Every Last Drop: Calm Before the Storm
April 10, 2023
On April 1, Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP) and Mono Lake Committee staff met on the shores of Mono Lake to read the lake's water level. It is an annual ritual. It was 6379.99' (elevation); just one hundred of an inch below the...
State and BLM Large Scale Solar Planning
April 10, 2023
By Lynn Boulton
The scoping period recently ended for the 2022 BLM Solar Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (PEIS) also known as the Western Solar Project. The project is a revision of the planning for large-scale solar on BLM lands...
Appealing the Categorical Exclusion Decision on the Long Valley Gold Exploration Project
April 10, 2023
By Lynn Boulton
The Sierra Club (through the Range of Light Group), Center of Biological Diversity, Western Watershed Project, and Friends of the Inyo filed an appeal regarding a recent US District Court decision that will allow KORE Mining's...
MEDIA RELEASE: Appeal Challenges Gold Drilling in California’s Eastern Sierra Nevada
March 29, 2023
-- MEDIA RELEASE –
For Immediate Release
March 28, 2023
Contact:
Ian Brickey, Sierra Club, ian.brickey@sierraclub.org
Wendy Schneider Friends of the Inyo, (310) 849-3662,wendy@friendsoftheinyo.org
Ileene...
Fire, Water, and Mono Lake
March 17, 2023
FIRE, WATER AND MONO LAKE:
Life on the Right Side of California
with David Carle
Sunday March 19, 2023
7:00 PM Pacific Time
A Desert Survivors Online Presentation with Sierra Club Range of Light Group.
Mono...
Range of Light Group February 2023 eNewsletter
February 23, 2023
Tracking CO2 emissions, Harms of exploratory drilling webinar, Remembering Phil Pister, BHCP, BLM Solar PEIS, and Owens Valley vegetation types.
Remembering Phil Pister
February 22, 2023
By Chris Bubser
Most of us know the legend of how Phil Pister saved the Owens Pupfish in August of 1969. But I wanted to know more, so I listened to two hours of interviews with Phil recorded in December of 1991 for the Eastern California Museum...
Evaluating Vegetation at LADWP Mitigation Sites
February 21, 2023
When you first visit an LADWP mitigation site, it can be hard to tell what to look for. Some problems are obvious: a field full of Russian thistle, for example. But what constitutes a healthy plant ecosystem here in Payahuunadü? The Long-Term Water...
Range of Light Group January 2023 eNewsletter
January 25, 2023
Mammoth redevelopment, 30x30 priorities, hydroelectric/solar/wind projects, exploratory drilling, monarch butterflies, and more!
Saline Valley Monarch Butterfly Count
January 20, 2023
Yes, there are Monarchs in Saline Valley in the winter! Not because it is warm; it isn’t. It gets down into the 30s at night in November and December. But, there is food, water, and shelter for them there. Monarchs overwinter in a few canyons in the...