NV Energy Bulldozers Tear In to Proposed Area of Critical Environmental Concern
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.
Latest public lands sell-off proposal “outrageous”
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.
Friends sues federal agencies to protect proposed ACEC
6/17/26 UPDATE: Sign our updated petition requesting that none of the proposed Esmeralda 7 solar projects, including the NextEra Esmeralda Energy Center, be approved in order to fully support the multiple Tribal efforts to document this ethnographic landscape through a Traditional Cultural Property (TCP) process that is currently underway.
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.
"Congressman Amodei has betrayed all Nevadans"
May 8, 2025 - Executive Director Shaaron Netherton issued this statement following Congressman Mark Amodei's move to sell off public lands:
"Friends of Nevada Wilderness has spent the past 25 years working across the state in good faith with
a broad range of Nevadans trying to solve public land issues for both conservation and
development.
Washoe County Commission Proclaims International Dark Sky Week!
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.
Special Reno Phil event to feature Friends
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.
NV Senators write letter regarding public lands employee firings
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.
Senator Rosen reintroduces Truckee Meadows lands bill!
February 6, 2025 - We are very grateful to Senator Jacky Rosen for reintroducing the Truckee Meadows Public Lands Management Act today. While the bill was voted out of a key Senate Committee in the last Congress, it failed to get final approval. We truly appreciate Senator Rosen's tenacity and commitment to this legislation. Read Senator Rosen's announcement here.
Friends honors amazing people who do amazing things
December 16, 2024 – Volunteers like Kevin Williams make it a little easier to convince others to travel miles out to the wilderness to donate their time cleaning campsites, fixing fence and performing other hard, hands-on tasks. That’s because he guarantees that everyone will be rewarded at the end of the day with some of the best campfire food that can be cooked up.
Washoe County lands bill advances out of Committee
November 19, 2024 – Today, the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee voted to advance Senator Jacky Rosen’s (D-NV) Truckee Meadows Public Lands Management Act out of committee. The bill, commonly referred to as the Washoe County Lands Bill, will expand local economic and housing development opportunities, support Tribal communities, and protect public lands and outdoor recreation.
