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April 2025 Newsletter
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Statement Regarding Interior Secretary Order #3418 and Threats to National Monuments
For Immediate Release February 5, 2025Contact: Cameron Mayer, Executive Director,Friends of the Amargosa Basin(562) 233-7874 Shoshone, CA - Friends of the Amargosa Basin has issued the following public statement from its Executive Director Cameron Mayer...
Two New National Monuments in California
For Immediate Release January 7, 2025Contact: Cameron Mayer, Executive Director,Friends of the Amargosa Basin(562) 233-7874 Friends of the Amargosa Basin thanks the Biden administration for designating Chuckwalla and Sáttítla Highlands National Monuments. Shoshone,...
Statement on the Public Meeting Held for the Proposed Sáttítla National Monument
For Immediate Release December 10, 2024Contact: Cameron Mayer, Executive Director,Friends of the Amargosa Basin(562) 233-7874 Friends of the Amargosa Basin thanks the USDA and stands with the Pit River Tribe in urging the Biden administration to designate the...
Volunteer Spotlight: Mina Nada
How did you get involved with Friends of the Amargosa Basin? I first got involved with Friends of the Amargosa Basin through my friend Cameron Mayer, whom I met during grad school. When Cameron reached out about an opportunity to participate in habitat restoration...
Spring Brook Winter Restoration
Work in the vicinity of the Shoshone wetlands and the Spring brook that runs through them resumed on October 17, 2023, when Cameron Mayer with Friends of the Amargosa helped Christiana Manville of the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (USFWS) monitor the plants that...