Vision & History
Burning Man Rural Center for Interactive Art & Community Partication
Preface
This page has two goals. First, to share information with interested people, collaborators, and similar projects. Second, to thank and acknowledge those who make it happen. The linked documents, images, and videos provide an overview of the project. Fly Ranch is open-source. Anyone can propose projects. This is a working rough draft that will be continually updated.
Contents
🔥 I. Origins. Regional map, burn at Fly Ranch, ABC Nightline (1986 - 1997).
🗺️ II. The Road Home. The nonprofit, site maps food & soil, soil maps, funds (1997 - 2012).
📜 III. Closing the Deal. Vision for participation, Burning Man 365, raft & shore, 10 Principles, the team (2012 - 2016).
🏡 IV. Welcome Home. Landfill programs, LAGI, water, map, nonprofit, stewards, visitors, heartspace, be a founder (2016 - present).
Introduction
In 2016 Burning Man Project became the steward of Fly Ranch. Many have asked, “What’s going on at Fly Ranch?”, “What’s the vision for this space?”, and “Why does Burning Man have a ranch?” At 5.6 square miles, with thousands already involved, the answer isn’t simple. As we enter a new phase, it’s a good moment to reflect on the journey, share what’s ahead, and answer those questions. The idea of a year-round space for Burning Man grew from shared passion, belief in the community, and curiosity. More than 550 people made the 20-year acquisition possible, and thousands have since contributed since the 2016 acquistion. Chip Conley, an early leader in the project, summed it up: “What happens when Burners co-create a space beyond the playa?” The answer is unfolding now—through a growing array of projects and visions you can be part of and add to:
Regeneration
Restore land & ecosystem
🐝 Eight beehives
🐄 150 cows grazing
💧 Water protection
🌱 Rewilding
🖤 Compost use and sharing
🌱 Soil regeneration
🌞 Solar only since 2018
🚐 Renewable systems
🦋 Biofiltration
🌾 Farm & garden
️🔥 Biochar burns to store C02
Community
Innovation & connection
🔎 Fly Guardians
⛺ BWB campouts
🌀 Labyrinth walks
🎨 Design competitions
🖼️ 26 art team
🌿 School field trips
📚 Gerlach K-12
🎉 Gerlach & staff soaks
🏝 Black Rock City staff Soaks
💧 Pyramid Lake partners
🎟️ New BRC citizens
Stewardship
Land, history, & future
🐌 Endangered Fly Ranch snail
💦 150 hot & cold springs
🌳 143 plant species & 136 birds
🐾 Mountain 🦁, bobcat, coyote
🌋 Fly Geyser care & access
🎋 Tule reed center
🐸 600 acres of wetlands
📚 LAGI at Fly Ranch book
🏺 Burning Man museum
🤝 Government relationships
🔬 Scientific conferences
I. Origins
In 1986, Larry Harvey and Jerry James went to Baker Beach in San Francisco and burned a wooden man. They decided to make it an annual event. John Law, the Cacophony Society, and hundreds of people organized and scaled the event. In 1990 Burning Man merged with a zone trip some Cacophonists had planned to an alkaline salt flat in the Black Rock Desert in Nevada. From 1990 - 1996 the event was held over hundreds of square miles in a dry lake bed ("playa") in Pershing County on land managed by the Bureau of Land Management. Various philosophies, groups, and projects had an indirect or direct influence on the culture of Burning Man, and by extensition Fly Ranch.
Radical Experiments
Performance & activism
Interactive Artists
Immersive, participatory art
engages on multiple levels.
Collective Chaos
Participatory chaos, shared
experience, expression
Mechanized Mayhem
Art, robotics, performance
with anarchic, experimental spirit
Culture Jammers
Culture disruption, satire,
pranks, & interventions.
Tech Revolutionaries
Internet, free data, personal
& collective freedom.
