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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...
25th Anniversary of National Conservation Lands Program
As July comes to a close, we are still celebrating the 25th anniversary of the creation of the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) National Conservation Lands (NCL) program. This landmark program was born on July 12, 2000 out of a forward-thinking idea that the BLM...
The Threat of Selling off Public Lands in the Amargosa Basin
A Breakdown of Senator Mike Lee’s (R-UT) public land sell-off budget amendment and what it means for the lands and communities on the California side of the Amargosa Basin. On June 14th, 2025, Senator Mike Lee of Utah introduced an amendment as part of the process of...