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UPDATES ON THE BLOG

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04 May
10:06

Get Involved in 30×30: Helping to Conserve 30 Percent of California’s Lands and Coastal Waters by 2030

By Jora Fogg, FOI Policy Director Last month, in conjunction with Earth Day, the California Natural Resources Agency (CNRA) released their final Pathways to 30×30: Accelerating Conservation of California’s Nature strategy to forward the global effort to conserve 30 percent of lands and coastal waters by 2030 (30×30). The plan focuses on protecting the state’s biodiversity, advancing equitable access to nature and addressing the climate crisis.    The Pathways document was crafted by a dedicated team at CNRA through months of public engagement. More than 4,100 Californians engaged with the state to provide input through more than a dozen public meetings,…

By Louis Medina in Conglomerate MesaPolicyStoriesUpdates
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16 April
15:22

VOLUME 2, ISSUE 6 OF “EVERY LAST DROP,” THE OFFICIAL E-NEWSLETTER OF THE KEEP LONG VALLEY GREEN COALITION, IS HOT OFF THE PRESS!

In this issue, we are thrilled to republish content from the Mono Lake Committee’s Winter-Spring 2022 Newsletter, highlighting the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power’s extraction of groundwater from Mono Basin using a tunnel! (Photo from LADWP). Read all about it and share this information, especially with your friends in the Los Angeles area – they need to know the water they drink is coming from our part of California, and decades-long water extraction has helped lower Mono Lake water levels drastically!

By Louis Medina in Keep Long Valley Green
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07 April
08:15

The April (Earth Day Month) Issue of our Juniper Newsletter is Here!

With our planet in climate crisis, we have plenty of ideas about things you can do to help the Earth – beginning with activities in our corner of the world, the beautiful lands of the Eastern Sierra, or “Payahuunadu,” The Land of Flowing Water, as the original Paiute inhabitants called this magical place. Also find inspiration in a testimonial of two living beings (a depressed human and a starving kitten) that rescued each other on Earth Day four years ago, and how that story encourages reflection on what we can do to “rescue” our planet. Happy reading…happy sharing!

By Louis Medina in Newsletter
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05 April
20:34

Still Celebrating a BIG Win for Conglomerate Mesa!

Still Celebrating a BIG Win for Conglomerate Mesa!  By Kayla Browne, Desert Lands Organizer After four years of defending Conglomerate Mesa from the greedy hands of K2 Gold and its subsidiary Mojave Precious Metals, we finally got a temporary win. On March 17th, K2 Gold announced in a press release an “indefinite suspension of activities at the Mojave Project.” K2 is the 11th company to threaten the Mesa since the 1980s.  Conglomerate Mesa, the ancestral homelands and traditional territories of the Timbisha Shoshone and Paiute-Shoshone Tribes, is located in a remote area of the Inyo Mountains, east of Keeler, on…

By Louis Medina in Conglomerate Mesa
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05 April
15:15

FOI Supports the “Worth More Than Gold Bike Tour” April 21 – 27

“Worth More Than Gold Bike Tour” April 21 – 27 By Emily Markstein and Amber Rassler: The dream for this bike tour began last winter when Amber and I spent our weekends biking the Eastern Sierra. As we wandered roads less traveled, we dreamed about integrating our love for biking with our passion for environmental advocacy and action. At the heart of our conversations was the desire to add extrinsic value and purpose to our intrinsic weekend activity. After months of conversation, we saw an opportunity to make our dreams a reality. In May of 2021, we discovered a foreign…

By Louis Medina in Bodie HillsConglomerate MesaLong Valley Mining
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