Fly Ranch Burn
In 1997 Burning Man sought a new location in response to permit issues. Four miles down the road was a ranch with hot springs, a multi-colored geyser, and a neighboring playa: The Hualapai Flat. Burning Man happened at Fly Ranch that year. The iconic shape of Black Rock City was born on the shoreline of the Hualapai Flat, illustrated in the Fly Ranch event site map.
Will Roger, Coyote, and others built six roads that are still visible, put up street signs, and installed porta potties to meet Washoe County permit requirements. 10,000 people came to the event. People talked about if Fly Ranch could be a year-round space. Then, as now, there was art, fire, and soaking in the hot springs. ABC Nightline did a piece about the event.
Fire Dancing
Fly Hot Springs
The Man
Bone Arch
II. The Road Home
An iterative vision. After the event that year, William Binzen wrote a preliminary proposal for how to develop Fly Ranch. He explored different visions about what Fly Ranch could be. In 2005 Ken Vanosky wrote a proposal about the land, worked to determine an offer price, and looked at deal structures for a geothermal facility. In 2009, Marian Goodell conceived of an idea for 100 people to go to Fly on a bus for a dinner and conversation about a “year-round Burning Man facility.” The event was beautifully described and documented by John Curley.
The Nonprofit. Black Rock City LLC was founded in 2000 by Larry Harvey, Marian Goodell, Harley K. Dubois, Michael Mikel, Crimson Rose, and Will Roger. It became the permit holder and entity responsible for BRC administration. In 2008, the Founders concluded that a non-profit was the best option to ensure and protect the future of Burning Man. The entity took 18 months to develop. It was submitted in 2011 with by-laws and board members. Employees, IP, and associated projects migrated into the Nonprofit. The Founders donated their shares. Around the same time, Rod Garrett, Larry, and Will proposed a financially sustainable and environmentally regenerative facility at Fly Ranch. In 2011, Will chaired a committee to draft proposals. They expanded on maps Rod and Don Clark made with zones for energy, research, art, camping, and conservation. They imagined the project would support economic growth in Northern Nevada (which it does) and create public benefit (which it has). Don, Will, and others made a map that has been influential in the Site Map and LAGI Design Guidelines.
Food & Soil. Tom Stille ran soil tests and developed a map during the acquisition process to show the amount of food Fly could produce. Fly's neighbors grow more than a thousand acres of alfalfa. A few hundred acres at Fly were once an alfalfa farm but are covered with cheatgrass, a fast-spreading non-native species. That area is adjacent to eight beehives, and would be ideal for farming. Four of the top ten LAGI projects focus on food (The Source, The Loop, Veil, and Ripple). In partnership with Burning Man's Regeneration Team, Fly has for the past two years spread compost from the Black Rock City Commissary, improved soil, and donated compost to projects in Gerlach and Pyramid Lake. Fly Farms has for the past two years produced tomatoes, onions, garlic, and peppers. Tom's work was a guiding influence for the LAGI Design Guidelines.
Funds. As Burning Man Project did not receive 501(c)3 status until 2012, the plan was to raise funds through the Black Rock Arts Foundation. Staff members Doron Amiran and James Hanusa started to fundraise. Jennifer Raiser later supported those efforts. Ben Thompson was the project manager. Matthew Kwatinetz, later a Burning Man Project board member, supported efforts and proposed deal structures. Fourteen people made small donations and larger pledges were promised. It’s difficult to manage an intense event, a nonprofit, and a real estate strategy. The acquisition project required a team.
III. Closing the Deal
The team. Chip Conley went to the 2009 Fly Ranch Dinner. He was enamored with Will's vision and love of the property. He saw Fly as the yin to BRC's yang. He became a Burning Man board member and re-ignited the effort with a first large gift. This enabled the organization to spark the process again in 2012:
🐻 Bear Kittay was invited to join the project. He was Burning Man’s Global Ambassador and started to build a coalition.
