The Towns to Trails Project is "a planning project that will develop a regional trails plan to create a multi-use network of trails, which will connect Eastern Sierra communities to each other and to public lands throughout the region." The end...

The BLM's prime directive has always been to facilitate grazing and support mineral, oil, and gas extraction. It has not been the BLM's priority to maintain ecosystems. Almost all BLM land is divided into grazing allotments and it has allowed...

The Northeast Spring stopped flowing the summer and fall of 2022 just before the unprecedented wet winter of 2022-23. It will probably stop flowing again in the next drought. This puts Fish Slough and its many threatened and endangered species at...

The Northeast Spring at Fish Slough has been in decline since the 1960s and hit zero flow in July, 2022. It is barely flowing after the unprecedented winter of 2022-23. It was the most productive spring in Fish Slough, a unique and special desert...

It has been over 50 years since the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP) started groundwater pumping. In 1997 the court discharged the Environmental Impact Report and an MOU that defined over 60 mitigation projects that LADWP was to do...

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...