by Elisabeth Robson | Nov 7, 2021 | Project updates
By Cayte Bosler, for Inside Climate News November 7, 2021 Deep below the tangled roots of the old-growth sagebrush of Thacker Pass, in an extinct super-volcano, lies one of the world’s largest deposits of lithium—a key element for the transition to clean energy. But...
by Will Falk | Sep 16, 2021 | Project updates, Resistance Updates
After we sued the Bureau of Land Management for failing to consult with Native tribes before permitting the destruction of sacred Peehee mu’huh (Thacker Pass), BLM has found Max Wilbert and I in trespass for bathrooms that were constructed in Peehee mu’huh...
by Max Wilbert | Sep 3, 2021 | Project updates, Reflection
Earlier today, Judge Miranda Du rejected requests from the Reno-Sparks Indian Tribe, Burns Paiute Tribe, and Atsa Koodakuh wyh Nuwu/People of Red Mountain to put an emergency halt on planned archeological digging for the Thacker Pass lithium mine. As I watch Lithium...
by Elisabeth Robson | Sep 1, 2021 | Project updates
by Caelen McQuilkin Published in the Opinion section of The Mammoth Times on August 19, 2021 Drive slightly east and then five hours north out of Lee Vining, and you’ll find yourself in Thacker Pass, a wide-open landscape of sagebrush and sloping hills, achingly...
by Max Wilbert | Aug 29, 2021 | Project updates
Live blogging notes from the preliminary injunction hearing, Friday August 27, 2021 The wind is strong from the east this morning at #ThackerPass. Coyotes howling. Hummingbirds in the air. A jackrabbit hopped through camp in the pre-dawn. The land is alive and awake....
by Elisabeth Robson | Aug 29, 2021 | Project updates
While researching the history of Thacker Pass / Peehee mu’huh for legal work, Will Falk found this diary entry, titled Field Notes of the Subdivision Lines in Township 44, from Oct 18, 1868: General Description About one half only of this Township is fit for...
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