In the May Juniper, take action to protect Hot Creek from mining, help water protectors, and learn about some of our summer volunteer opportunities!
Events
In the March Juniper, check out the 2025 Owens Lake Bird Festival (our 10th annual!), more opportunities to steward the land, and read about our awesome SnowSchool program.
In the February Juniper, check out a sneak peak of the 2025 Owens Lake Bird Festival (our 10th annual!), volunteer opportunities, and awesome community events. Don’t miss it!
In the January Juniper, learn about our recent trip to Conglomerate Mesa, this year’s Owens Lake Bird Festival, and opportunities to get involved. Happy New Year!
The December Juniper is packed with information on Giving Tuesday, the Backcountry Film Festival, recent events that FOI Staff participated in, like the Sierra Nevada Alliance Conference, the Western Mining Action Network Conference and the 30th Anniversary Celebration of the California Desert Protection Act.
The November Juniper is THE place for volunteer opportunities: citizen science, hiking in wilderness, and more, full of fun events, like the Backcountry Film Festival (whose excited for winter?!), and even features some seriously cute adoptable horses and burros–but you won’t know more until you check it out!
A summary of the Trail Ambassador’s 2024 season: Intro by Stewardship Director, Lindsay Butcher I am both sad, and slightly happy, to announce the finale of the 2024 TA season. The crew worked HARD this year, but hopefully they had some time to enjoy themselves in the backcountry. We had Nature Yoga, Snake Walks, Art Walks, Edible Plant Walks, Volunteer Events, Cleanups, Camping, lots of Hiking, Campsite Monitoring, and everything in between. This season was challenging: funding was scarce, projects were logistically difficult, injuries were sustained, cars decided to break down… but it was made all the more rewarding for…
We have a special request for our Friends: We need YOUR help to restore the Rock Creek boardwalk! We are restoring a section of boardwalk on the Upper Rock Creek Trail in the Inyo National Forest and we need to raise $15,000 to tackle the remaining sections of the Upper Rock Creek Trail that were damaged and left in a dangerous condition by runoff in recent years. In August 2024, Friends of the Inyo finished a new section of boardwalk on the Upper Rock Creek Lake trail. It took 13 people ALL day on August 10th to dismantle the old…
A summary of the Trail Ambassador’s season thus far (time is flying!): Intro by Stewardship Director, Lindsay Butcher I said it before, and I’ll say it again: This season has zipped past, blink and you’ll miss it! The TAs are still out on trails clearing downed trees, collecting water quality data, educating visitors on LNT, picking up after folks who leave trash behind 🙁 and leading the last of thier interpretive hikes in September. Most of our Volunteer events have already happened: so far we’ve- installed a new section of the Rock Creek Boardwalk, deconstruted obsolete grazing fencing in the…