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The Fly Ranch Project
About the Land
Team Focus
Our team's priorities are to care for the land and help people get involved. We focus on impact,transparency, cost-effectiveness,, open-source collaboration and public benefit. Learn about the vision.
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Sunday Labyrinth Walks
Fly Ranch Labyrinth walks hosted by Will & Crimson at two PM
Friends & Family Campouts
Open to Fly Ranch Stewards to connect and work on the land
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Fly Residents
The novel desert ecosystem exists because of the abundant water. The hot springs are home to a metazoan with the highest temperature tolerance of any metazoan and rare photosynthetic microbial mats. The waters are crucial for the eight beehives and the Fly Ranch pyrg (Pyrgulopsis bruesi), an endangered highly vulnerable snail found only in one pool at Fly Ranch.
Featured Projects
Fly Bees
A volunteer project spun off from the Ripple team to care for eight beehives and product organic honey
Baba Yaga's Tea House
An immersive art experience looking out over the stunning landscape of the high desert.
Writer's Emerging
A retreat to connect with the land and participate in creative workshops.
PLPT Tule Harvest
Indigenous harvest of tule reed used to make traditional burial mats.
SEED Garden
Symbiotic Coevolution: A vision for a generative future built by a LAGI Design Challege finalist.
BWB Summit
A flagship annual gathering held at Fly Ranch in partnership with Burners Without Borders.
Fly Ranch sparked Burning Man Project's 2030 Environmental Sustainability Roadmap. As its CEO Marian Goodell wrote: “Informed by our stewardship of the land and waters at Fly Ranch and the global climate crisis, we created an environmental sustainability roadmap that sets ambitious goals around waste management, ecological impact, and carbon sequestration.” A documentary from the International Wood Culture Society shows how sustainability projects are coming to life on and off playa.
Fly Ranch Media
Fly Ranch By The Numbers
1000+ Nature Walks
Open Saturday in season
Attended by students in Gerlach and Empire, universities and travelers from around the world, members of the Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe, and anyone who wants to visit.
3+ Weekly Staff Soaks
From Golden Spike to Resto
Staff soaks are a chance for Black Rock City to recharge, rejuvenate, and connect during the build season for the Burning Man event.
$2.3M in Revenue
Since 2016
Over the past eight years, we've invested $2.7 million in Fly Ranch programs, infrastructure, and ecological restorations. This is an average budget of $337,000 a year. We've generated $2.3M in revenue, a net cost of a few hundred thousand dollars.
103 Campouts
For Friends & Family
Campouts have been times to restore junkyard and landfill areas, install art, study and tend to the land, and connect with other Stewards.
150 Cows Grazing
From November to April
We graze 150 cows at Fly Ranch every year for six months. This allows us to maintain weeds, fertilize the land, and generate revenue.
185 LAGI Proposals
From 496 people worldwide
LAGI at Fly Ranch generated 185 proposals focused on food, water, power, shelter, and waste management. These are all publicly available. Ten of the teams have built prototypes of their projects at Fly Ranch.
12+ Art Projects
Focused on the land
The Narwhal, Pier, Baba Yaga's House, LAGI projects, Paradisium, and other pieces have found their home at Fly Ranch.
143 Plant Species
A lush desert ecosystem
Fly Ranch is home to native wildflowers, wetlands grasses, desert peach, desert onions, and over a hundred types of plants.
136 Types of Birds
A migratory paradise
Bald Eages, Golden Eagles, Blue Herons, Mourning Doves, Red-Tailed Hawks, Sandhill Cranes, owls, ravens, and more
2,000 Stewards
Ou r Fly Ranch members
Fly Stewards lead nature walks, restorations, and serve as Guardians. Our members steward the vision, projects, and land.
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