Despite the lawsuit Friends of Nevada Wilderness filed concerning the BLM's failure to analyze a more sustainable route for Greenlink West into an already-built-out power corridor outside key bighorn habitat and cultural areas, NV Energy’s bulldozers have recently begun destroying the heart of our proposed Esmeralda-Fish Lake Area of Critical Environmental Concern. ...Read more »

June 12, 2025 - Friends of Nevada Wilderness is calling Utah Senator Mike Lee’s latest proposal to mandate the sale of 2.2 to 3.2 million acres of BLM and National Forest lands “outrageous” and urges Nevadans and Westerners to contact their Senators and demand they oppose it....Read more »

May 28, 2025 - Today, Friends of Nevada Wilderness and Basin and Range Watch filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Nevada challenging the decisions by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management (“BLM”), U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (“FWS”), and the National Park Service (“NPS”) to authorize portions of NV Energy’s proposed Greenlink West Project, a controversial, 472-mile system of new overhead transmission lines and substations in western Nevada in violation of federal environmental law. ...Read more »