Take Action - Help Protect Mineral County's Wild Places

ACTION NEEDED: Please write the Nevada Congressional delegation today supporting wilderness designation for wild places in Mineral county.

Addresses are to the right, and talking points are below.

Background:  In June of 2007, the Nevada Congressional delegation initiated a public lands bill process that could ultimately protect some of western Nevada’s most expansive and wild areas in Mineral county. The delegation had tours with county commission members and key local government employees and stakeholders including folks from the Nevada Wilderness Coalition over the summer and fall of 2007. During 2008 there have been a number of public meetings largely focusing on wilderness issues. Friends of Nevada Wilderness and the broader Nevada Wilderness Coalition have been meeting with a variety of people looking for specific information and feedback on our initial wilderness inventory maps.

Our goal is to work with folks in Mineral county, as well as around the state, to find common ground where possible on wild areas that deserve long term protection. We will encourage Congress to protect these wild places through legislation.

Talking Points for your Own Letter

• Many of these wild places lie in an important transition zone between the Sierra Nevada and the Great Basin. They provide important habitat and migration routes between these important life zones and north-south within mountain ranges. These places include:

  • Excelsiors/Long Valley

  • Gabbs Valley Range Wilderness Study Area.

• The Gabbs Valley Range provides important habitat for bighorn sheep.

• The Wassuks contain important archaeological resources.

• The Gabbs Valley Range is threatened by abundant illegal vehicle use.

• The Excelsior Mountains Proposed Wilderness is large, remote and rugged. In addition to their wildlife habitat and archaeological resources, the Excelsiors are home to extreme solitude (a commodity that is becoming increasingly rare today and deserves to be preserved into the future).

• If you have personal experience with any of the places in our inventory, explain why you love them.

How to take action:

"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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