Take Action - Save Nevada's Wild Forests

ACTION NEEDED: Please write the Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest today. Addresses and sample letters and talking points are to the right.

Background: With 6.2 million acres of mountains and forests in Nevada and California’s eastern Sierra Nevada, the Humboldt-Toiyabe (HT) National Forest is the largest forest in the Lower 48. Wilderness areas like Jarbidge, Mt. Charleston, Arc Dome and the Ruby Mountains provide beauty, clean water and air, wildlife habitat and myriad opportunities to hike, backpack, backcountry ski, fish, watch wildlife and breathe solitude deep into your soul.

Our goal is to encourage the Forest Service to protect and conserve all their remaining wilderness quality lands through their forest plan. Without the Forest Service recognizing the wilderness values of the land, our wild areas could be open to mining, oil & gas development, off-road vehicles and other threats. Until Congress considers these lands for wilderness, the Forest Service needs to protect our remaining wilderness resource.

Talking Points for your Own Letter:

• If you have a favorite area you enjoy, please mention it.

• Thank FS for the big job of looking at all their roadless areas for wilderness consideration and for having information available on their website

• All FS areas with high wilderness values should be recommended for wilderness.

• There are wilderness quality lands that need to be added to existing wilderness areas.

• Don’t eliminate areas from wilderness consideration because they may have mineral potential. There are plenty of areas where mining is feasible; let’s not use our most treasured and scenic lands for it.

• Illegal and user-created routes (two-tracks) should not remove an area from consideration as wilderness. These impacts can be healed and repaired.

Unprotected wild gems include the following:

The Toiyabe Crest. Adjacent to the Arc Dome wilderness, this 100,000-acre roadless area is home to the Toiyabe Crest National Recreation Trail and helps make up a 250,000-acre wildland complex for water, wildlife, recreation and solitude.

Pearl Peak. These 60,000 acres of wild mountains south of the Ruby Mountains Wilderness are home to bighorn sheep and ancient bristlecone pines. This area offers bountiful hiking and backcountry skiing.

Job’s Peak. This 21,000-acre roadless area straddles the California-Nevada state line between Lake Tahoe and Nevada’s Carson Valley; home to beautiful views, recreational opportunities, wildlife habitat and intact watersheds in one of the most-visited regions in the country.

Wilderness additions. Many existing wilderness areas are small because much of the wild land was left out of previous wilderness legislation. Now is the time to expand them and protect the rest of the area. These wilderness additions will significantly enhance Nevada’s wild legacy for people and wildlife.

Mail Your Comments to:

Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest
Forest Plan Revision Team 1200 Franklin Way Sparks, NV 89431

To help us make your comments even more effective, Please mail a copy of your letter to us at PO Box 9754,
Reno, NV 89507.

OR you can email your comments to: r4_h-t_fpr_comments@fs.fed.us. Please email a bcc to us at Forests@nevadawilderness.org
 

OR use the Forest Service's comment form.

View the Forest Service Assessment of Wilderness Potential

"Wilderness is disappearing like a snow bank in the hot August sun."

- Robert Marshall

Friends of Nevada Wilderness
PO Box 9754 - Reno, NV 89507
(775) 324-7667

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