Exploring and Informing

For the last twelve thousand years, people have been living in and around Death Valley. There have been four anthropologically distinct era...

The west side of Death Valley is ripe with opportunity. Only a half dozen roads penetrate this immense wild-land, and this difficulty of ac...

This is a copper mine that had been worked by one miner, Homer Struck, for over thirty years between 1969 and 1999. Before then, its history...

High up in the Sierras above Walker Valley, outside Bridgeport, is a dilapidated old stamp mill. It is the last stamp mill managed by the ...

Lava Beds National Monument is in the far northeast corner of California, just miles away from the border with Oregon. Boundless plains of g...

Tule Lake was a large lake on the border of California and Oregon that mostly dried up in the last Some of the best carvings  few hundre...

Looking out to the Bullfrog Hills, camp at left, from the cave. The eastern part of Death Valley National Park is an empty triangle jutt...