Join Desert Survivors and the Sierra Club Range of Light Group, and featured Bodie Hills expert Nora Hogg, for this virtual presentation on how and why protecting the Bodie Hills can help fulfill state, national, and global 30×30 goals.
The Bodie Hills lie between the Sierra Nevada and the Great Basin Desert on the California/Nevada border. Its landscape is both scenic and ecologically diverse with volcanic mountains, aspen groves, meadows, and ephemeral lakes. The views from its peaks are stunning. The Bodie Hills provide habitat for a variety of species including the imperiled Bi-State Sage Grouse. The place is also rich in pre- and post-colonial cultural history.
Jora Fogg knows much about this special place. She is Policy Director for Friends of the Inyo and leads the Bodie Hills Conservation Partnership––a coalition of organizations opposed to industrial-scale gold mining in the Bodie Hills and advocating for its permanent protection. In 2020 she completed a comprehensive Lands with Wilderness Character inventory of the California portion of the Bodie Hills.
Full details and registration at sc.org/bodie-hills
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Of Course, Jorah Fogg knows all, in spite of not being born yet when my family moved here.
Unless you’re Paiute, don’t brag about your length of stay in the valley: it means nothing.
Life of Confucius, The Renaissance, The Medical Revolution, and the arrival of
Ask a Parent Clan in Bodie.
Defining moments in human knowledge that we can all agree on.
So your family has been trashing the area for how many years?
Frenemys of the Inyo
Gerald
If it weren’t for FOI, the new name for most of the Owens Valley would be “The Owens Valley wasteland…
Yeah I doubt it…
BS
Anything to keep the clown-show out like a few years ago, when the “Cougar Gold” mining ventures were telling their lies to the folk of Bridgeport…how they’d “save the town and economy”, as they tear-up the land and dump their waste…Sarah Palin’s cronies and associates had to find another area to feed their crap to when the people of Bridgeport shooed them out and away…
Dennison, Move back to LA, you aren’t a local, no matter how hard you try. It’s obvious that you are either retired (like me) or on the Public Dole in some way, so of course you don’t care about the crappy economy. People need jobs, we like mining jobs here, it is legacy. Not to be rude, but all your gonna mine in LA is Dog Poo. Save the whales, nuke the miners, eat “meat” made in a lab to save “animal lives”. I used to work in some labs, I would eat only what I can see harvested rather then eat cloned meat (I mean turn vegetarian) SAD. Vegetarian: old Indigenous word for bad hunter.
Ask a parent
SO MUCH stupid stuff you’re saying there, about me, personal attacks where I live, used to live, if I’m retired or mooching off the Government to make a living….
FYI,I am semi-retired…and I’ve never lived or worked anywhere close to L.A.
Next comes the “great white hunter” remarks, and false statements about the Bridgeport people “wanting” mining operations, and the hell with the land, close-by Wilderness areas and it’s Wildlife…and a Ghost Town
If the people of Bridgeport were “in favor” of mining in the Bodie Hills, and, if allowed certain to encroach not only on the land and Animals, but the Ghost Town of Bodie itself one way or the other, tell me in all your wisdom, then why was it shot down, by not only Bridgeport citizens, but by town councils ,Mono County supervisors and committees representing the people ?
Should they all have believed the lies “Cougar Gold” was telling about “saving the economy” ,hiring “hundreds of Bridgeport residents”and their promise to dump their waste east into Nevada and not into Mono County back in 2010 ?
And then all fear their threats about either sueing the County for access and giving time-limits before they started doing it anyway ?
NEWS FLASH !!
Mining nowdays isn’t the same as it used to be, like in the 1800’s,with people going into an area in covered wagons with their family, bringing gold pans, shovels and tents to live in, and respecting the land and wildlife.
NOW it’s big time operations, encroachment, material-dumping and doing what it takes for big companies with lots of materials and machinery to make their billions.
Cougar Gold….shot down..
The recent attempt to mine just outside Death Valley National Park…shot down…
….next ….
I don’t usually or like to do personal attacks on subjects or people ,but with you, may I make you a suggestion ?
If you’re so concerned about the economy, something WE have very little power over except to complain about anyway, or think the answer to “fix it” are million dollar mining operations moving into our towns and areas, maybe do as I did when I retired and realized not enough income to really comfortably live on….get a part-time job to help out…
“I don’t usually or like to do personal attacks on subjects or people”
Are you kidding me! 90% of you posts are derogatory towards Republican leaders and republican leaning people. All you do is bash people that don’t share your leftist beliefs.