🤠 Daniel Claussen had experience in conservation, eco-hospitality, and impact investment. He led the close.
❤️ Katiyana Kittay had experience in event production and philanthropy. She was the lead for tours and events.
📐 James Milner was a management consultant who supported strategy and documentation.
A vision for participation. The team proposed a vision, calendar, and plans. They wrote:
The Fly Ranch Project is a one-of-a-kind legacy opportunity for the culture and community of Burning Man to significantly and meaningfully evolve. Fly Ranch, in combination with the adjacent Hualapai Flat, is the only significant piece of land near Black Rock City that has the resources to support and expand Burning Man’s cultural activities into a year-round force.
We are at a pivotal moment in time, one where Burning Man’s creative impact is escalating as a cultural phenomena. With Black Rock City at capacity for multiple years in a row, and with maturing communities and models of Burning Man replicating around the globe we are at a historic juncture in the evolving DNA of “what is Burning Man”?
Fly Ranch will be the centennial home for Burning Man’s legacy, an engine of possibility for our culture and our culture’s ability to make a powerful contribution to humankind in the 21st century and beyond.
Black Rock City’s iconic layout did not come into being until the size of the city reached 12,000 participants. Similarly, we intend for the form of Fly to be shaped and guided by the creative input and expertise of the community over the course of early events and gatherings on site.
Burning Man 365. As was proposed, the current approach is of a constant array of volunteers, groups, builds, and assemblies. People visit Fly all year for nature walks, Guardians shifts, community soaks, Labyrinth walks, and projects. We estimate that volunteers put in at least 11,440 hours last year to support Fly programs. Based on climate change, wildfires, smoke, and heatwaves, the best months for principal events seem to be April, May, October, and November. We host flexible, adaptable, monthly campouts that could massively scale and minimize the likelihood of cancellation with no backup.
The Raft & The Shore. A vision held by some involved with Fly is that much of our normal culture is like a big cruise ship—convenient, commodified, and unsustainable. Communities, countercultures, individuals, and movements seeking something more have left the ship. They are sailing the open ocean on rafts. Each year, these groups tie their rafts together for a week of shared struggle and collective creativity at Burning Man. A city, culture, and society emerge. Fly is the shore where rafts have landed from all over culture and the world. Fly is a mosaic of contributions from the rafts, the people who sailed them, and those who have found a home at Fly.
Larry Harvey wrote the Ten Principles in 2004 to articulate the ethos that naturally emerged at Burning Man. The principles reflect what makes the culture thrive. Larry envisioned Black Rock City as a living model of connection and creativity, and Fly as its enduring extension—a shore where the experiments and lessons of the desert, citizens of Black Rock City, the global Burning Man community, and the spirit of the Ten Principles have a permanent home (designs by James Wickham). Art, community, human evolution, social innovation, technological prototyping, and regenerative infrastructure converge into a center for sustainability, collective innovation, and regeneration.
Radical Inclusion
Anyone may be a part of Burning Man. We welcome and respect the stranger. No prerequisites exist for participation in our community.
Radical Self-Reliance
Burning Man encourages the individual to discover, exercise and rely on his or her inner resources.
Civic Responsibility
We value civil society. Community members who organize events should assume responsibility for public welfare and endeavor to communicate civic responsibilities to participants. They must also assume responsibility for conducting events in accordance with local, state and federal laws.
Leaving No Trace
Our community respects the environment. We are committed to leaving no physical trace of our activities wherever we gather. We clean up after ourselves and endeavor, whenever possible, to leave such places in a better state than when we found them.
Gifting
Burning Man is devoted to acts of gift giving. The value of a gift is unconditional. Gifting does not contemplate a return or an exchange for something of equal value.
Radical
Self-Expression
Radical self-expression arises from the unique gifts of the individual. No one other than the individual or a collaborating group can determine its content. It is offered as a gift to others. In this spirit, the giver should respect the rights and liberties of the recipient.
