Author Josh Jackson’s The Enduring Wild invites readers to explore California’s forgotten BLM lands, including the Amargosa River—revealing their beauty, fragility, and urgent need for protection.
By Scott H Williams, Restoration Project Manager In February 2025, our organization entered an exciting new phase with the initiation of two major restoration projects in the California portion of the Amargosa River watershed. I am fortunate to have a new role with...
By Mason Voehl, Executive Director In a remarkable year for the Amargosa River and Basin, the California Wildlife Conservation Board (WCB) has awarded two critical grants to support the resilience and biodiversity of this unique desert ecosystem. These grants, one...
By Mason Voehl, Executive Director, Amargosa Conservancy On a clear and windless October morning, I climbed aboard a Cessna 210 plane alongside Tribal and rural community leaders, journalists, land managers, and fellow advocates to experience something...
Amargosa Conservancy is pleased to introduce you to the newest member of our Board of Directors, Louise Mathias. Louise is a 15-year resident of the Mojave Desert, whose interest in and passion for the delicate ecosystem of the Amargosa Basin began in 2014, when she...
Claire Vaye Watkins reading to the protest campout at the Yellow Pine solar construction project in Clark County, Nevada. Photo used with permission from Shannon Salter, 2021. mojavegreen.org It’s a beautiful day on the Amargosa River. The heat is predicted to...
by Scott H Williams As an environmental scientist, I wonder at times whether the detached, data-driven approach to the scientific study of the natural world inevitably alienates us from having a deep spiritual appreciation for nature. Does quantitatively analyzing the...
by Mathilda Guerrero Indigenous Voices of Nevada The Amargosa Conservancy’s fight for a mineral withdrawal in the ecologically sensitive Amargosa Basin stands as a testament to the power of Indigenous leadership and the amplification of Indigenous voices. This...
Amargosa Conservancy is pleased to announce our 2024 Summer Speaker Series! This third offering of our virtual Summer Speaker Series will feature dedicated employees from the National Park Service, Bureau of Land Management, and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. These...
Science is and always will be a pillar of of the work our organization does to protect the Amargosa Basin. For the last 20 years, Amargosa Conservancy has worked alongside local governments, state and federal agencies, non-profit partners, and researchers to develop...
by Mason Voehl The older I get, the more interested I seem to become in the flow of time and how we mark it. Perhaps as a result of my particular occupation, I have come to see time very much as I do a river: as a fluid body in motion. In this modern era where our...
The story of conservation in the Amargosa Basin has been largely written with the ink of collaboration. Looking back over the 19 year history of our organization, virtually every success we can claim has come from investments in partnerships. When the Amargosa vole...
Amargosa CRMP Scoping Comments A Project of Friends of the River and the California Wilderness Coalition View this letter as a PDF View this letter as a PDF
Prepared by Carol A. Corbett Great Basin Research 5036 N. Cimarron Rd. Las Vegas, NV 89149 For U.S. Department of Interior Bureau of Land Management 2800 Cottage Way Sacramento, CA 95825 Order No. BAP990119 January, 2000 View the full 30-page report as a PDF...