The McDermitt Caldera is an extinct supervolcano on the Oregon-Nevada border that's loaded with enough lithium to power 600 ...

When Daranda Hinkey, a 23-year-old member of the Fort McDermitt Paiute and Shoshone Tribe in northern Nevada, gazes across the austere expanse of old growth sagebrush 25 miles southwest of her ...

Nevada lithium mine kicks off a new era of Western extraction The hastily approved project went forward without comment from the Fort McDermitt Paiute Shoshone Tribe. Maya L. Kapoor February 18, 2021 ...

It is in Humboldt County Nevada, west-northwest of Orovada, Nevada within the McDermitt Caldera. The caldera is about 28 miles (45 km=ilometers) long north-south and 22 miles (35 km) wide east-west.

And then there’s this. The Nevada Highway Patrol is escorting a 406,495-pound power transformer from Oregon, beginning in McDermitt, Nevada, to the California border on U.S. Highway 6.

"We're not preserving a lot of history of our own, of our land and our land," says Arlo Crutcher, a member of the Ft. McDermitt Tribal Council.

A sagebrush plant is pictured in the McDermitt Caldera on the Oregon-Nevada border Saturday, April 2, 2022. Sage grouse rely on sagebrush for food, brooding and shelter. Bradley W. Parks / OPB ...

The McDermitt caldera, located at the border between Nevada and Oregon, has the unique feature of having been a closed basin, whereas many other calderas empty through a river or stream. A lake formed ...

Fort McDermitt is a Census-designated place in Humboldt County, Nevada, with a population of 336. The total cost of housing, food, child care, transportation, health care, taxes, and other ...