Immediacy
Immediate experience is, in many ways, the most important touchstone of value in our culture. We seek to overcome barriers that stand between us and a recognition of our inner selves, the reality of those around us, participation in society, and contact with a natural world exceeding human powers. No idea can substitute for this experience.
Decommodification
In order to preserve the spirit of gifting, our community seeks to create social environments that are unmediated by commercial sponsorship, transactions, or advertising. We stand ready to protect our culture from such exploitation. We resist the substitution of consumption for participatory experience.
Communal Effort
Our community values creative cooperation and collaboration. We strive to produce, promote and protect social networks, public spaces, works of art, and methods of communication that support such interaction.
Participation
Our community is committed to a radically participatory ethic. We believe that transformative change, whether in the individual or in society, can occur only through the medium of deeply personal participation. We achieve being through doing. Everyone is invited to work. Everyone is invited to play. We make the world real through actions that open the heart.
Project management. Larry, Chip, Kay Morrison, David Walker, Terry Gross, and Matt Goldberg became the Fly Ranch Committee of the Board of Directors. The group was facilitated by Marian. The team signed an agreement to manage visits to the property. Rebecca Gasca, Ting Kelly, and Zach Bell supported visits and solicited feedback. Carson Bowley crafted proposals and made a few of the maps and images on this page. Internally from Burning Man Project staff, Megan Miller, Playground, Zac Cirivello, and Theresa Duncan coordinated on communications, operations, and philanthropy. In 2015, a joint venture to purchase Fly Ranch and nearby land nearly came together but fell through. Late that year, the team wrote a proposal and gathered a group of potential donors to raise the final $2.2M needed. Ping Fu, who become a Burning Man Board member, became a Fly Ranch donor. Other donors joined: Joe Gebbia, Bill Linton, Rob and Kristin Goldman, Guy Laliberté, Farhad Mohit, Nushin Sabet, Alex Moradi, Graham Schneider, Jonathan Teo, and a few anonymous donors. A vision created at an offsite was that of a “triple crown” with three areas associated with different visions.
Black Rock City
The cultural home
Black Rock City remains the radical and ephemeral city of the imagination.
Fly Ranch
Experiments & innovation
Fly Ranch hosts experiments around nature, creativity, and relationships.
A Makerspace
Infrastructure & Builds
Makerspaces at Black Rock Station and The 360 support BRC, Gerlach, and Fly Ranch.
Success. With the funds needed Burning Man Nonprofit purchased the property on June 10, 2016. Ben Henretig, Justin Majeczky, Sashwa Burrous, and Justin Lewis teamed up to make a video to introduce the land.
IV. Welcome home
At the time of the acquisition in 2016, much of Fly Ranch was a dump. Dozens of acres in different parts of the land were completely covered with the leftovers of 140 years of extraction, grazing, and monocropping. Three massive oil tanks had leaked deep into the ground. Multiple deep landfills had been buried. Waterways, pipes, and dams had collapsed. Walking trails and roads didn’t exist or were unusable. The historic buildings were in total disarray and disrepair. Horses and cows wandered through broken fences and gates before severely damaging the ecology. Dozens of unruly visitors showed up most weekends and badly defaced the geyser, polluted the pools and wetlands, and scattered MOOP.
Programs
Based on a suggestion from Larry, we started nature walks in 2017 in partnership with Friends of the Black Rock. Walk Docents gave everyone MOOP bags. Participants have cleared the land. We started to host camping trips in 2018 initially focused exclusively on restoring the land. Other campouts have been retreats, workshops, a leadership training organized by Harley, bioblitzes, BWB Summits coordinated by Annie, stewardship campouts, work weekends, and multi-week LAGI campouts supported by Kay, Jennifer, Mercedes, and the Flying Monkeys. Fly Ranch has hosted Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, Gerlach K-12 students, and other educational trips. Stewardds have led campouts and projects to restore the land, deploy solar, install art, fix fences, support projects at Pyramid Lake, restore buildings, build roads and trails, and prototype LAGI projects. Informed by our experiences and Scirpus’s incredible research of the land, a participatory stewardship ethos has emerged at Fly that has intermingled with Burning Man roots planted deep in 1997.
