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Documents show that two federal agencies have been at odds over the border wall project across the Tijuana River Valley since it was first announced in August of 2020. ....
Decades of ‘individual choice’ rhetoric hasn’t gotten us closer to solving climate change, the trash problem or even the massive destruction that comes with building mines. If we still consume at the rate Westerners do, it’s likely ecological collapse will continue to march forward. ....
The hastily approved project went forward without comment from the Fort McDermitt Paiute Shoshone Tribe. Image credit: Russel Albert Daniels / High Country News Feb. 18, 2021 From the print edition Editor’s note: In April, the Fort McDermitt Paiute Shoshone tribal council voted unanimously to withdraw the tribe from its agreement with Lithium Nevada, based on a petition from tribal members. In the Great Basin Desert of northern Nevada and southern Oregon, Thacker pass cuts a wide swath of sagebrush and bunch grasses between narrow ribbons of mountain ranges. The region is a caldera a collapsed volcano that formed an ancient lakebed. For millennia, Indigenous peoples used the verdant valley as a pathway between their winter and summer homes. Today, the Fort McDermitt Paiute Shoshone Tribe’s reservation is located nearby, along with the small agricultural community of Orovada, clusters of buildings surrounded by circular ....