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B y the N umbers Wilderness Volunteers $1 MILLION FOR Total Volunteers: 3,577 Total Volunteer Hours: 49,164 Total In-Kind Donation (as of Oct. WILDERNESS 15): $1,007,198 Thank You, Volunteers, For Your Wealth of Service to Wild Nevada!

By Brian Beffort / Associate Director

As of fall 2012, Friends of Nevada Wilderness’ wonderful volunteers have donated more than $1 million of in-kind service to benefit wildlife, wild places and the communities that depend on them. Since Friends started counting and tracking volunteers, projects and other accomplishments in 2007, thousands of volunteers have worked more than 50,000 hours, pulling weeds, removing old fence, rehabilitating wildlife habitat damaged by vehicles, clearing trail and monitoring the health of springs, streams, campsites and the health of the land in general. “We couldn’t do the work we do without volunteers,” said Aaron Collins with the Fish & Wildlife Service, Sheldon . “The things that volunteers and groups like Friends do are priorities for us, but we just don’t have staff or resources to do all of this by On Earth Day, these awesome volunteers removed garbage from the Mt. Charleston Wilderness—just one of the many places where Nevada is ourselves.” Continued on Page 10 better off thanks to people who care. Photo: Jose Witt

SOUTHERN NEVADA UPDATE Restore habitat, plant natives ... check!

By Katie Sanchez / Education Coordinator sample of some of the ways Nevada’s wilderness, and hopefully catch problems wildlands are better off thanks to your before they get big; Friends’ fantastic volunteers and four- generous support and their hard work: • Planting native species on the Desert person Student Conservation Association • Campsite assessments in the Mt. National Wildlife Refuge with the Fish crew have been hiking, monitoring, Charleston Wilderness for the Forest and Wildlife Service, to help wildlife; restoring and exploring throughout Service. These help the FS understand • More than 2,850 feet of vehicle southern Nevada in 2012. Here’s a and monitor use of, and impacts on, the Continued on Page 10 2 Friends of Nevada Wilderness

OUR MISSION Friends of Nevada Wilderness rontlines is dedicated to preserving all F qualified Nevada public lands as wilderness, protecting all By Shaaron Netherton / Executive Director In the next two years, we pledge to work present and potential wilderness with elected officials and stakeholders across from ongoing threats, educating With the political Nevada: the public about the values of ­— divisiveness • To secure permanent protection for and need for — wilderness, and dominating our important wildlife habitat, watersheds, forests improving the management and restoration of wild lands. attention these days, and open space in our BLM and Fish and I want to give you Wildlife Service wilderness study areas, and Friends of some positive news. in high-value Forest Service roadless areas, Nevada Wilderness With your help by working with fellow stakeholders to find Box 9754, Reno, NV 89507 since its founding common-sense wilderness boundaries. (775) 324-7667 nearly 29 years ago, • To help sage-grouse and other wildlife Shaaron Netherton Executive Director Friends of Nevada by restoring habitat damaged by fires and [email protected] Wilderness has: protect key habitat from further impacts and Kurt Kuznicki • Led efforts fragmentation. Southern Nevada Director for the designation or expansion of all 68 • To build a bigger, more effective, on- [email protected] wilderness areas in Nevada. the-ground wilderness restoration program Brian Beffort • Built a nationally recognized and that improves wilderness trail access and heals Associate Director [email protected] awarded wilderness stewardship program. wildlife habitat. Pat Bruce Our volunteers giving back over ONE million Stewardship Program Director dollars of labor directly benefitting Nevada’s Together we can do all of this, but we need [email protected] wildlands. your help—your boots on the ground, your Wes Hoskins • Incorporated citizen-science with our dollar donations, and a good word to your Forest Project Coordinator [email protected] volunteer spring monitoring and sage-grouse friends and family about what Nevadans can do Jose Witt lek monitoring. when we work together across political aisles Stewardship Coordinator Pat yourself on the back, because you helped and have them join Friends. Friends of Nevada [email protected] make it possible. And with so much more we Wilderness has a proven track record, and you Katie Sanchez can accomplish together, let’s not stop there. know your time and dollars will be invested Education Coordinator [email protected] We are setting our sights high for the next two wisely. Brenna Archibald years, gearing up to do unprecedented work for Thank you for your hard work for Nevada’s Stewardship Coordinator wilderness. We will have much to celebrate for incredible wild lands, and please contact us [email protected] the 50th anniversary of the and with any questions! Renee Aldrich Friends’ 30th in 2014, but we need your help! Stewardship Coordinator [email protected] Darcy Shepard Administrative Director [email protected] Richard Knox Membership Coordinator Welcome Alli! [email protected] Alli Harvey Campaign Director We’re proud to America the Beautiful as Congressionally [email protected] have Alli Harvey designated wilderness, Alli will be right join Friends as there in the middle of the action. Board of Directors our Campaign “I have a passion for connecting people Roger Scholl, State Chair Hermi Hiatt, Southern Vice-Chair Director. with places they love and helping them care Karen Boeger, Rural Vice-Chair Whether we’re for those places by speaking up for them,” Larry Dwyer, Treasurer kicking off a she said. “What better job is there than one Meghan Wolf, Secretary campaign to that allows me to meet people in the most Bart Patterson raise money gorgeous places in Nevada and help them Peter Bradley John Hiatt and members protect those places, forever? I can’t think Marge Sill to support of one. ” [email protected] Nevada’s Come on out to meet Alli at one of our www.nevadawilderness.org wild places and wildlife, or better yet, to upcoming events. But watch out. Her nevadawild.blogspot.com work with our Congressional leaders and enthusiasm is infectious. She just might get [email protected] fellow citizens to protect Nevada’s share of you excited about Wild Nevada. www.facebook.com/ nevada.wilderness Friends of Nevada Wilderness 3