LAGI AT Fly Ranch
After three years of restoration, Stewards started to focus on food, water, power, shelter, and waste. We haven’t used generators since 2018. Thanks to introductions from Dusty and M2, we started LAGI at Fly Ranch in 2019. We invited infrastructure designs that would inspire “wonder and awe”, and “inspire people about the beauty of a world within which humanity achieves harmony with the natural world and environmental systems”. The results were incredible:
📥 500 people on 185 teams submitted proposals based on the design guidelines.
💬 The proposals were reviewed by 200 technical advisors who left 2,000 comments.
🎯 50 members of the shortlist committee picked 52 shortlisted projects.
🏆 33 jurors selected the top ten projects.
🥇 Lodgers received the most votes.
⏳ We estimate the 800 people involved put in 10,000 hours of time into the process.
🚀 The top ten teams and three others have built prototypes of their projects at Fly.
🛖 Lodgers has built at MIT and in Lisbon, Ripple at Pyramid Lake, and the Loop at Borderland.
The visions, designs, and philosophies for regenerative structures can be scaled and copied. The communitarian, sustainable, and inclusive projects demonstrate a new way to live in harmony with life. The videos below are an overview of LAGI, SEED and Coyote Mountain.
Site Map
The interactive site map shows water, art, photos, links, LAGI designs, parcels, roads, trails, zoning, uses, and the site layout. It includes BLM, Washoe County, and private lands. You can open the panel on the left to filter the view. Click anywhere for pictures and details.
Water Is Sacred
Water is the most valuable and ecologically important aspect of Fly. Burning Man Project (BMP) stewards four vested underground water rights claims from artesian wells designated for stock watering and three surface claims designated for irrigation from Cottonwood Creek, Little Cottwonwood, and the hot springs. There is substantial water on the property, at least tens of millions of gallons. There is also groundwater water and aquifer water. To make use of the water, owners need to go through a permit process. Seasonal precipitation is down, temperatures are higher and increase evaporation, and aridification is underway. Surface and groundwater reductions are visible, along with other impacts from climate change. A Reno developer recently sought to build a pipeline with water from under Fly Ranch in in the Hualapai Flat Basin (Basin 024). Various Friends of Fly opposed a similar project in 2007 and could be part of a coalition. The endangered Fly Ranch pyrg snail could be protected from a pipeline through the Endangered Species Act. Fly Ranch has well-documented public benefits that would be impacted by water mining. It is unclear if the State Water Engineer would approve an interbasin transfer.
Fly Ranch Hot Springs
Fly Ranch Upper Reservoir
Allowed Uses
Fly Ranch is zoned as General Rural (GR) in a High Desert Area, a flexible and permissive framework for a variety of land uses. Activities fall into three categories: Allowed (no permit required or with simple inspection), Allowed with Permit (ranging from administrative to special use permits), and Not Allowed. Many projects—including recreation, lodging, employee housing, agriculte, community centers, and renewable energy—are permitted outright. Others, such as destination resorts, industrial uses, and certain commercial operations, require approval. Fly Ranch benefits from a tax exemption under NRS 361A for agricultural use, currently fulfilled through cattle grazing, for which we have a grazing permit. Fly Ranch can host large events with an Outdoor Community Events permit (up to 999 people for up to 10 consecutive days) or an Outdoor Festivals permit (over 1,000 people for up to 10 consecutive days). Our zoning allows for a mix of residential, civic, commercial, agricultural, and multi-use development without requiring rezoning, enabling diverse projects and innovative land use.
