A huge potential threat to the toad came in 2006, when the U.S. Bureau of Land Management announced it would auction off 5,740 acres along the Amargosa River. If any public lands along the riparian ...

Claire Watkins, who played volleyball at the community center as a student, said Amargosa Valley should not have to bear the burden of lithium mining. “As I see it, this river kept me alive ...