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Supporter Updates on the Amargosa Basin National Monument Proposal
By Cameron Mayer, Executive Director It has been a whirlwind of advocacy activity here at FAB in the past few months! As such, I have some exciting updates to share. We’ve hit major milestones in our campaign to have the public lands of the Amargosa Basin designated...
Fall Newsletter 2025
Our Fall newsletter is out! Please click here to read it.
Death Valley Junction Mining-Era History
A Brief Introduction to Death Valley Junction Mining-Era History - by Lee Adams, board member Home to the Timbisha Shoshone (Newe) and Chemehuevi/Southern Paiute (Nuwu/Nuwuvi) since time immemorial, mineral extraction by nonnative settlers in the late 1800s brought...
Friends of the Amargosa Basin expresses disapproval over the proposed reversal of the Public Lands Rule
Shoshone, CA - Friends of the Amargosa Basin has issued the following public statement from its Executive Director Cameron Mayer expressing disappointment and disapproval over the Department of the Interior’s (DOI) proposed reversal of the Conservation and Landscape...
Summer Newsletter 2025
Our Summer newsletter is out! Please click here to read it.
A Brief Walk Through Deep Time
By Darrel Cowan The oldest rock in the region of the proposed Amargosa Basin National Monument is about 1.7 billion years old. We informally call this geologic unit the “basement,” because it sits under the entire region and all the younger sedimentary formations you...