Take Action - Help Keep Washoe Wild

ACTION NEEDED: If you live in Washoe County, please write the Washoe County Commission AND the Reno or Sparks City Councils if you live within the city boundaries today.

Addresses are to the right and talking points are below.

Background: We are blessed with an abundance of open space in Washoe County from forested areas in the Sierra Nevada to the desert playa of the Black Rock Desert with much more in between but many of our most valued areas near Reno and Sparks especially are at risk due to community expansion and the resulting impacts from new development (2-3% population increase annually). Washoe County is updating their Open Space Plan for the southern part of the county and will be asking for County Commission approval in early 2008. It is critical for citizens like you to be involved to keep these wild open spaces from being developed.

Talking Points for your Own Letter

If you have a favorite wild open space in southern Washoe County please talk about it and why it is important to you.

• These open places help our air and water quality

• Wild places are critical for our wildlife especially deer.

• Our quality of life will be diminished if we lose these places that make the region so special.

• I like to (hike, camp, dog walk, bike, bird watch…) our Washoe County open spaces

• These open spaces are important for our city’s viewshed. Growth need to be focused to the urban core and not 30 miles from town Mention these unprotected wild Washoe gems:

• The Virginia Mountains out by Pyramid Lake

• The Peterson Mountains out by the Cold Springs Development near Bordertown

• The PahRah Mountains out by the wild horse facility east of the Pyramid Highway

• The Dogskin Mountains

Wild Washoe Blog

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

- Robert Marshall

Friends of Nevada Wilderness
PO Box 9754 - Reno, NV 89507
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