13 Mar 2024 Lithium and the New Green Extractionism This is the first in a series of field dispatches focused on the convergence of climate change, mining, renewable energy,… Kim Stringfellow
04 Dec 2021 Voices from Death Valley’s Chaos Bennie still makes me smile and laugh and Lauren still draws out my more serious side, even though both men… Kim Stringfellow
08 Aug 2018 Old Woman of the Mountain In 1934, Jack and Ida Mitchell made their way to the Providence Mountains with the desire to reinvent themselves. Four… Kim Stringfellow
25 Apr 2018 Giant Rock, Space People and the Integratron On the morning of February 21, 2000, at 8:20 a.m., an extraordinary event occurred. In outlying Landers, California, an immense… Kim Stringfellow
30 Jun 2017 Landscape of Belonging: Joshua Tree’s Climbing Legacy It was an idyllic era for us ‘old-timers.’ We climbed the obvious lines, picked our competition and leisurely experimented with… Kim Stringfellow
02 Aug 2016 Kokoweef: Still Searching for the Lost River of Gold Either Uncle Earl Dorr discovered the richest gold deposit in the United States…or he was the most imaginative liar in… Kim Stringfellow
12 Apr 2016 Borax: The Magic Crystal It was a rare occasion that a visitor would stop over at Aaron and Rosie Winters’ modest stone cabin in… Kim Stringfellow
19 Oct 2015 Divining Devils Hole: Part II Around the same time that the two young men disappeared into the abysmal depths of Devils Hole, irreversible ecological devastation… Kim Stringfellow
05 Oct 2015 Divining Devils Hole: Part I On June 20, 1965, four high school buddies set out to a remote desert location about ninety miles northwest of… Kim Stringfellow
23 Jan 2015 Anyone for hounding rocks? David Eyre (pronounced “air”) prides himself as an agate licker—aka rockhound. Eyre, a fortyish looking man with a serious rockabilly… Kim Stringfellow
19 Sep 2014 Gem-O-Rama On the second weekend in October, for over seventy-five years, Searles Valley Minerals (SVM) hosts Gem-O-Rama, a gem and mineral… Kim Stringfellow
