by Max Wilbert | Feb 21, 2021 | Reflection
On January 15th, my friend Will Falk and I launched a protest on the slopes of the Montana Mountains (Northern Paiute / Western Shoshone territory) here in northern Nevada, aiming to stop a proposed $1.3 billion open-pit lithium mine that would rip open this wild...
by Will Falk | Feb 7, 2021 | Reflection
If you look across Thacker Pass from the shoulders of the Montana mountains, the land looks like a quilt the Double-H mountains in the south pulled up to their chin to keep warm during the cold winter nights. The hills that roll towards the valley floor are checkered...
by Protect Thacker Pass | Feb 6, 2021 | Reflection
By Alex Eisenberg, February 6, 2021 During my last quarter of college I learned about the concept of The Personal Responsibility Vortex. This concept (along with the critical thinking and systems thinking skills I honed at Evergreen) revolutionized how I thought about...
by Rebecca Wildbear | Feb 5, 2021 | Reflection
Flowering sage covers the desert. Layers of rolling hills and a few rocky cliffs shape the horizon. I wander up a dry creek bed lined with trees on Thacker Pass in Humboldt County, Nevada. The dry air is thick with the fragrance of sage, mixed with juniper and pinion....
by Will Falk | Feb 3, 2021 | Reflection
The Montana mountains standing above Thacker Pass in the north taught me that faith does not move mountains, but gravity, volcanoes, erosion, and moving tectonic plates do. A few days ago, while I was struggling with a lack of faith, two ravens circled above by head...
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