VIEWS AND LESSONS FROM THE CRAGGY CLIFFS OF CONGLOMERATE MESA By Bryan Hatchell, Desert Policy Associate, Friends of the Inyo From the right angle on the southern slopes of Conglomerate Mesa, one can see the fractured polygons of the southern end of the Owens Lake beaming in translucent pinks, sunburst

 KEEP LONG VALLEY GREEN CAMPAIGN - WORKING FOR EQUITABLE WATER SHARING IN THE EASTERN SIERRA By Wendy Schneider, Executive Director, Friends of the Inyo Brief History In the 1940’s as part of its construction of the Los Angeles Aqueduct system (LAA), the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP)

RACISM, DROUGHT AND HISTORY: Young Native Americans fight back as water disappears Gigi Coyle  recently traveled home to Payahuunadu, CA from the NW and decided to take more of the "back routes"  choosing Klamath Falls as where to stop … following the waterways, wanting to be near water for the

INTERVIEW WITH ANDY LIPKIS With Kate Bunney Kate: Can you share a story of the moment you fell in love with water? Andy: When I first read this question, what came up was being at the Tinnemaha campground. I was preparing to go on a four day fast up in

WATER WALK - VIRGINIA TO NORTH CAROLINA, USA By Crystal Cavalier-Keck I was born and raised in the rolling hills of the Piedmont area of North Carolina, roughly Northern Alamance County. My family is from this area spanning back 400 years, and before that we migrated from the Ohio valley

LAND WISDOM AND THE SPINE OF ATHENS By Georgia Dousikou “This landscape is an ancestor who has seen it all, has known it all…” Kostas Ouranis, Greek poet, travel writer and journalist. This initiative arose out of a deep calling to reconnect nature with culture in Greece. To welcome the

THE CAPE FEAR RIVER WATCH By Audrey Dunn, Outreach & Programs Officer, Cape Fear River Watch When I first accepted an Environmental Education Americorps position at Cape Fear River Watch, I honestly didn’t know the first thing about the water quality of the Cape Fear River Basin. I just thought

WHERE THERE ONCE WAS WATER Interview with Brittany App Filmmaker 'Where there once was Water' Can you share a story of when you first fell in love with water?  As it does, I think the falling in love took time. Through a long-running exploration and curiosity around water access, the

FROM THE MINNESOTA HOME TEAM By Marian Moore The Mississippi River where Enbridge plans to cross, photo by Marian Moore     It is December 14, 2020, and here I am, a sixty-four- year-old woman, in a jail cell in northern Minnesota’s Aitkin County during a global pandemic.  I

ON WOMEN, COURAGE AND CO-CONSPIRACY by Marsela Pećanac photos by Robert Oroz I have recently been grappling with the notion of courage.  I met Asha Bandele, a wonderful woman activist leader, at a conference where she said: “If you want to do anything, you need to do it with courage.”