National
Monument
Proposal
for Las
Vegas
Valley
| 10,000-plus Public Acres in Upper Las Vegas Wash Will Not Be Sold to Private Developers
[In response to pressure from the Center for Biological Diversity and
other conservation groups - including the Sierra Club- the Bureau of
Land Management today announced it was removing 10,670 acres of
environmentally sensitive and important lands from the list of areas
available for sale to private developers. This land lies between the
northern boundaries of the cities of Las Vegas and North Las Vegas and
the Desert National Wildlife Refuge, in an area known as the Upper Las
Vegas Wash or Tule Springs. [More...]
The
largest
late
Pleistocene
paleontological
sites
in
the
American
Southwest
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Sage Grouse need habitat protection and restoration
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The BLM is inviting
the public to provide comments on what its Environmental Impact
Statement on Sage Grouse should address.
Please ask BLM to figure out what measures are necessary to protect and
restore Sage Grouse habitats on public lands in Nevada and how to
implement them in an effective manner to make listing under the
Endangered Species Act unnecessary. Click to take action.
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Decisions due in 2012 on Water Grab
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Sierra Club & GBWN slams water grab ruling by State Engineer: 'News
that Nevada State Engineer Jason King granted the Southern Nevada Water
Authority rights to pump up to 83,988 acre-feet of the groundwater from
four eastern Nevada valleys drew a swift and stern response from
pipeline opponents, who called the ruling “excessive and
ill-considered.” ' More ...
- Will the Nevada
State Engineer, Jason King, decide to grant water applications filed by
the Southern Nevada Water Authority (SNWA) for its groundwater mining
project in eastern Nevada? The Engineer could approve all, some,
or none of SNWA's applications. His decision is due sometime in
March, 2012. (More ... )
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Lake Tahoe
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- Did
you know the Lake Tahoe forest area will undergo its first new
management plan in nearly three decades? The Lake Tahoe Basin is vital
wildlife habitat, a playground for skiing, hiking, and boating, local
employment, and a critical source of clean drinking water. The
draft plan should appear in 2012. Check it out here
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"The" Lake is threatened by the unilateral action of Nevada to pu ll-out
of the TRPA. Tahoe is one unique place on earth and can only
suffer if we go back to the 1960's free-for-all speculation pushed by
Tahoe's city governments, 5 different
county governments, and 2 state governments. We need a strong
TRPA to set the limits to protect the Lake's water clarity and
environment. The public has invested hundreds of millions in
protection; let's not destroy Tahoe's clarity through a return to
short-term thinking. More ...
- The Club has won a victory to make the TRPA protect and restore the lake's famed clarity. More ...
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Sierra Club seeks to shut down the Reid-Gardner
Coal Plant
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Las Vegas Channel 8: I-Team: Paiute Tribe Partners With Environmentalists to Close Power Plant "...
Sometimes, the fumes or gases that roll over the Moapa Reservation are
invisible, detectable only by their gag-inducing odor...." Click to see news story by George Knapp. |
Wild
Horses:
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Ruby Pipeline
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- [Our lawsuit over the Ruby
Pipeline are still before the court.] -- The proposed Ruby Pipeline
could avoid major damage to wildlife
habitat, open space and cultural sites if it were rerouted, claimed
Defenders of Wildlife, the Sierra Club Toiyabe Chapter and Great Basin
Resource Watch in a legal challenge filed late Friday. ... [More]
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Watch the Global
Temps
since 1880's
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Global
temperature animation of actual temperatures from 1880's to today - watch.
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Walker
Lake
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What will
it take to save Walker Lake: The latest research offers some
answers
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| Will
Federal
Study
Save
Great
Basin
Nat'l Park?
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Will
the study results come too late to save the Great Basin National
Park is the question confronting Sierra Club leaders and local
residents and Park-supporters? More...
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