by Max Wilbert | May 14, 2022 | Reflection
Tomorrow marks 16 months since I set up camp to Protect Thacker Pass with my friend Will Falk, the only man crazy enough to join me on a mile-high mountainside in the dead of winter to protect a wild and beautiful land from an open-pit lithium mine. Since then,...
by Max Wilbert | Apr 4, 2022 | Press Releases
Contact Max Wilbert and Will Falk FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE RENO, NV — The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has been disobeying court orders and making “reckless, false statements” in a deliberate attempt to abuse the justice system and limit judicial oversight, according...
by Max Wilbert | Mar 7, 2022 | Reflection
Today, I climbed a mountain above Thacker Pass, and found fresh mountain lion tracks. The snow was packed in icy slabs at 7,000 feet, and as I tracked the cat I saw where she had slipped, spread her paws wide, and extended her claws to grip the ice. Cats don’t...
by Max Wilbert | Mar 4, 2022 | Resistance Updates
The Thacker Pass lithium mine will use millions of gallons of water each and every day, draining water from one of the most arid regions of the United States. We are working to prevent this mine, and the harms to the watershed this mine will cause, harms to the ground...
by Max Wilbert | Mar 2, 2022 | Reflection
Over the past 14 months that Will Falk and I have been fighting the Thacker Pass lithium mine, one of the most common questions we’re asked by journalists has been “So if you oppose electric cars, what is your solution?” At first, the question seems...
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