Editor’s note: This article originally appeared on the website of the Carbon Tax Center. It is republished here with permission.
Though I’ve hiked all over the west, I’ve never been to Nevada’s northwest corner. On the map it’s a broad, empty strip from I-80 to the Oregon line. For hundreds of miles, it is in fact wild country — and far from empty, biologically, ecologically.
Falk and Wilbert’s encampment. All Thacker Pass photos are from Protect Thacker Pass, used with permission
In January, a pair of activists, Will Falk and Max Wilbert, pitched a tent in one of the loveliest valleys of the region, seeking to rally resistance to a proposed lithium mine on public land. The place where they’ve established their protest camp is called Thacker Pass.