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  • Section 1-1.7. The Land.
  • 2-2.2. Infrastructure Experiments
  • 3, 3.1. Sustainability Plans
  • 4, 4.1. Operations
  • 5-5.2 Local Programs
  • 6-6.6. Gatherings
  • 7. Participate.
  • 8-8.3. Media.
  • 9, 9.1. People & Photo Acknowledgements.

1. Greeters Station: Welcome to the Land

Fly Ranch Species List

🦊 🌿 🐟 🐦 🐛

Sounds of Fly Ranch

🦗 🐸 🐎 🐦

The Touch of Fly Ranch

🔍 from the field

1.1 The Land: Water

Water is Life

How we relate to 🌊

Cyanobacteria in springs

🔬 ‘Dark Matter’

Geothermal Considerations

🌡 at 195.4°F 💦

1.2 The Land: Non-native species

Relationship & Perspective

How we approach 👽 species

A brief history

How non-native species arrived

Non-native species plan

Maps, timelines, and approach

1.3 The Land: Nature Videos

Geyser Geothermal Image

🌋 ♨ 📹

Fly Ranch Aquatic Life

📹 of hot springs & 🐟 friends

Nature Walk with Scirpus

Those 🐾 are a mountain lion ☝️

1.4 The Land: Climate & Weather Data

Daily Light Data

Yearly ☀️ in two places

Weather Data

Yearly 🌧 in three places

Windrose graph

Yearly 💨 in two places

1.5 The Land: Interactive Maps

Fly Ranch Artifacts

What we’ve found ⛏️

Property Boundaries

Fly Ranch property map

Fly Ranch Species Map

Interactive species map

1.6 The Land: Species Highlights

Ranch perspectives

The 150 🐄 that live here

Wild Horses

Around 19 🐎 live here

Bobcat

Meet our nocturnal neighbors

1.7 The Land: Species Highlights

Mountain Lion

We only have one 📷

Pronghorn

Second fastest land animal 🌎

2. Infrastructure Experiments: Art

Baba Yaga's House

The Cauldron

The Pier

Matt Schultz & The Pier Group

The Narwhal

Pepe Ozan 🦄 ⛵

The Bone Arch

Michael Christian

The Bone Tree

Dana Albany 🦴

Penguins

Joe Childs 🐧

2.1 Infrastructure Experiments: Mobile Use

VOLTstack batteries

Our friends at Portable Electric

Biofiltration Systems

Our friends at Ecozoic Resources

Russian Banya Project

Our friends from Art of Steam

2.2 Infrastructure Experiments: Solar

Mobile Solar Trailers

Renewable infrastructure

Solar Trailers

Our friends at rent.solar

BWB Array

BWB ❤️ ☀️

3. Sustainability Plans: Fly Ranch Projects

Cottonwood project

A plan for 🌳

Fly Ranch Public Benefit

How we think about public benefit

Water at Burning Man

Burning Man & Fly Ranch 💧 use

3.1  Sustainability Plans: Burning Man 2030 Goals

Can we grow food?