Burned wildlands, including those from the Holloway Fire (above) and Lost Fire (below), across Nevada need you to help them recover. Friends is working with agencies right now to plan reseeding and restoration projects. A Fiery August August was a tense month, as In other areas, the fires appeared northwest Nevada was pounded by to skip light, cool and fast across the fires, affecting habitat for sage grouse land, clearing out old, decrepit stands and other wildlife. of shrubs and trees, and forming The Lost Fire, Rush Fire, Hanson mosaics of diverse plant species and Fire and Holloway Fire burned more generations. Wildlife still have cover, than 800,000 acres (at least half of as well as sprouts in the spring. that was in either California (Rush You can tip the scales and help Fire) or Oregon (Holloway Fire), and healthy landscapes return. The much of it all through what Nevada Forest Service, NDOW and BLM Department of Wildlife calls critical are planning seed gathering and and irreplaceable or important sage planting projects throughout burned grouse habitat. Nevada this fall and next year. Please In many areas, the fires were too hot, volunteer for seed collection, erosion destroying all plant life — roots, seeds stabilization projects and spring and mulch. There’s nothing to come seedling planting. Let’s work together back; wildlife are left with no food or to help Wild Nevada recover. Stay The Lost Fire, started by lightning, burned about cover, and invasives like cheat grass tuned, and we’ll let you know about 60,000 acres in August. and medusa head can take hold. our upcoming trips (see page 12).

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Friends’ board president Roger Scholl surveys the view from high in the proposed Wovoka Wilderness. Photo: Brian Beffort Wovoka Wilderness: An Idea Whose Time Has Come By Brian Beffort Bodie, just over the hills to the south. His father was a teamster. There’s a The proposed Wovoka Wilderness good possibility he drove his wagons in the Pine Grove Hills is part and right through this country, along the parcel of Nevada’s heritage and plays a into Mason Valley. significant role in local history, regional It’s fun to be in these hills and think ecology, and the hearts of Yerington about him riding by down there in the locals who have been working for a valley.” decade to help this area receive the “My family was among the earliest protection it deserves. settlers in Mason Valley,” says Steve. In 1948, 17-year-old Art Shipley went “My great aunt Abigail Wilson and deer hunting for the first time in the Pine her husband Billy were founders Grove Hills south of Wellington. of the mining camp of Pine Grove. “For the first time, I experienced what it Wovoka took his white name, Jack was like to be in a very special place and Wilson, from them. I have a family be alone with nature,” Art says. “It had a heritage here that ties to the Wovoka pronounced effect upon me. The serenity Wilderness, and I’m quite proud and tranquility were just overwhelming. of that heritage and of the fact I’m It’s a spiritual place for me.” 4th generation and my sons are 5th- “Maybe my love for the place is generation Mason Valleyites.” genetic,” says Art. “My father was born in Continued on Page 5 Friends of Nevada Wilderness 5

