain why those who live in Inyo County have never heard of, or been to, the Amargosa Basin. Just pronouncing it can be tricky. Find Bishop on a county map and locate the villages...