BobK
When you have “republican leaders” like Ron Desantis, Hershel Walker ,Kevin McCarthy, Marjorie Taylor Green, pedo-Gaetz and their leader, trump himself…and the fools that continue to worship and vote for them, what’s to attack or laugh about ?
Dear Dennison,
Sorry, NO, I have plenty of Cash, don’t need a job, if I did I would have one. But I was a government DRONE for many years, in fact, in environmental, ooh, I might be able to approve your permit! And OOH, that government pension really makes me all soft and warm feeling, just like you, the masses can F-off, RIGHT? NOT! ***Removed***. Get a part time job and help out? WTF does that mean. Help out WHO?
There isn’t a part-time job around here that could pay me enough to go back into the hornet’s nest of idiots. Or just pay me enough, period…
Sorry you are too poor to get it, young people need jobs, or they will leave the area, and they can, and do, and have done for at least the 40 years I’ve been here. How many of your children have had to go elsewhere for gainful employment?
I just threw up in my mouth…..please stay out of OUR backyard….we have taken care of it for years, and we don’t need your help. Go take care of the Bay Area … they are a mess.
So, are you pro-industrial gold mining or against industrial gold mining in the Bodie Hills?
Speaking of throwing up – It is not YOUR backyard. It is public land. The Bodie Hills belong to everyone – not just the entitled residents and business owners in Bridgeport.
mono resident..
Not to mention, unless I’m mistaken the Bodie Hills is a designated Wilderness Area, not some land-grab and/or a money-making area and venture for mining companies and others to come into and profit from..
And then when their “operations” would be no longer profiting millions of dollars, they up and leave for the rest of us, to either babysit and clean-up after…or for us and the Wildlife to just deal with the trash and destruction they left behind…
I promise you this…very few people living in Bridgeport have the same view as “Mono Person” does about the beautiful area they live in.
You are mistaken, but you have been told that before. The Bodie hills are a study area, not a Wilderness.
BobK
A WILDERNESS study area, what seems well protected by the Bodie Hills Conservation Partnership and FOI , among others, from those that see and want it as a place for big-money companies to come along and try to destroy it, while making their fortune..
And maybe even more important, from those living nearby that see the area as a place they see fit to believe the lies those companies tell the folk about producing “hundreds of jobs ” to the locals and turning it into a construction-type site encroaching into the environment, it’s Wildlife and anything else in their way….including the nearby Ghost Town…
David – I know the people of Bridgeport all too well – lived there for a while and sat through several public meetings concerning Cougar Gold. No offense intended but I don’t agree with your “very few people”. Not all but not “very few”.
So true the Sierra club is responsible for so much damage to our national forest on the West Coast.
I can remember in the late seventies when they went on a campaign to shut down all the sawmills and lumber industry.
It took them 20 years but they succeeded in taking away thousands of jobs in the process of leaving lumber standing that was unmanaged.
Because the Sierra club never instituted plans on managing Forest.
So we just prevented fires and the forest over grew to the point that it exceeded the available water supply.
The trees became the bark beetles moved in and everything’s been burning like mad ever since.
Some people say this constitutes echo-terrorism and I tend to agree with them.
The other thing the Sierra club and the mono lake committee did was make claims that they saved Owens River gorge.
When in fact it was ca trout a group of fishermen who’s merely looked up the CFR code of regulations and realize the laws existed they just needed to be implemented.
I feel that the Sierra club and mono lake committee were very aware of the cfrs being in place but yet they continue to collect money.
Then you have an area where the big horn sheep live well the Sierra club did it again they got regulations past to protect the wild burrows.
One wild burrow consumes as much vegetation is 10 bighorn sheep.
The Sierra club played stupid on this until they paid a speaker 5k come in to speak about the bighorn sheep and he explain what happened.
He had to exit out the side door as the crowd became unruly and attacking itself.
So if you don’t live here don’t tell us what to do cuz obviously where you live is much worse.
AMEN
“echo terrorism”? – and I genuinely have not seen so much confusing “compost” in any one post in my life. I’d give you a few clues but my guess is you are not capable of comprehending reality.