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Working to Keep Nevada Forever Wild
Friends of Nevada Wilderness has been successful in protecting over 3 million acres of Nevada wilderness. Getting wilderness designated is the first step toward long-term protection of these special areas but it's not enough. Our wild lands need help to heal from past uses and abuses.
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Explore wild Nevada as a wilderness steward Events, Trips & Trainings 5/25/2012 Black Rock Rendezvous
6/1/2012 Backcountry Trails Training
6/2/2012 National Trails Day
6/9/2012 Hunter Creek (Mt Rose) day trip
6/15/2012 Black Rock fence/exclosure project
6/22/2012 Santa Rosa Wilderness trail restoration and maintenance
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Something to Ponder
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Breaking News
Buy shoes — save wilderness!
Patagonia, that great conservation-and-environment-oriented retailer, once again has selected Friends of Nevada Wilderness as beneficiary of their Patagonia Footwear Advocate Weeks event. Between May 3 and May 16, 2012, for every pair of Patagonia shoes purchased on Zappos.com, Patagonia will donate $10 to Friends of Nevada Wilderness. As of this posting, quite a few Patagonia shoes are on sale at Zappos.com — so you can get a great deal AND help Nevada's wild places. All the money received by Friends will go directly into wilderness programs to make Nevada an even better place for us all. Just think — by buying Patagonia shoes at Zappos.com by May 16, you will help assure there will still be a great outdoors to wear them in!
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The Sheldon crew needs YOU! One paid job opening remains for the Sheldon Summer Crew. Spend your summer getting great exercize on the wild and wonderful Sheldon National Wildlife Refuge. Working as part of a small, dedicated crew you will be pulling out barbed-wire fence to make the range safer for pronghorn antelope, sage grouse and other wildlife. You will earn a salary plus your room and board are covered for the field season. If this sounds like a match for you, please call Pat Bruce at (775) 815-5598 or email Pat for more info and to apply.
* * * Call for Photos for 2013 Wild Nevada Calendar Amateur and professional nature photographers welcome! Friends of Nevada Wilderness publishes the Wild Nevada calendar each year to help the public appreciate and support Nevada's beautiful public lands, so we can all enjoy them for generations to come. The Wild Nevada calendar is a great venue to advertise your photographic talents and help protect Nevada's wildlands.
Submit your photos by: June 4, 2012. Click here for Wild Nevada calendar guidelines and “how to submit.”
* * * Restoring habitat in the Tom Basin burn area A team of volunteers braved chilly temperatures to plant native brush in the Santa Rosa Range (north of Winnemucca), the first of four trips this spring to restore a burned area. The Tom Basin Fire, which burned in 2011, left the area scorched and gave a foothold for invasive species.
Volunteers planted 700 bitterbrush plants and over 150 Great Basin big sage and Wyoming big sage starts. The area is home to mule deer, which rely on bitterbrush for a large portion of their winter diet. Aside from being a favorite area for mule deer, Tom Basin is also habitat for the sage grouse.
Join us to restore Tom Basin - there are still opportunities this spring to make a huge difference in wild Nevada! Email Brenna for dates and details.
* * * Student volunteers help the Desert National Wildlife Refuge Students from the University of Nevada, Reno got wild in a different way when they spent their spring break volunteering in the Desert National Wildlife Refuge outside of Las Vegas. Led by Friends of Nevada Wilderness, the team worked to restore and re-naturalize the area for wildlife and people alike.
The crew completed 5 road restorations and planted over 120 native trees and shrubs during their week of volunteering, and contributed over $29,000 of in-kind service while improving wildlife habitat.
While the students and other volunteers invested “sweat equity,” many other sponsors and partners came together to make the project a success. The Great Basin Institute supplied vehicles to transport students and volunteers to and from the project, and the US Fish and Wildlife Service and the Southern Nevada Agency Partnership provided food and support for the program. Additional sponsorship came from REI, the Southern Nevada Conservancy, GSI Outdoor, and PortaJane. Click here to read more.
And you can watch the YouTube video here.
* * * Pine Forest Range bill has successful hearings in Congress
On March 8, HR 3377 the Pine Forest Range Wilderness bill was heard in the House Natural Resources Committee's Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands. On March 22, the Senate's same version of the bill, S 1788, was heard in the Senate's Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Public Lands and Forests. Thus, the Pine Forest Range bill is closer to becoming law — and to receiving the full protection of wilderness designation for this beautiful piece of Humboldt County, Nevada. Next steps — the bills need to be marked-up out of the committees for approval of the full House and Senate. There are a number of ways this might happen. We will keep you posted. We encourage you to write or call the entire Nevada Congressional delegation to thank them for moving protection for the Pine Forest Range along. — Nevada Senator Harry Reid issued a statement about the Pine Forest Range, the bill and the two-year-long local process that led to the bill's introduction. You can read Senator Reid's statement here. You can also read the Pine Forest bill as introduced in the Senate on November 2, 2011 by Senators Reid and Heller.
* * * Repurpose your old Friends' calendars Did you know you can make beautiful cards and envelopes from old Friends of Nevada Wilderness' calendars? It is fun and easy!
All you need is some colorful paper, card stock, double-sided tape (or rubber cement), scissors and an old Friends' calendar. Click here to download the complete instructions (3.5MB PDF) Or read the instructions on Friends' blog.
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