Nonprofit Role
As Fly Ranch has evolved, so too has Burning Man Nonprofit. Today, it supports a thriving global network of community, artistic, and ecological projects, including:
🔥 Black Rock City: Annual gathering for community, personal connection, and transformation for 70,000 people.
💪 Burners Without Borders: Community-building, disaster relief, and ecological restorations across 46 global BWB Chapters.
🌎 Regional Events: Expression and transformation for 100,000 people annually at 100+ Regional events in 35+ countries.
🏘️ Economic and Public Benefit: Massive local and regional economic impacts and broad public benefits.
Fly Ranch plays a vital role in supporting Burning Man's nonprofit programs and initiatives, contributing to a diverse range of community-building, artistic, and ecological endeavors. Fly Ranch supports Burning Man Nonprofit programs and fundraising; Black Rock City teams, staff, and geopolitical relationships; local partnerships, students, and projects; public benefit in Northern Nevada; and a global network. Since 2016 Fly has cost $2.7M, made $2.3M, saved over $1M in water for Black Rock City, and originated projects that have led to eight figure gifts for Burning Man Nonprofit. Fly has become a net positive financially and culturally for Burning Man Project and contributes in the following ways:
Sustainable Solutions
Regeneration in Practice
Fly Ranch develops regenerative and sustainable solutions for food, water, power, shelter, waste, and C02 drawdown.
Incubation
Home to Bold Ideas
Fly has helped catalyze the Renewable Art Team, the Green Theme Camp Community, and Burning Man's 2030 Sustainability Roadmap.
BRC Compost
Supporting Circular Systems
120 cubic yards of compost from the Black Rock City Commissary used and distributed to gardens, in Gerlach, and at Pyramid Lake.
Wonder & Awe
Supporting Circular Systems
Fly evokes wonder and awe, inspiring people to imagine a world where humanity lives in harmony with natural systems.
Fundraising
Tens of Millions Catalyzed
Fly projects have led to eight-figures in gifts for OFF, "Save the Man, Green the Man, Bring the Man Home", and millions in Burning Man Nonprofit gifts.
Pilot Site
Tested & Proven Technologies
Fly piloted Ecozoics, solar, EVs, and more with the Regeneration Department and Black Rock Labs.
Art & Infrastructure
26 Affiliated Art Teams
Fly is home to interactive art that sparks awe and transformation. Art, nature, and projects foster connection and creativity.
A Secure Home
Burning Man backup
Connection to Earth
Transformation & nature
Stewardship, storytelling, and hands-on participation create transformation and deeper connections to the earth.
BWB Campouts
18 BWB Campouts
Burners Without Borders gathers to collaborate, restore, and innovate.
Entryway to BRC
Welcoming new Citizens
Thousands of new Burning Man participants bring ideas and passions developed at Fly Ranch.
Staff Healing
Burning Man Staff Soaks
Fly staff soaks offer rejuvenation during the event season.
Geopolitical Affairs
Relationships and engagement
Fly builds relationships with governments, key players, and and leaders through coalitions, gatherings, and shared interests.
Public benfit
For Gerlach & the region
Participants support businesses and the economy in Gerlach and Northern Nevada year-round. Programs provide education, ecological restoration, recreation, and cultural exchanges that strengthen community resilience.
Fly Stewards
Projects at Fly Ranch are proposed and managed by 2,000 global members who contribute expertise, labor, and vision to support Fly’s mission. Stewards hail from different projects, events, fields, organizations, and disciplines. For a project as complex on a site so vast, it takes many types.
