Close by the proposed site are swimming holes, including Alvord Hot Springs and blue, glittering Borax Lake.

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Near Borax Lake cauldrons sit rusting, abandoned by a borax mining outfit that worked here a century ago.

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The lake's owner, the Nature Conservancy, asks that they not: The ecosystem is home to the endangered 2-inch Borax Lake chub, which exists only here.

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