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Fly Ranch is a 5.6 square mile sanctuary in Nevada, home to plants, animals, and the Fly Geyser hot springs.
Fly Ranch is a
rural center for interactive arts, community participation, and
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Fly is an oasis of art and ecology that inspires awe and wonder. People gather year-round to explore, create, and innovate.
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Residents
144 plants, 15 mammals, 138 birds, 12 reptiles, and more animal friends live at Fly. The springs are home to a metazoan with the highest temperature tolerance of any metazoan, rare photosynthetic microbial mats, and the Fly Ranch pyrg (Pyrgulopsis bruesi), an endangered highly vulnerable snail found only in one pool at Fly Ranch.
Featured Projects
Fly Ranch is a do-ocracy. Anyone can propose, organize, and manage a project. Projects tend to focus on ecology, art, healing, transformation, regeneration, and education. Most projects create
, contribute to a thriving ecosystem, and support a permanent home for Burning Man. Below are some of the installations, events, and programs at the ranch.
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Fly Bees
A volunteer project spun off from the Ripple team to care for eight beehives.
Baba Yaga's Tea House
An immersive art experience overlooking the stunning high desert landscape.
Writer's Emerging
A retreat to connect with the land and participate in creative workshops.
PLPT Tule Harvest
Indigenous harvest of tule reed used to make traditional burial mats.
SEED Garden
Symbiotic Coevolution: A vision for a generative future by a LAGI finalist.
BWB Summit
A flagship annual gathering held at Fly Ranch with Burners Without Borders.
Burning Man Project CEO Marian Goodell wrote in the Nonprofit's 2019 Annual Report: “Informed by our stewardship of the land and waters at Fly Ranch and the global climate crisis, we created an environmental sustainability roadmap that sets ambitious goals around waste management, ecological impact, and carbon sequestration.” Burning Man's 2030 Sustainability Roadmap has grown into a broad effort that includes Black Rock City, Burners Without Borders, and Regional Network communities and events around the world.