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Jan 17, 2025 | 
greatoldbroads.org | Jason Vaughn
The record 2023-2024 water years have given us some room to breathe, but we’re just one dry year away from being back at Great Salt Lake’s historic low. Our legislature has declared a moratorium on new major water legislation this year as Great Salt Lake has fallen on their list of priorities.
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Jan 17, 2025 | 
greatoldbroads.org | Jason Vaughn
For Immediate Release: January 17, 2025Media Contact: Jason M. Vaughn, Communications Coordinator, Great Old Broads for Wilderness (Email)Durango, CO—This week, Rep Celeste Maloy (R-UT) introduced legislation in the House of Representatives that, if passed, would effectively repeal the 1906 Antiquities Act by requiring Congress to approve the establishment or extension of a National Monument. The Antiquities Act of 1906 is one of the most important pieces of legislation in American history.
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Jan 10, 2025 | 
greatoldbroads.org | Jason Vaughn
Join the Greater Wasatch Broads and Bros at 6:30 PM on January 23, 2025, as they discuss The Emerald Mile by author Kevin Fedarko. The story of two friends, zero preparation, and one dream, The Emerald Mile, is a rollicking and poignant account of an epic 750-mile odyssey, on foot, through the heart of America’s most magnificent national park and the grandest wilderness on earth.
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Jan 6, 2025 | 
greatoldbroads.org | Jason Vaughn
Durango, CO (January 7, 2025) — Great Old Broads for Wilderness joins with the many conservation organizations, Tribal groups, and residents across the state of California in celebrating today’s designation of Chuckwalla National Monument and Sáttítla National Monument.
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Dec 4, 2024 | 
greatoldbroads.org | Jason Vaughn
Join the Eastern Sierra Broadband for the Amargosa Broadwalk, March 31 – April 4, 2025, as we explore the desert ecosystems and the species they support. It will take place at Shoshone, California, a pioneer in ecotourism, which is conveniently located in the Amargosa Basin between Death Valley and Las Vegas, Nevada, and a few hours north of Los Angeles.
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Nov 20, 2024 | 
greatoldbroads.org | Jason Vaughn
Calling all Broads and Bros! Join us on Saturday, December 14 at 10:00 AM at Big Morongo Canyon Preserve—a world famous global birding destination—for an educational field trip. We have a tour guide at 10:00am and a chance to enjoy the preserve before lunch. This lovely place is FREE to visit and provides educational opportunities for local school children.
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Nov 5, 2024 | 
greatoldbroads.org | Jason Vaughn
Grab your work gloves and join the 4Corners Broadband at 10:00 AM on November 13, 2024, for a day of stewardship work along the Painted Hand Trail at Canyons of the Ancients National Monument!Broads will be working on a buck and rail fencing project along the trail. For more information and to RSVP, contact 4Corners Broadband Leader Jennifer Singer here.
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Nov 5, 2024 | 
greatoldbroads.org | Jason Vaughn
Located in the far southeast corner of the state, Oregon’s Owyhee Canyonlands represent one of the largest conservation opportunities in the American West. Boasting more than 2.5 million acres of desert wildlands and described as “Oregon’s Grand Canyon,” the deep ravines, rocky spires, rolling sagebrush plains and rushing rivers are home to myriad fish and wildlife, boundless recreation, and feature some of the darkest night skies in the country.
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Oct 29, 2024 | 
greatoldbroads.org | Jason Vaughn
Join the Sonoran Broadband for a hike to Hackberry Springs in the beautiful Superstition Mountains!The Sonoran Broads will be undertaking a series of hikes on trails with springs on them in an effort to choose one spring to “adopt.” That would mean visiting it and monitoring it via the Survey 123 app several times over the year.
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Oct 11, 2024 | 
greatoldbroads.org | Jason Vaughn
Join Willamette Valley Broad and writer, Bonnie Olin, for a richly-illustrated, educational journey into the canyonlands of the Owyhee River in Nevada, Idaho and Oregon, during a talk, slideshow, reading and movie, based on her book, The Owyhee River Journals. The movie features a 2006 expedition into Deep Creek and the East Fork of the Owyhee. The slideshow features the entire river corridor from Nevada to the Owyhee Reservoir.
