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Letter From The Desert: Glass Mountain

Letter From The Desert: Glass Mountain

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Chris Clarke
May 13, 2018
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Raptor feather at Mono Lake

How many years? Eleven since I last saw Mono Lake. Thirty-one since I first visited, at least under my own power. In 1982 David Gaines came to speak to us ragtag canvassers at the California League of Conservation Voters, my first job in California, and encouraged us all to come out and visit the lake. It took me five years to take him up on his offer.

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