Looking south through the proposed Wovoka Wilder- ness, capped by 9,544-foot Bald Mountain in the distance. Inset: Steve Pellegrini (left) and Art Shipley were both born and raised in Yerington. As teachers, they have taught more than 75 combined years in Yerington schools. Art guesses they’ve hiked more than 1,000 miles through these hills. Photos: Brian Beffort

Steve Pellegrini first visited the Pine pine nuts and the pinyon pine for the first miles of forests, canyons and mystery to Grove Hills in 1959 with his father. time. Pinyon pine forests on Wovoka are explore. “That day is emblazoned in my among the oldest pinyons in the Great They’ve also watched roads, mining, memory,” says Steve. “I can still smell Basin. off-road vehicles and other human the place, still feel the mystery and In 1889, while cutting wood in these uses eat away at the edges. They hope beauty of the place. I’ve been in a lot of hills, Paiute healer Wovoka collapsed wilderness designation will spare the mountain ranges, but this one into a vision that inspired last, intact spirit of these mountains. just has a different feel, hard to him to preach moral integrity, In August, Senator Harry Reid describe, like if you turn around ritual dancing and cooperation announced his support for designating quick enough, you’re going to with whites. His Ghost Dance the Wovoka Wilderness as part of the see some special. ” spread to tribes across the Yerington Lands Act, which would sell “The archaeological heritage West and became an important roughly 12,000 acres of public land to in these hills is reason enough part of Native America’s the city of Yerington. Much of it would to protect Wovoka for future history. then become part of Nevada Copper’s generations,” says Art. Art and Steve have been Pumpkin Hollow mine, just east of “However, equally important is working for a Wovoka Steve’s house. that this piece of country is as Wilderness, because they “I support the mine expansion,” says wild as when John C. Fremont know the area offers what a Steve. “We need the jobs here. But I passed through. Why shouldn’t lot of what other people are also know our population will expand, future generations be able to just discovering — the world- and many of these newcomers will have see this country as the ancient class fly-fishing along the East no traditions in this land. Many of them aboriginals saw it, or as how I Walker River; sage grouse in will see this area as a dirt bike haven. A saw it on my first hunting trip the meadows, bighorn in the lot of our outback will suffer. Regardless in 1948?” crags, cougar and bear in the of what we do, scars they will impose. In 1844, while camped at forests; Clovis points dating Let’s protect at least this area, if nothing the foot of what are now the human habitation back at least more, from their thoughtless activities. South Pine Grove Hills, John 10,000 years; historical relics We need balance. Wilderness would C. Fremont’s team discovered Wovoka from the Comstock era; and provide that balance. ” 6 Friends of Nevada Wilderness Boots on the Ground: Volunteers Across Wild Nevada!

SHELDON NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE KEEPING TRAILS OPEN Sheldon Refuge: Time to Hike Your Wild Trails! Volunteers helped our seasonal field crew Getting Closer... maintain 32 miles of trails on the Austin- Tonopah Ranger District this summer, but we are especially proud of the work they accomplished on the North/South Twin Connector, on the southeast side of and the Toiyabes. This 15-mile loop hike through the is open and is an excellent choice for your next excursion in the heart of the . Friends’ crews also tackled sections of the Summit Trail in the Santa Rosa-Paradise Peak Wilderness that had become overgrown, or that had been devastated by the Hansen Fire in August. Our trails program would not be possible without the following funders: The Secure Rural Schools Resource Advisory Councils (RAC) of Nye and White Pine counties, the RAC of Humboldt county, the Nevada State Recreational Trails Program, and the National Forest Foundation. Thank you all! Uber-volunteer Chuck Thomas helps Friends’ Executive Director Shaaron get that pesky wire off. Photo: Graham Stafford

