Mason Voehl, executive director of the Amargosa Conservancy, leads a tour of Fairbanks Spring at Ash Meadows National Wildlife Refuge, in the Amargosa Valley of southern Nye County, on Thursday, June 29, 2023. Canada-based Rover Metals proposes drilling up to 30 boreholes 250-300 feet deep to explore for lithium in an area adjacent to the refuge. (Bizuayehu Tesfaye Las Vegas Review-Journal) @btesfaye