Creativity & Innovation

AT FLY RANCH, OUR 3,800 ACRE RANCH IN NORTHERN NEVADA, STEWARDS WORK YEAR-ROUND TO SUPPORT THE ECOSYSTEM AND NURTURE A PLATFORM FOR ARTISTS, MAKERS AND COMMUNITY LEADERS.

BRINGING PEOPLE TOGETHER ON THE LAND

LEARNING ABOUT THE LAND AND EACH OTHER

Fly Ranch serves as a community space that brings people together to share knowledge, learn about the land, and collaboratively steward the desert ecosystem.

• 2,500+ people visited Fly Ranch in 2023
• 51 Nature Walks hosted by Friends of Black Rock High Rock
• 85+ Guardian Shifts completed by 50+ active Guardians
• 8 affiliated campouts, including the BWB Summit

A BIOBLITZ IDENTIFIES 21 NEW SPECIES

Every year we learn more about the fauna and flora that live at Fly Ranch, their home. Building on research we’ve done on species at Fly, scientists from the Nevada Division of Natural Heritage did a BioBlitz to study the ecology at Fly. They documented 15 new plant species, three new snails, and two new beetles.

LISTEN TO “MYSTERIES OF DESERT WILDLIFE” ON THE BURNING MAN LIVE PODCAST

Meet the desert wildlife that call Fly Ranch home in this interview with Dr. Lisa ‘Scirpus’ Beers, Burning Man Project’s land fellow studying the Fly Hot Springs territory. LISTEN NOW >

POWERED BY RENEWABLE ENERGY

Fly Ranch operations, friends and family campouts, and stewardship days have been solar powered since 2018.

NEXUS INSTALLS THEIR LAGI PROTOTYPE ON THE LAND

In 2020, Fly Ranch was the site of the Land Art Generator Institute’s (LAGI) design challenge. The ten finalists were invited to Fly to begin work on their projects. In 2023, the final team, Nexus, installed a functional prototype of their carbon-neutral ferrock structure.

OH HONEY, HERE COME THE BEES

With a long-term goal to foster pollinator habitat and population at Fly Ranch, the Fly Ranch Bee team built and installed honey bee homes at Fly. We have now harvested two batches of honey.