The Final Bullet

Just has displacement from tribal lands has lead to a high incidence of diabetes in American Indian communities, the effects of de-culturalization have had negative effects across the entire spectrum of human life and well being. “The Continuum” of land use in history and tribal tradition is the antidote. Construction of the 5 Challenged Projects will set a precedent of the purveyance of inadequate EIS’s and inadequate Section 106 consultation, procedures which aside from being unlawful actions in their own right, will facilitate the development of 245 additional “renewable’ energy projects, to be strewn across the western deserts, with limited concern for their impacts. In so witnessing we would then silently participate in the collapse of ecosystems, the extinctions of undocumented species of flora and fauna, and the collapse of whole cultures and peoples, histories and identities.

In an interview with Film Maker Robert Lundahl, Dr. Jim Andre explains: “I'm a botanist, and I study the plants in the California deserts and Nevada deserts. What has really struck me by this area is the level at which we are just scratching the surface in terms of documenting the flora. You can assume roughly about 5 to 10 percent of the species out there remain undescribed to date. We continue to describe species over the last hundred years at