Project Teams
Site based projects
⛩️ Guardians Tend the land
🚶🏽♀️ Walk Guides led 1K+ walks
😮 185 LAGI Teams & 33 Jurors
🔧 200 LAGI Technical Advisors
🎨 26 Fly Art Teams
💪 BWB is the ❤️ & 🙌s of Fly
🐝 Fly Ranch bee team
🧖 Art of Steam banya masters
🇫🇮 Finnish Sauna Society
☀️ Milk + Honey: Fly’s first solar
📦 Container camp
Events
103 Campouts
🪐 Dozens of art campouts
⛺ 17 BWB campouts
🚜 15 Work Weekends
♻️ 12 Stewardship Days
🧑🤝🧑 4 Friends & Family Campouts
🏗️ 3 LAGI Campouts
✨ 2 Volunteerism Summits
♻️ 2 Leave No Trace trainings
📡 STEAM Gathering
🦋 Bioblitz 🔎 five new species
📖 BIPOC Women Writers
Partners
Geopolitical stakeholders
🌄 Friends of the Black Rock
📚 Gerlach K12, GGID, & CAB
🚌 Pyramid Lake HS & Museum
⛰️ Eight American Indian Tribes
🎓 University of Nevada Reno
🦎 Center for Biological Diversity
🚰 Great Basin Water Network
🏜️ Desert Research Institute
🌾 NV Div of Natural Heritage
🌵 Bureau of Land Management
💼 US Department of the Interior
Heartspace
During your time at Fly, we hope you’re able to connect with the land, life, and ecology. We hope you get to have a direct experience, sense the space and magic, and hear and feel the land. We hope you sense your vision for what we can do and what you can do. We hope you get to experience the interconnected nature of the land Burning Man manages, how the staff and projects out here support Black Rock City, and how much we could do out here. We hope you discover ways you want to contribute and participate. When we leave Fly and go elsewhere, a quiet and peaceful place in our hearts holds the land and space. We find happiness and peace in knowing that it is here and will always be here for us, for our community, and for humanity. We hope you are able to bring Fly home in your heart.
We are Visitors
Fly Ranch and the surrounding region has a 15,000+ year history of stewardship. In the U.S. there are 574 federally recognized Indian Nations. As many as 18 million people once lived freely throughout the country. Northern Nevada Tribes include the Numu (Northern Paiute), Nuwu (Southern Paiute), and Newe (Western Shoshone). The Numu recognize a transcendental power in nature called puha that can be in plants, stones, water, and elsewhere. Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribal Council Member Maurice Eban explained: “Since time immemorial, we Indian People have had a respect for the land that we walk upon. At no time has that caretaking responsibility changed. Indian People are still the rightful caretaker of this land.” This surfaces questions for us that feel important to continually consider. We work to embody civic responsibility, be good future ancestors, and revere and serve the land. Enrolled members of the Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe, Fallon Paiute-Shoshone Tribe, Te-Maok Tribe of Western Shoshone, Yerington Paiute Tribe, Big Pine Paiute Tribe, Haliwa Saponi, Tule River Yokuts and Nüümü (Paiute) Nations, Citizen Potawatomi Nation, and the Navajo Nation have been involved with Fly Ranch, especially in LAGI. To learn more visit the Pyramid Lake Tribe Paiute Museum, read a book. The video below is about the Pyramid Paiute Tribe Museum Medicine Garden and Haba. Billie Jean Guerrero, the Museum Executive Director, explains how these projects were supported by volunteers and funding from Ripple from LAGI at Fly Ranch and Burners Without Borders. The garden and shade are well worth the stop on your way to Fly Ranch. It is visible from the road and accessible anytime.
Be a Founder
We do not intend to use these sites as a refuge or retreat from the world. Instead, it is our aim to treat these places as a platform from which to project our culture outward. We believe this platform can be made to function as a chambered heart, continually pumping new vitality into the body of a worldwide community. This vision is not based on the findings of consumer focus groups or the result demographic projections – it is an act of faith deriving from our deeply felt experience of Burning Man. People often approach me in the desert, asking if I ever thought that our event would grow to be so large. Lately I have learned to look about, taking in everything around me, and say I think this is a good start. Anyone at any time can be a founder, and we invite you to join us.
Larry Harvey, “Giving to Fly Ranch: An Open Letter to Our Community", 2017.