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...

I was lucky to be out at Conglomerate Mesa for a few days while it was in bloom this past June. The mesa was alive with Rock Wrens, butterflies, snakes, lizards, flowers in bloom, flowers just past their peak, and thousands of grasshoppers!! On...

By Lynn Boulton The potential for gold excites investors, even in microscopic quantities, but it depresses everyone else who is familiar with the devastation to flora, fauna and their habitat the discovery of gold brings.

LADWP's pumping plan, the BLM rule, exploratory drilling updates, Pinyon Jay survey, communication volunteers needed, and more!

By Lynn Boulton It has been 16.5 years since water came down the Owens River to the Owens Lake. Is it time to celebrate? Not quite. While it is great to have the river back, it isn't a healthy river system. This is a critical year in that...

By Lynn Boulton The Great Basin Bird Observatory has an app where you can enter your observations of pinyon jays. Pinyon jays are in serious decline--their numbers are down 83% from the late 1960s. As their name indicates, they rely on pinyon...

By Lynn Boulton There are five different gold exploration companies planning to drill in the Eastern Sierra. There are three in the Bodie Hills that can start any time after July 15: Bald Peak (helicopter access to the Dry Lakes Plateau),...

By Lynn Boulton As a fundraiser for the Sierra Club, Phil Gaimon, a well-known cyclist, and his team put on a cycling event in the Owens Valley on April 29th. This was the first 100-mile cycling event put on in the Owens Valley and drew people...