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The Amargosa Wild & Scenic River winding its way through Shoshone, CABy Cameron Mayer, Executive Director With so much happening at the federal level this past month, this is an update to FAB Friends and supporters regarding a couple of key policy developments...
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By Cameron Mayer Established in 1996 by Presidential Proclamation, the 1.9 million acre expanse of lush canyons, stark badlands, and other natural landscape features that make up Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument (GSENM) in southeastern Utah are one of a...
By Len Warren, Volunteer Board Member Along the Amargosa River, I lead many bird walks. Often, someone will ask me, “What’s your favorite bird?” Years ago, I would just say that I didn’t have one, that they were all equally interesting. I felt quite scientific, and...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...