We’ve had to put the luau on hold, because wildfires interfered with our plans to pull the last of Sheldon’s internal fences in 2012. Over the last three years, dedicated volunteers and Friends’ seasonal crews removed roughly 168 miles of pasture fence on the Sheldon Refuge, left over from cattle grazing, which was removed from the Sheldon in 1994. With only about 7 miles to go, we were only a couple work- days from a big celebration. We’re planning the final fence-pull and big fun for next spring (before fire season!). Until then, pronghorn, sage grouse and people will enjoy freer, safer and more beautiful lands on the Sheldon. On September 27, 2012 the Fish & Wildlife Service signed the final Record of Decision for the Sheldon’s Comprehensive Conservation Plan, which guides long-term management of the refuge. The CCP directs the FWS to manage about 424,360 acres of the refuge to preserve their wilderness character. Friends applauds this decision, because keeping the habitat in a wild, natural state is a great thing for wildlife. Thanks to all our Volunteers clearing the Summit Trail for hikers, volunteers who have helped “rewild” Sheldon over the years! equestrians, sportsmen and you. Photos: Graham Stafford Friends of Nevada Wilderness 7

NATIONAL PUBLIC LANDS DAY AWARD-WINNING FRIENDS What do Pat Bruce and Chicken Curry Have in Common?

They’re both award winners! Friends’ collection of honors is growing. In May, the Bureau of Land Management awarded Pat Bruce, Stewardship Program Director, the prestigious Making A Difference National Volunteer Award. The Winnemucca BLM District BLM nominated Pat for his continued devotion to restoring and maintaining Nevada’s public lands through on- the-ground work with volunteers. “It’s all the work of the Volunteers installed a trailhead kiosk in Gold Butte. Photo: Kurt Kuznicki volunteers that make this possible,” said Pat. “I want to accept this award Volunteers Rocked on behalf of everyone who has volunteered in Nevada’s public lands.” National Public Lands Day From his many trips into the Black Rock Each year in September, land-management agencies across and the Sheldon, to the country invite citizens to celebrate our nation’s public the restoration of a lands through service and stewardship. This year, more than public-use cabin in 170,000 people like you participated in 2,100 clean-ups and Soldier Meadows restoration projects across the country . . . including a few in and his never-ending Nevada. stories, knowledge of On September 15, in the Santa Rosa Range, volunteers Nevada and scrumptious pulled dangerous barbed-wire fence and learned how to help recipes, Pat brings the Forest Service monitor rangeland developments. In the reward, learning and Conservation Lands in Black Rock Desert on September 22, good food to volunteers’ volunteers cleaned up the heavily impacted Trego Hot Springs experience. Thanks and and protected sensitive habitat from vehicles. Kids and families congratulations, Pat, for ventured into the beautiful Lavabeds area to monitor the health your wonderful hard Pat always cooks up something yummy of springs. work and leadership. for volunteers. Photo: Brian Beffort In Gold Butte on September 29, Friends volunteers joined Lush SNAP PARTNERS: On October 13, the Southern Nevada Cosmetics, the BLM, National Agency Partnership (SNAP — all of the agencies that manage Park Service, Backcountry federal lands in southern Nevada) awarded Friends the Partner Horsemen, Friends of Gold Sponsor Award for our work in organizing projects and Butte and off-road vehicle recruiting volunteers to care for southern Nevada’s wildlands. groups to plant native plants, Thank you, SNAP partners. It’s a labor of love, and we’re restore impacts, and repair signs honored to work with you to care for Nevada’s wild heritage. and kiosks. In Desert National Wildlife Refuge, volunteers DUTCH OVEN WINNERS: And congratulations to installed a post-and-cable fence Associate Director Brian Beffort, Stewardship Technician to prevent vehicle creep from a Renee Aldrich and volunteer Adam Willet for their first-place parking area into wildlife habitat. Dutch oven awards for Thai chicken curry, corn bread and Thanks for helping plant seed, All in all, a great service to pumpkin bread pudding, respectively. Maybe it’s getting time Tanner! Photo: Graham Stafford America the Beautiful. Thank you! for us to publish a Dutch-oven cookbook. 8 Friends of Nevada Wilderness

WIILDLAND INVENTORY

The Castle Rock area is one of the remote, wild jewels in central Nevada that deserves consideration for long-term protection. Photo: Kirk Peterson

