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EcoFlight Photos Show Why Long Valley Must Be Kept Green By EcoFlight Passenger Wendy Schneider, Executive Director of Friends of the Inyo On Tuesday, October 19th, the morning was cold and bright. Four hardy souls met at the Mammoth airport to go up in a small plane over Long Valley, in southern Mono County. The purpose of the flight was to create a video to be used as part of the Keep Long Valley Green Coalition’s campaign to protect Long Valley from the efforts of the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power to dry it out by disallowing historic…
By Lindsay Butcher, Lead Trail Ambassador, Friends of the Inyo Did you know that driving off road is illegal in Death Valley National Park? Even so, people get a thrill out of driving in the Park’s open spaces, and OHV-trespass all over the hundreds of miles of roadside terrain. In a matter of minutes, destructive, eyesore tracks that take years, or even decades to heal are left upon the land like scars. Friends of the Inyo, in partnership with the National Park Service and Great Basin Institute, has put together a restoration crew to expedite the healing process. November kicks…
Conservation groups, including Friends of the Inyo, sued the U.S. Forest Service today to stop exploratory drilling in California’s eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains that threatens an endangered fish and a dwindling population of bi-state sage grouse.
Experience Dark Desert Skies at Conglomerate Mesa with Friends of the Inyo, Nov. 6 – 7 There are just a handful of spaces left for this outing that promises to be an exceptional learning experience under new-moon skies in a non-light-polluted part of the Northern Mojave Desert on Death Valley’s doorstep. Friends of the Inyo’s Dark Desert Skies Campout at Conglomerate Mesa will happen November 6-7, the weekend when Daylight Saving Time comes to an end, which means you will enjoy an extra hour of stargazing. Click on the media player button below to listen to Bryan Hatchell, FOI’s Desert…
It’s pronounced “bah-hah-dah” This is our final post for this year’s National Hispanic Heritage Month, which ends this Friday, Oct. 15. Since Sept. 15, when it began, Friends of the Inyo has been celebrating with our community by sharing the meanings of just a few Spanish-language words in the nature and conservation arena that have made their way into English. Today’s word is bajada, the feminine form of bajado, the past participle of the verb bajar, which means to descend, go down, take down, or get off, as from a horse. According to Merriam-Webster, a bajada in English means a broad…
Vol. 1 – Issue 5, of the Keep Long Valley Green Newsletter, “Every Last Drop,” is hot off the press!
Read how water ties all of us together, no matter what our backgrounds, and how California Natives taught Europeans in the 19th Century state-of-the-art irrigation methods. Happy reading…and if you like what you read, happy sharing!