Fly Ranch 🌱 proposal

Carbon Capture Projects

Burning Man 2030 sustainability goals

Scaled infrastructure

☀️ 💨  ♻️ 🌊

4. Operations: Overview

Decision Making

How we work

Zoning & permitted use

General Rural in High Desert Area

Fly Ranch Budget

Learn about our financials

4.1 Operations: Technology Perspectives

Operational overview

📈 about Fly Ranch

Technology Roadmap

Our tech 💭

Blockchain Applications

An experimental proposal

5. Local Programs

Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe

Museum & Visitor Center walks

Friends of Black Rock

Our 🚶🏽‍♂️🚶🏽‍♀️ partners in Gerlach

Bruno's Locals Discussions

LAGI lunch series

5.1 Local Programs: Youth Programs

Boy Scout Troop 512

⚜️ field trip

WashU Urban Design

A LAGI field trip

Gerlach K-12 School

👦🏼 👧🏼 scientists and stewards

5.2 Local Programs: Black Rock City

Panels at BWB

Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion

The Playa Provides

Black Rock City panel & 🚶🏽‍♂️🚶🏽‍♀️

Burning Man Snatch Walks

A surprise 🚌 to Fly

6. Gatherings: Restorations

Landfill Excavation

Landfill mining & reclamation

BWB Restoration Weekend

BWB clean-up weekend

BWB Bridge Building

Built with ♻️ materials

6.1 Gatherings: Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, & Mathematics

STEAM Weekend

Science, Tech, Engineering, Art, & Math

Energy Gathering

Environmental Defense Fund

Geophysics Spring Break

University of Nevada, Reno

6.2 Gatherings: Partnerships

Milk + Honey Solar Array

Our first ☀️ experiment

Ecosystem Restoration

Awful’s Gas & Snack, PLPT, & BWB

Friends of Black Rock

Fierce Fairytales & Folksy Science

6.3 Gatherings: Build Week

Banya Build

😅 on the land

Pier Build

Our first art 🏗️

Baba Yaga Build

🧙🏽‍♂️ 🐔 🏠 🔨

6.4 Gatherings: Teaching & Learning

Leadership Training

Burning Man volunteerism training

Profiles In Dust

🎥 training

Leave No Trace Training

Earth Guardians & Friends training

6.5 Gatherings: Skills & Training

Table & Bench Build

Recycled & reclaimed wood use

Wilderness First Aid

For nature walk guides

Banya Steam Master

Banya use tutorial

6.6 Gatherings: Summits

Burners Without Borders

Fall Summit EcoSprints

Burners Without Borders

Sustainability Spring Summit

Spring Expeditions

Prototype gatherings & research

7. Participate

Become a Geyser Guardian

Come steward the land 🤠

Submit a proposal

Build your own project

Become a Walk Guide

Help others explore Fly Ranch

8. Media: Historical Perspectives

Founding Donors

Fly Ranch purchase history

FiveThirtyEight

The Darkest Skies In America

Burning Man in 1997

ABC Nightline at Fly Ranch

8.1 Media: Recent Perspectives

KRNV NBC Reno

The Rural Incubator of Fly Ranch

KUNR: Fly Geysers Opens

For First Time In Two Decades

College of Science, UNR

Mineral Monday: Field Trip to Fly Ranch

8.2 Media: Fly Ranch Content

Community Meetup

Data Science for Sustainability

2020 Burning Man

)*( at Fly Ranch

Can We Live Off The Land?

Community Discussion at Manny’s

8.3 Media: Sustainability Discussions

Burning Man Live

Zac on LAGI & Fly Programs

LAGI Facebook Live

LAGI, Fly, & Burning Man

Carbon Capture Projects

Pyramid Lake High School class

9. People: Fly Ranch Team

Erika Wesnousky (Volunteer Coordinator), Joe Childs (Land Steward), Lisa Schile-Beers (Land Steward), Matt Sundquist (Director), Zac Cirivello (Operations Manager)

9.1 Photo Credits

Steve Tietze (header image). Introductory section: Zac Cirivello, Steve Tietze, Don Clark, Christopher Breedlove, Will Roger, Lisa Schile-Beers, Android Jones, Nicole Rodney, Tanner Boeger. Section 1. Lisa Schile-Beers (LSB), Steve Tietze, LSB 2.  LSB, LAGI, LSB 3. Tanner Boeger, LSB, LSB 3.1 LSB, Dr. Scott D. Hamilton-Brehm, LSB 3.2 Will Roger, LSB, LSB 3.3 Rina Schumer, Joe Childs, LSB 3.4 LSB, Lisa Nash, Matt Sundquist 3.5 LSB, LSB, Thomas Takano 3.6 LSB, LSB, Fly Ranch Critter Cam (LSB) 3.7 Critter Cam, LSB, LSB   4. Luc Asbury, @ckanani, John Curley, Christopher Breedlove, Joe Childs, Will Roger 4.1 Zac Cirivello, Joe Childs, Vadim Osipov 4.2 Joe Childs, rent.solar, Christopher Breedlove 5. LSB, LSB, LSB 5.1 LSB, LSB, Zac Cirivello 6. LSB, LSB, LSB 6.1 Gordon Ching, LSB, Zac Cirivello 7. LSB, Joe Childs, LAGI 7.1 Joe Childs, @washu.urbandesign, FBRHR 7.2 Burning Man Doc Team, @ZenSalad (Reddit), Zac Cirivello 8. Zac Cirivello, Zac Cirivello, Zac Cirivello 8.1 Judge Jessica Imus, EDF, LSB 8.2 Matt Forkin, Christopher Breedlove, Joe Childs 8.3 Vadim Osipov, Zac Cirivello, @babayagasbookclub 8.4 Nicole Rodney, Profiles in Dust, FBRHR 8.5 Zac Cirivello, FBRHR, @kristizen 8.6 Carmen Mauk, Carmen Mauk, Nicole Rodney 9. Zac Cirivello, LSB, LSB 10. LSB, Fly Ranch Critter Cam, LSB 11. Fly Ranch Critter Cam, @rylander_west & @paulheran, ABC Nightline 11.1 LSB, Fly Ranch Critter Cam, LSB 11.2 LSB, Burning Man Doc Team, LSB, 11.3 Burning Man Live, Christopher Breedlove, Project Drawdown (Neil Ever Osborne).