by Max Wilbert | Sep 23, 2022 | Resistance Updates
This land right behind me is Thacker Pass, northern Nevada, not far south of the Oregon border. And this place is under threat right now because there’s lithium under the ground here. Lithium’s being called the new white gold, the new energy resource,...
by Max Wilbert | Sep 18, 2022 | Resistance Updates
On September 2nd, a series of suspicious comments were posted on Protect Thacker Pass websites and social media platforms. The comments targeted Protect Thacker Pass and specific people including Will Falk, co-founder of Protect Thacker Pass and attorney representing...
by Max Wilbert | Sep 7, 2022 | Project updates, Resistance Updates
The fight to Protect Thacker Pass continues, as mine construction has not yet begun and we have been successful thus far in paperwrenching, lawsuits, and broad-based public opposition to slow the Thacker Pass lithium mine project. Legal challenges filed by local...
by Max Wilbert | Jun 9, 2022 | Reflection
Land of green sage and blueberry skies I have loved you in every season From blizzards to heat waves Watching your lizards in the sun sage-grouse dancing in your folds Pronghorn stepping gently across your skin Cougar tracks high on your mountainsides Newly hatched...
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,...
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