Day 615 of Protect Thacker Pass

Day 615 of Protect Thacker Pass

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,...
16 Months of Protect Thacker Pass

16 Months of Protect Thacker Pass

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,...
A quiet evening at Thacker Pass

A quiet evening at Thacker Pass

This is a video from a quiet evening at Thacker Pass. The only sounds that night were a frog croaking, the creek flowing, and birds heading off to bed. The stillness and peace of a night like this is valuable beyond anything money can buy. This quiet may be broken...
The Watersheds of Thacker Pass

The Watersheds of Thacker Pass

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...