Nevada

  • BLM sheep permitting kills another bighorn herd

    Ken Cole

    Well, the BLM has done it again, they’ve managed to wipe out another herd of bighorn sheep.  A herd of California bighorn sheep in the Snowstorm Mountains of northern Nevada is the latest victim of disease caused by domestic sheep.  While the Nevada Department of Wildlife hesitates to say whether interaction with domestic sheep is…

  • Interior Releases Report Highlighting Impacts of Climate Change to Western Water

    Brian Ertz

    Escalation of Western Water Wars Loom The finite availability of western water is part of the reason Ralph Maughan previously posed the question : Will the resource sucking “sin city” be reclaimed by the desert ?  Perhaps eventually, but in the meantime – despite setbacks, the Southern Nevada Water Authority keeps stretching its tentacles in…

  • China Mountain/Browns Bench Wind controversy escalates

    Brian Ertz

    “I can assure you there will be a protracted legal fight using all legal means available to stop the project” Some of the really great things I enjoy about living in the west are the obscure landscapes/mountain ranges.  Unlike national parks, ‘W‘ilderness areas, National Monuments and other landscapes prominently highlighted on any western map, there…

  • Eagle Concerns Stymie Wind Farms

    Brian Ertz

    Wind Farms On Public Land Stymied By Eagle Concerns, Radar Interference The article notes a growing recognition of conflicts wind development on public lands are running into, slowing wind development on public lands across the West. Eagle Concerns Stymie Wind Farms – AP The only project approved is the Spring Valley wind farm in Nevada…

  • Nevada wildlife commissioners might make it legal to shoot a 'lone wolf' though federal fines would remain

    Ken Cole

    Nevada wildlife commissioners might make it legal to shoot a ‘lone wolf’ though federal fines would remain. The Reno Gazette-Journal

  • Spring Valley, Nevada

    Brian Ertz

    Where NOT to hastily site an Industrial-scale Wind Energy Project Just north of Great Basin National Park, east of Ely in Eastern Nevada, lies a public landscape called Spring Valley. Spring Valley is a miraculous place, renowned for its magnificent skies and as critical habitat for sagebrush obligate species such as sage grouse and pygmy…

  • Leaving Las Vegas: Will Sharon Angle turn out the lights?

    Ralph Maughan

    Will the resource-sucking “sin city” be reclaimed by the desert? Everyone knows at least a little bit about Las Vegas. To many visitors, Las Vegas is Nevada. In terms of population this is almost true. The large majority of the state’s population lives in Clark County (Las Vegas) — almost 2-million people live in this…

  • Madeleine Pickens 'buys the Ranch' setting the stage for wild horse sanctuary in northeastern Nevada

    Brian Ertz

    Saving America’s Mustangs: A Prospectus Recently, Madeleine Pickens purchased the 14,000 acre Spruce Ranch and gained control of adjacent BLM livestock grazing allotments amounting to 500,000 acres between Wells and Ely, Nevada. This private land acquisition and control of the associated public lands sets the stage for Pickens’ intent to create a wild horse sanctuary…

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‎”At some point we must draw a line across the ground of our home and our being, drive a spear into the land and say to the bulldozers, earthmovers, government and corporations, “thus far and no further.” If we do not, we shall later feel, instead of pride, the regret of Thoreau, that good but overly-bookish man, who wrote, near the end of his life, “If I repent of anything it is likely to be my good behaviour.”

Edward Abbey

“The continued existence of wildlife and wilderness is important to the quality of life of humans.”

Jim Fowler

“Our forests offer much more than just beautiful landscapes and wildlife. Each one has a different story to tell.”

Raveena Tandon

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