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 Max Wilbert | Feb 2, 2021 | Reflection
The ecological foundations of life on this planet are crumbling, and more cars are not the answer. By Max Wilbert February 2, 2021 I used to believe that electric cars would save the planet. Like so many others, I saw the TV commercials. A family rolled smoothly...
by Max Wilbert | Feb 1, 2021 | Reflection
In Nevada’s Thacker Pass, will ancient stone become lithium become batteries become money? Will 16 million years of sacred silence be shattered? by MAX WILBERT February 1, 2021 I sit on a clifftop in northern Nevada, an hour into the desert from the nearest town...
by Max Wilbert | Jan 28, 2021 | Reflection
by Max Wilbert, Jan 28, 2021 I have heard it said that one of humans most impressive traits is our ability to delude ourselves. Nowhere is this more clear than here at Thacker Pass. Fourteen days ago, my friend Will Falk and I set up a protest camp here to stop...
by Max Wilbert | Jan 27, 2021 | Reflection, Resistance Updates
The first time I came to Thacker Pass, I walked up the old dirt road heading back towards the canyons of the Montana Mountains. Eventually, I came to a gate along a barbed-wire fence, and I saw one of the biggest, oldest sagebrush bushes I have ever seen. She is tall,...
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