April 22, 2025 - Thank you to the Washoe County Commission for its unanimous vote to proclaim April 21 – 28 International Dark Sky Week in Washoe County, home of some of the darkest skies in the country, including the Massacre Rim International Dark Sky Sanctuary....Read more »

March 19, 2025 - Join Friends of Nevada Wilderness and the Reno Phil March March 22 & 23 to enjoy the world premiere performance of The Sacrifice of Prometheus by composer Marko Bajzer, Great Basin National Park's Artist-in-Residence, who used electrodes to monitor the park's bristlecones and convert their conductivity into his music. Audiences will also be treated to Beethoven's Emperor Concerto and Respighi's Pines of Rome. ...Read more »

February 18, 2025  – Today, U.S. Senators Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.) and Jacky Rosen (D-Nev.) sent two letters to the Trump administration regarding his recent decision to terminate several thousand employees at the United States Forest Service (USFS) and the Department of the Interior (DOI). The senators expressed deep concerns about the risks that these mass firings could have on the millions of acres of public lands in Nevada and demanded transparency about the projects the terminated employees had been responsible for....Read more »