Friends would like to thank our partners at the Nevada Wilderness Project for helping make these inventories successful. Evaluating wildlands, gathering stories By Kirk Peterson Battle Mountain District’s Resource Each crew member brought Inventory Crew Leader Management Plan, which will guide home stories and memories that how the BLM will manage these will stay with them for years. Now, From July through September 2012, lands for the next 10 to 20 years. Friends is busy compiling the data Friends sent two crews into the Julien, Scott, Grant, Bill and I into a report we plan to submit to ancient, multicolored mountains inventoried and evaluated more than the BLM this fall. Our goal is to of central Nevada’s BLM lands, half a million acres. When vehicles provide compelling data to ensure stretching between Highway 50 and reached the end of the track and the that a few key places should be Pahrump (yes, a big area!). Their crew continued on foot, the beauty managed to preserve the wilderness mission was to conduct wilderness and diversity, silence and solitude of characteristics of these remarkable inventories for consideration in the these places unfolded around them. lands into the future.

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write about a golden eagle that floated over me ... But I can no more do the ‘I eagle justice than I can describe in words what wilderness means to me.’

Julien Pellegrini, a member of our Field Inventory Crew, enjoys yet another moment of expansive solitude. Photo: Kirk Peterson Venturing into the Volcanic Hills Though the sun is fading behind the FIELD NOTES BY JULIEN I observe sage grouse scat around me. White Mountains to the west, the air PELLIGRINI Across the valley to the west, in the is holding heat like an oven. We set up foothills of the White Mountains, I camp on cobblestone pavement, remote trapped grouse with my father years and pristine, careful to keep disturbance think of an ancient lake large enough ago for a genetic study, in hopes of to a minimum. Here in the Volcanic to fill all of this valley and numerous saving the species from extinction. Hills on the north end of Fish Lake others besides. How can I put that memory down on a Valley in Esmeralda County, the ground We hike to the top of the Volcanic pad of paper? is rust red; bright emerald shrubs Hills one day. Though they appear Instead, I write about a golden eagle dot the landscape, set apart from one small by comparison to the surrounding that floated over me, while crawling up another as though part of an immense mountains, the view from the top the red canyon an hour previously. But garden. surprises me with its scale and sweep. I can no more do the eagle justice than Reptiles abound on this paved desert; A jar in a rock pile brings me out I can describe in words what wilderness I endeavor to catch a zebra-tailed lizard of my scenery-induced trance. Inside means to me. that first evening, but to no avail. The is a pad of paper and knife-sharpened To preserve this pin point on the map saline desert floor below indicates pencil, used by Alvin McClane, a from off-road vehicles, mines, and a dried inland sea. Its white surface legendary Nevada explorer, documenter other man-made disturbances is my demarcates itself from the surrounding of caves and archaeology, and hero of most fervent wish. We replaced the jar red desert and seems unworldly. In mine, to write on his experience here. and moved on, while a canyon wren a land scorched by heat, with air so Hallowed ground... We all take turns sang musical scales like a boy with a deprived of moisture it drains you writing. What should I write? That I am panpipe out of an ancient, long-lost and while you hike, it seems bizarre to moved by these places, by this place? forgotten fairy tale. 10 Friends of Nevada Wilderness $1 Million Who wouldn’t be smiling? From Page 1 “There are intangible and unquantifiable values in Gold Butte Days in Mesquite this as well,” Collins said. “Volunteer projects give folks an incentive to visit the refuge and learn about the wildlife and wilderness resources. This is important to our mission as an agency. I don’t know a better way to reach people. ” I “This shows what an impact people can have when they care,” said Friends’ Executive Director Shaaron Gold Butte Netherton. “Thanks to Friends of Nevada Wilderness the amazing volunteers to give their time and hard work, and to the Friends of Nevada Wilderness participated in the recent Gold wonderful donors who Butte Days Festival in Mesquite in October. support our programs, What a wonderful event with lots of friendly folks, local Nevada is far wilder vendors, community leaders, great entertainment, plenty of than it would be fabulous food and even 5K and half-marathon races for healthy otherwise. Thanks to outdoor fun. everyone