What we’re about
The Sierra Club's Range of Light Group (ROLG, Toiyabe Chapter) welcomes you to join us on our various events in the Eastern Sierra throughout the year! We are avid hikers, backpackers, snowshoers, cross-country skiers, kayakers, canoeists, birders, and environmentalists who treasure the Eastern Sierra of California, centered in Mono and Inyo Counties.
The Range of Light Group is part of the Toiyabe Chapter of the Sierra Club. Our core team is focused on public land use, environmental concerns, conservation efforts, and being involved in coalitions with like interests. In the post-pandemic world, we have mainly hosted events about these concerns. We also have Sierra Club certified members who, on occassion, lead hikes and other outdoor events.
Non-members are welcome to participate in all of our group's activities.
For more information about the Range of Light Group, please visit our Facebook page...
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Range-of-Light-Group/464737966890277
and website...
http://nevada.sierraclub.org/rolgroup/
and Instagram...
SierraClubROLG
and Twitter...
@SierraClubROLG
We look forward to seeing you on one of our outings!
Upcoming events (1)
See all- Losing Peaks, Pinyons, Wildlife in the Bodie HillsNeeds location
### Tuesday, May 27, 2025
### 6:30-7:30 pm
### Questions until 8:00 pm
### Virtual Presentation
Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/m1l4e75qRgKhJ2elqTMLeA#/registration
The Range of Light Group, Earthworks, and Great Basin Resource Watch are presenting on the impacts of gold mines and exploratory drilling in the Bodie Hills in the Eastern Sierra. Learn what the impacts have been with two gold exploration projects that have started and what the impacts will be with four more gold exploration projects: one that has been approved, one in the planning phase, and two being proposed.
These projects just keep on coming as the price of gold keeps going up. It was more than $3,400 an ounce on May 6, 2025. While some people will be hoarding gold as a cushion against a possible economic collapse, the majority of us will lose something much more valuable... a huge chunk of the Bodie Hills including Brawley Peaks with its stunning vistas of the region. The peaks are on a path to becoming an ugly open pit, cyanide heap-leached gold mine. We can't let that happen. To find out more, join me for a presentation on the six gold exploration projects.
