By Lynn Boulton The BLM calls it the Public Lands Rule. Others call it the Conservation and Landscape Health Rule or the Healthy Lands Rule. It is exciting to see the BLM declare conservation a use and elevate conservation on a par with other...

By Lynn Boulton Every April 20th, per the Long Term Water Agreement, Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP) releases its annual report with their plan on how much groundwater they will pump and from where. With this huge, unprecedented...

Categorical exclusion appeal, Earth Day, large scale solar, cyanide ban, and more!

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...

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...

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 –  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: 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...

Tracking CO2 emissions, Harms of exploratory drilling webinar, Remembering Phil Pister, BHCP, BLM Solar PEIS, and Owens Valley vegetation types.

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...