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amargosa valley. via flickr

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American Auto Trail-Death Valley National Park (Part 1) (Death Valley Jct to Furnace Creek Ranch CA)

American Auto Trail-Death Valley National Park (Part 1) (Death Valley Jct to Furnace Creek Ranch CA) https://youtu.be/O1No9NxMA3A Part 1 explores from Death Valley Junction, traveling into Death Valley National Park through the Eastern entrance.

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2021

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Prefeitura de Amargosa anuncia seis dias São João

Com seis dias de festa, o São João terá o tema “São João raiz – Aqui, o forró tem história”, com mais de 30 artistas e expectativa de atrair mais de 200 mil pessoas. A Prefeitura de Amargosa, um dos destinos mais procurados para o período junino, anunciou as datas para o São João 2024. A festa será realizada durante seis dias, de 19 a 24 de junho, sob o tema “São João raiz – Aqui, o forró tem…

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for you to find what I see in you

Amargosa Desert Memorial Cemetery

Amargosa Valley, Nevada

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Amargosa Toad

By Gary Nafis

Center for Biological Diversity

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Alien Cathouse Brothel,

Amargosa Valley, Nevada, 2020.

The real thing and legal!

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Sometimes You’re Sitting in a Parked Car and See Amazing Colors and Patterns on a Mountainside (Death Valley National Park) by Mark Stevens Via Flickr: While at the Death Valley Pay Station with a view looking to the southwest to a mountainside of the Amargosa Range. This is in Death Valley National Park. What I was attempting to do in capturing this image was finding a balance between the colors with the patterns and shapes on this mountainside and that of the skies above as a color contrast.

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" The Amargosa Valley " //© Austin Pedersen

Music: Tony Anderson - The King

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NIGHT AMARGOSA DESERT BY AUGUSTUS VINCENT TACK (1935)

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Excerpt from this story from Inside Climate News:

Eight thousand years.

That’s roughly how long it takes for snowmelt from Mount Charleston, north of Las Vegas, to reach the aquifer in the Amargosa Basin and Death Valley—the hottest and driest corner of the United States. The temperatures are among the hottest on Earth, with Death Valley potentially setting a world record of over 130 degrees Fahrenheit this summer. Rain is scarce, just a few inches a year in the basin. Its namesake river largely runs dry on the surface, the water hidden underground. The only sign of life across much of the valley adjacent to Death Valley National Park is the sea of creosote bushes, but islands of mesquite and cottonwood trees hide pools of water bluer than the sky above. 

And despite the harsh conditions, those scattered springs, streams and seeps have made this place—Ash Meadows—one of the most biodiverse places in the world. Often called the “Galapagos of the Mojave,” at least 26 endemic species here are found nowhere else, including the rarest fish in the world, the Devil’s Hole pupfish, which lives in a water-filled cavern where the temperature exceeds 90 degrees Fahrenheit.

Many species here have long teetered on the brink of extinction. Human activity in the later half of the 20th century nearly dried up the water supply vital to the area’s plants and animals until the Endangered Species Act, a Supreme Court decision and conservationists saved Ash Meadows by limiting groundwater pumping by local ranchers to maintain water levels critical to the endangered pupfish, eventually designating Ash Meadows as a wildlife refuge in the 1980s. 

That turned the pupfish into a hated pest for many area residents, as protecting it and other wildlife stopped development and economic opportunities faded away. But this past year, a new threat emerging just outside Ash Meadows National Wildlife Refuge transformed the fish from a villain to a hero.

Pickets across the valley mark mining claims to explore for lithium, the mineral critical to batteries for electricity vehicles and storage of the energy from wind and solar projects. Now, a broad coalition of residents, environmentalists, tribes and local leaders are counting on the Endangered Species Act, the refuge and the pupfish to save them from a proposed mine that they fear will further deplete their scarce water resources, threatening the life that has found a way to thrive in the hottest place in the world.

“We want to save Ash Meadows, but Ash Meadows is going save us,” said Carolyn Allen, chair of the Amargosa Valley Town Board, who is helping lead the fight against proposed mining activity.

Water has always been a priority, she said. Already, the aquifer is seeing too much groundwater pumping, putting the endangered species and community here at risk of extinction. Residents’ wells are running dry, spitting out nothing but sand, and a fix would cost tens of thousands of dollars. 

“It’s the desert,” she said. “Water is the lifeblood of everything.”

Exploratory Drilling and Endangered Species

No more than 1,500 feet away from the refuge’s northernmost spring, where on a hot summer day, schools of the colorful endangered Ash Meadows Amargosa pupfish and Ash Meadows Amargosa speckled dace swam, is a playa with a butte filled with lithium that’s attracted the attention of Rover Critical Minerals. The exploratory mining company is looking to drill in the area to research the potential for a mine here. But a study commissioned by the Nature Conservancy—which led the push in the ‘70s and ‘80s to create the refuge by buying up the land around Ash Meadows and transferring it to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service—found a mine in the area would cause the aquifer to drop 50 feet at the site of the dig, and between two and 30 feet throughout the entire refuge.

Rover was supposed to begin its exploratory drilling last summer, but the Bureau of Land Management, which controls roughly 95 percent of the land in the Amargosa Valley, approved the work without conducting an environmental review, leading the Amargosa Conservancy and Center for Biological Diversity to sue. The BLM pulled its approval of the project and began the review. But in May, locals awoke to claims staked right outside their homes. Rover also proposed exploring the mining potential farther from the refuge but closer to the town and Death Valley National Park.

The project is the latest in a series of environmental battles between mines seeking to dig minerals deemed critical for the renewable energy transition and communities and environmentalists opposing the projects due to their impacts on natural and cultural resources. But unlike many of those disputes, which typically pit mining companies, federal agencies and some local leaders against environmentalists and tribes, the Ash Meadows project has nearly zero local support.

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"Sidle Up" Written by - @scottklopfenstein

Performed by the Littlest Man Band

Directed by : @chrisgraue

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/1glzyi...

Video Location : Amargosa Opera House and Hotel - Death Valley, CA

Scott Klopfenstein - Vocals / Guitar

Ed Kampwirth - Bass

Tony Austin - Drums

Dennis Hamm - Piano, Organ

Edgar Guadiana - Alto, Tenor, Bari Saxophone

Adam Liebreich-Johnsen - Tenor and Bass Trombone

Tavis Werts - Trumpet

Produced by John Avila

Mixed by Eric Fuller

Mastered by Adam Haggar

Artwork by Jimmy Panagopoulos (Scotticity)

Management @gscottbarrett

https://www.recordsfromanotherplace.com

Copyright 2023 license all rights reserved

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Coroner Identifies 22-Year-Old Victorville Man Killed in Crash on Amargosa Road Saturday

VICTORVILLE, Calif. (VVNG.com) – The San Bernardino County Coroner has identified a man killed in a crash on Amargosa Road as 22-year-old Abel S. Navarrete, a Victorville resident Abel’s wife, Angelica, has initiated a GoFundMe campaign to cover funeral costs and other unexpected expenses following the fatal crash. The incident was reported near the intersection of Amargosa Road and Ramada…

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every six months i remember levitz (with birds) exists and i ascend

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how to fix everything

Ash Meadows, Nevada

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Lawsuit Aims to Help Amargosa Voles

The Center just sued the Bureau of Land Management to protect highly imperiled Amargosa voles from unmanaged human activity in their protected critical habitat. Off-road vehicles, unattended campfires, and people using the marshy lands for toilet functions have severely degraded the mouselike animals’ tiny remaining range — near a popular hot spring outside Tecopa, California.