– By Alison Cercy On a weekend in March, we welcomed the Great Old Broads for Wilderness to our restoration worksites in Sperry Wash. The worksites were planned out, all of our tools were packed and sorted, the temperature had increased a solid ten degrees, and...
-By Rhyan Schicker The morning of Saturday, March 25th, the campground in Afton Canyon Natural Area was full of excitement. Staff from the Amargosa Conservancy, BLM, Sierra Club, and Leave No Trace completed final preparations for the arrival of the campers. We were...
Below is an excerpt from the DRECP Record of Decision – Appendix A. The entire Record of Decision can be found here, but it is a long document and maybe not something that you would think would be interesting. Yet the section regarding the Amargosa is a nice...
It’s the biggest news in a generation for conservation in the Amargosa Basin. On September 14th, Secretary Jewell announced the permanent protection of over 600,000 acres of land in the Amargosa River watershed. These protections will mean that in sum, nearly...
In coming weeks, we expect the Bureau of Land Management to finalize the Desert Renewable Energy and Conservation Plan (DRECP), in which the public lands of the Amargosa Basin are likely to be designated at California Desert Conservation Lands. To celebrate, we are...
The following editorial by Amargosa Conservancy Policy Director Patrick Donnelly ran in the Inyo Register on August 23, 2016. If you’d like to view a PDF of the article, click here. Opportunities for Conservation in Southern Inyo County by Patrick...
