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Contents Your online donation is secure and helps protect wild lands all across Nevada. |
Friends marks it's 25th Anniversary Year A note from Shaaron Netherton, Executive Director Dear Friends of Nevada Wilderness Members, Luncheon with Nevada state legislators
Friends of Nevada Wilderness has been working with our partners in the conservation
community to put together the Conservation Priorities for a Sustainable Nevada.
A brief summary of these priorities is listed later in this newsletter.
Thursday, March 26th Nevada State Museum Enjoy the beauty of Nevadas Wild Places and
learn about protecting the Gold Butte Region:
Saturday, March 28th Just for Kids (and kids at heart) 1:00PM at the Fort 2375 Dickerson Road, Reno (west on 2nd Street from Keystone) for a kids version of Sharon Shafers The Art of Nature: Images from the Wildlands of Nevada. There will be art supplies on hand after the presentation for kids to draw their own wilderness art to be used to help protect Gold Butte. March 27-29: Solider Meadows/Fly Canyon Join Pat Bruce for a vehicle route restoration project
Enjoy the longest day of the year at the height of the wild flower season while removing unneeded fence in the incredible National Sheldon Antelope Refuge. Many, many more trips will be added through the year, so keep checking Friends' website. If you want to help keep these great opportunities coming please click the button to donate:  Conservation Priorities for a Sustainable Nevada The Conservation Priorities for a Sustainable Nevada are four consensus bills to take to the Nevada Legislature that will improve the land, air, water and wildlife of our state. The priorities are the following: Public Land Protection Presently, Nevada does not have a system of titling and registration of off highway vehicles (OHV). As a result, a small number of irresponsible users are causing widespread damage to our public lands, wildlife habitat and agricultural areas. Our state should implement a system to register OHVs with an identifiable tag so that people can report irresponsible users. Accurate Carbon Accounting With a new administration and new Congress in Washington, legislation to control the emission of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases is likely to be passed relatively soon. The cost of controlling carbon needs to be accurately accounted for in the resource planning process through the PUC if Nevada ratepayers are to be adequately protected from skyrocketing fuel costs. Responsible Water Management As the driest state in the nation, Nevadans understand the importance of sound water management to make our precious resource stretch to ensure our viability. Currently, there is no law on the books to require the State Engineer to recognize the interconnection between ground and surface water (conjunctive use). This law needs to be enacted to make sure that future state engineers take this into account when making their decisions. Wildfire Prevention and Habitat Protection Cheat grass, an invasive species not native to the Great Basin, is taking over the landscape, crowding out native plants, destroying wildlife habitat and serving as a fuel for expensive and devastating wildfires. If our state does not act now, we will face further negative consequences, including more wildfires, loss of wildlife habitat and the potential listing of species such as the sage grouse. We need to create a position within the Department of Wildlife to seek and leverage funds for this fight. Return to Events. Stan Weidert remembered
2009 Wild Nevada Calendars Half-price Sale
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Life-long conservationist, Stan Weidert, passed away on Christmas
Day, 2008. An avid outdoorsman and long-time Friends' member, Stan was very active with
several other groups including the Sierra Club, Earth Share and the Sierra Nevada Alliance. Stan
loved to lead outings into the wild places of the Great Basin.
