Toiyabe News and Issues Blog

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The Las Vegas Band of Paiutes Snow Mountain Powwow is back for their 30th annual celebration. And we will be there. And we would like you to help us talk to folks about the proposed Avi Kwa Ame National Monument. Please also come out to support the...

Signed into law by Theodore Roosevelt on June 8, 1906, the Antiquities Act gives presidents the authority to designate National Monuments. Today there are 129 national monuments across the country, and a need to establish more, such as Avi Kwa Ame...

The USFWS has committed to protecting the rare Tiehm's Buckwheat, which is threatened by a proposed lithium mine. But questions remain about how much protection the flower will receive, or how much it needs.

Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion - JEDI. What does these mean and why are they important to Sierra Club's work?

Last month K2 Gold announced that they were putting their gold exploration at Conglomerate Mesa on hold because the Bureau of Land Management was requiring an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for their Phase 2 project. K2 Gold is complaining...

By Lynn Boulton, Range of Light Group Chair In September 2021, the Inyo National Forest approved an exploratory drilling project on the north side of Hot Creek, about six miles east of Mammoth Lakes, California under a categorical exclusion. A...

Fish Slough is a series of springs in the Eastern Sierra north of Bishop, Calif. Caught between groundwater pumping by Los Angeles Water and Power’s (LADWP) water diversions to Los Angeles and local ranchers, farmers, and residents of the Tri-Valley...