The Owens Valley Committee
Promoting citizen involvement in water and land management 

Make contact

Silence is a form of agreement.

	photo by Stephen Ingram

If your elected officials don't hear from you, they'll assume that you like everything they're doing. Write or call elected officers or representatives and tell them what you think and why. Write letters to the editor when you want to share an opinion with your community and when you'd like others to take action, too. Expect much faster results than you'd get waiting for the next election.

1. Write local and state government officials

Inyo County Board of Supervisors, P.O. Drawer N, Independence, CA 93526

Board of Water and Power Commissioners, Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, Room 1555H, 15th floor, 111 North Hope Street, Los Angeles, CA 90012

Representative Buck McKeon (25th District Representative), <www.house.gov/mckeon/contact.htm>, 2351 Rayburn HOB, Washington, D.C. 20515

Senator Barbara Boxer, 112 Hart Senate Office Building, Washington, D.C. 20510

Senator Dianne Feinstein, 331 Hart Senate Office Building, Washington, D.C. 20510

2. Write letters to the editor

The Inyo Register <ir_editor@earthlink.net>, 450 East Line Street, Bishop, CA 93514

Mammoth Times<news@MammothTimes.com>, P.O. Box 3929, Mammoth Lakes, CA 93546

The Los Angeles Times <letters@latimes.com>, Letters to the Times, Los Angeles Times, 202 W. First Street, Los Angeles, CA 90012