who helps What brought everyone together on the streets of Mesquite? get this important work Well Gold Butte, of course. The festival was a celebration of a done!” special place whose time for national recognition and permanent The impact of this protection is overdue. great work can be Our volunteers enjoyed sharing stories with local folks about seen in the wild places a magical place that everyone cared deeply about. It seems that across Nevada that are a Gold Butte National Conservation Area with Wilderness has healthier, prettier and strong support from the citizens of Mesquite, and those folks easier for people to Thanks, Jeanette. The Bonanza Trail is showed their support by signing over 400 Protect Gold Butte better because of you. Photo: Jose Witt access and enjoy. postcards. Thank you to everyone who has swung a Pulaski, All of us in the Friends Family remain sincerely committed coiled barbed-wire, taken a GPS waypoint, written on a to see Gold Butte through to the finish line, and we know you clipboard, taken photos, hiked up a canyon to see what are too. So with all of this strong support, deep commitment and was up there, and donated to support out work. You are love for Gold Butte... who wouldn’t be smiling? proof to the world that caring and committed people can indeed make a difference. Thanks for keeping Nevada wild! Here’s to the next million! 2013 Wild Nevada Calendars Available now Southern Nevada From Page 1 impacts restored; 200 cubic yards of trash removed; 2,500 pounds of obsolete fence and water tanks removed; and 644 feet of new post-and-cable fencing installed—all to stop the spread of human impacts and restore nature to wild vigor. • We also provided wilderness education programming to 27 classrooms in the Las Vegas Valley, helping kids understand the value and beauty of their public lands beyond the Vegas sprawl. But we’re not done yet. As temperatures drop here in Order at www.NevadaWilderness.org, southern Nevada, we are gearing up for a busy winter by calling (775) 324-7667, and spring full of projects. Join us out in the fun! or use the coupon on page 11 Friends of Nevada Wilderness 11 Volunteers of the Year! ‘It has uncertainty and discovery, and it takes me to places I never would have gone otherwise.’ By Brian Beffort many hours helping us improve our data- sieve, looking for snails. ” collection protocol and teaching others “I’m partial to environmental causes.” Congratulations and thank how to monitor says Mike, who’s been a staple you to Dorothy Hudig and springs themselves. volunteer for years for Friends. Mike Thorson, Friends’ 2012 “I do it because “I like being outside, out in the Volunteers of the Year. it’s interesting, desert, away from civilization, Since Friends’ Citizen hard, it has the further the better. I also like Spring Monitoring program uncertainty and all the people I work with in began in 2011, Dorothy and discovery, and it this program. Mike Thorson have been at takes me to places “With spring monitoring, the heart of the program in I never would have it’s nice having something my the Black Rock Desert. As a gone otherwise,” own,” says Mike, “having a team, they have driven more say Dorothy. “I’m hand in shaping the program. than 5,000 miles and logged normally summit- It’s a lot of fun.” more than 500 hours hiking, oriented, and this Dorothy and Mike, thank you GPS-ing, and identifying and Dorothy, sifting for takes me in an Mike, enjoying the view for your service and leadership cataloging the plants, animals snails and shrimp. entirely different along the way. to Wild Nevada. When human and health of these remote water sources. direction…sometimes on my hands and cloning gets perfected, you’ll be at the Behind the scenes, they have also logged knees, skimming through the mud with a top of our list!

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UPCOMING TRIPS AND EVENTS

December 5. 6pm-10pm. THANK YOU! Friends’ Wild Winter Wingding. Join Friends as we celebrate our our extraordinary volunteers with an evening of entertainment, 2012 Award Winners! refreshments, silent auction, raffle and a lot of fun with great people who love Nevada. 6pm to 10pm at Cargo in CommRow, 255 N Virginia St., Reno.

To RSVP or sign up for alerts, send an email to [email protected], or call (775) 324-7667. For information on southern events and trips, call (702) 839-5569.

Updated schedules are posted at www.nevadawilderness.org

Photo: Kurt Kuznicki • Volunteers of the Year: Dorothy Hudig and Mike Thorson • Agency Partner of the Year: Southern Nevada Agency Volunteer for a day. Partnership (SNAP) • Agency Team Player, Individual: Sandi Gracia Make a difference • Corporate Partner of the Year: GSI Outdoors • Group Partner of the Year: Great Basin Institute that lasts a lifetime. • Youth Stewardship Award: Levi Smyth