Mother of Nevada Wilderness Writes on the Importance of Public Lands
Friends of Nevada Wilderness' founding board member, Marge Sill, recently penned an article in the Toiyabe Trails Summer 2015 issue on the importance of public lands and how you can get involved to make a difference. Read the full article here.
Live Monumental...for Gold Butte!
Join KEEN Footwear in showing Washington D.C. that public lands – and Gold Butte – are important to you.
KEEN Footwear has recently launched Live Monumental, a campaign designed to showcase some of the exceptional places where we play that deserve protection. Gold Butte is one of five places featured in this campaign, which will be touring across the USA this summer. On Thursday July 30th, KEEN will be co-hosting a Live Monumental event with Zappos.com and Friends of Nevada Wilderness - stop by to sign the petition and celebrate with us! More information and to RSVP for the event, click here!
The Desert National Wildlife Refuge Needs Your Help
Critical bighorn sheep habitat is still threatened by language in the National Defense Authorization Act that would give more than half of the Desert National Wildlife Refuge away to the Air Force - who have said they don't even want it! Congressman Cresent Hardy is now on the committee that will decide the fate of the Refuge and its protected species by the end of the week.
Please call Congressman Hardy’s office and urge him to defend this precious habitat: DC Office: (202) 225-9894
President Obama Protects Basin and Range National Monument
Today, President Barack Obama proclaimed his largest national monument on America’s public lands, protecting more than 700,000 acres of our spectacular Basin and Range landscape. This is great news – please join us in thanking him, as well as Senator Harry Reid and Congresswoman Dina Titus for championing this effort.
Help Re-authorize the Land & Water Conservation Fund
The Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF) has helped protect some of Nevada’s most treasured places. Nevada has received approximately $104 million over the past five decades from this non-taxpayer fund to help protect places such as the Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest and the Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area. We need your help to ensure the LWCF is reauthorized before it expires in September 2015, and at the same time, urge Congress to provide robust funding for LWCF when funding levels are decided this summer. Sign the petition here!
Act Now to Protect Basin & Range
Just two hours from the lights of Las Vegas lies an incredible landscape of limitless valleys and majestic mountain ranges. Garden Valley and Coal Valley are two unspoiled basins framed by incredible mountain ranges and peaks that tower overhead and you have the opportunity to keep them undeveloped.
Sheldon in the News
The greater Sheldon-Hart mountain area (consisting of Nevada's Sheldon National Wildlife Refuge and Oregon's Hart Mountain National Wildlife Refuge) was recently allocated nearly $4 million for wildfire resiliency and habitat restoration by the Interior Department.
Nevada Outdoor School is Hiring
One of our fantastic partner organizations, Nevada Outdoor School is hiring for a new Executive Director. Join an awesome non-profit that is doing great work in Northern Nevada!
Sign the Petition to Keep It Public
To add to the recent onslaught of anti-public land legislation, Congressman Mark Amodei introduced HR1484 into the House of Representatives. HR1484, if passed, would transfer the majority of public lands in Nevada to state ownership thereby opening these lands to private ownership.
SJR1 Makes Its Way to the State Assembly
SJR1 passed the State Senate and is now on its way to the Assembly. This Thursday, May 7th, SJR1 - the bill that will dismantle public lands in Nevada - will make its way to the Assembly Committee on Legislative Operations. Make your voice heard that public lands matter!
