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Keeping Washoe Wild Frontlines 2 Spring Breakers Defend the Desert 3 WSAs Under Threat & Wall Canyon 4-5 Desert Refuge Updates 6 Wildlife & Mt. Charleston 7 INSIDE Stewardship & Public Lands Defense 8-9 Washoe Cont’d & Who’s New at FNW 10-11 SPRING/SUMMER 2018 NEVADAWILDERNESS.ORG KEEPING WASHOE WILD ashoe County is blessed with an abundance of public lands that provide sweeping vistas, expansive sagebrush seas, andW healthy populations of pronghorn, bighorn sheep, numerous reptiles, song birds and a stronghold for the Greater Sage-Grouse. In this wild region stretching north of Pyramid Lake to the Oregon border, the roads are dirt, there is little cell phone coverage, and nature rules. Unfortunately, the Washoe County Commissioners seem more interested in development than conservation and they are proposing to eliminate protections that have been in place since 1980 for many of these wild places. Their proposal to strip protections for 62% of our county’s Wilderness Study Areas is appalling. Fortunately during the public hearings held April 24th and 26th, your voices were heard loud and clear standing up for Wilderness and open space. The need for Wilderness - protected lands where the forces of nature are allowed the opportunity to operate, uninhibited from human interference – becomes more and more pressing as the population of the Truckee Meadows swells. Our quality of life, including a broad range of outdoor recreation opportunities and beautiful backcountry are what makes living in Washoe County special. Friends of Nevada Wilderness has been invested in working alongside local legislators and various stakeholders to help find a balance Continued on Page 10 A storm rolls in over Massacre Rim Wilderness Study Area. Photo by Kirk Peterson. 2 FRIENDS OF NEVADA WILDERNESS STAFF Shaaron Netherton RONTLINES Executive Director F By Shaaron Netherton / Executive Director Kurt Kuznicki Associate Director e need with different versions of public land Pat Bruce your voices bill proposals that would offer up more Stewardship Program Director Wnow more than public lands for sale and development Darcy Shepard ever to stand up while also looking at conservation. Public Director of Finance and for public lands lands bills for Pershing and Douglas Human Resources and Wilderness. counties are also moving. We MUST Jose Witt I can’t thank stay vigilant and fight for Wilderness. Southern Nevada Director you all enough Nora Kaufmann for your calls, While the public lands bills could offer No. Nevada Stewardship letters, emails some Wilderness protection, Senator Dean Manager and in-person Heller’s “get rid of Wilderness Study Grace Larsen defense of our Areas” bill, if passed, would eliminate So. Nevada Stewardship nearly a million acres of protected Manager public lands early this year. You were there in southern Nevada pushing back on wildlands. We would lose places like the Dan Alvey the military’s proposal to take over more Park Range, Owyhee Canyon, Morey and Membership and Design Goshute Peak Wilderness Study Areas. Coordinator of the Desert National Wildlife Refuge. You were there telling Washoe County Shi-Lynn Campbell Don’t give up! In Nevada especially, Commissioners not to get rid of our Communications and Media your voices will be heard and we will Coordinator public lands and Wilderness Study Areas. make a difference but only if we reach Chris Cutshaw out, work together and stay focused. No. Nevada Stewardship Nevada’s public lands and wild places are Coordinator front and center this year with numerous That said, get out and visit these areas at risk and think about what Wilderness Jake Kastner bills or county proposals that could make or GIS/Monitoring Coordinator break Wilderness. Both the Clark and Washoe and public lands mean to you and to our quality of life here in the Silver State. Ashlyn Moreno County Commissioners are wrestling Communications and Operations Coordinator Kirk Peterson HAARON ETHERTON AND ARGE ILL Inventory Coordinator S N M S : Connie Howard ENO EOPLE ONOREES Development ‘R P ’ H Pam duPre Campaign he City of Reno is celebrating its 150th anniversary, and honoring 150 people CONTACT US whoT made The Biggest Little City the Box 9754 Reno, NV 89507 community it is today. We are proud to announce two of those people are Shaaron (775) 324-7667 Netherton, Executive Director of Friends BOARD OF of Nevada Wilderness, and the late Marge Sill, founding board member of Friends DIRECTORS and the Mother of Nevada Wilderness. Roger Scholl, State Chair Shaaron has served as Executive Director Hermi Hiatt, Vice-Chair for Friends of Nevada Wilderness since Larry Dwyer, Treasurer July 2000, and her 22 years of public land Marge Sill (Left) and Shaaron Netherton (Right). Michelle Napoli, Secretary management experience in the BLM with Karen Boeger 10 years in Nevada working specifically the original 1964 Wilderness Act, Louis Bubala in the BLM’s Wilderness program give and didn’t stop fighting for our wild Tim Buchanan her a level of expertise that benefits not places until she passed away in 2016. John Hiatt only Friends of Nevada Wilderness, but public lands lovers across America. Through hard work and perseverance, these Roberta Moore two women not only built an organization, Tom Myers Marge worked tirelessly in her younger they built a movement and a community Eric Roberts years to ensure Nevada’s Wilderness that has led to the protection of over 3.4 Meghan Wolf jewel Jarbidge was designated with million acres of Wilderness in Nevada. FRIENDS OF NEVADA WILDERNESS 3 SPRING BREAKERS BECOME DESERT DEFENDERS Our Alternative Spring Break students pose in front of the beautiful Sheep Range, after a week of hard work restoring America’s public lands in southern Nevada. Photo by Dan Alvey. evada’s beautiful backcountry importance of advocating for our when it comes to funding important won out over beachside public lands like the Desert Refuge, projects like Alternative Spring Nmargaritas for 22 college students with guest speakers drawing the Break, which has allowed us to who spent their spring break week connection between volunteering provide more than 100 students volunteering on our public lands. for on-the-ground restoration efforts with an experience of a lifetime Friends of Nevada Wilderness was and being a public lands advocate. and help them become our future honored to host Alternative Spring The volunteers learned that caring public land stewards. Thank you, Break for the eight consecutive year, for the land goes hand-in-hand Barrick, for your generous support! helping students get in touch with with speaking up for the land. nature by doing restoration projects and learning about conservation. Peter Sbraccia, a senior majoring in Geology at UNLV and a multi-year Daily restoration trips included Alternative Spring Break attendee, projects in the Arrow Canyon loves working on stewardship Wilderness, Pahranagat National projects that keep public land Wildlife Refuge, and the Desert protected. “That first trip was my Student volunteer Kim poses with tree cages National Wildlife Refuge, where first ever stewardship experience, installed in the Pahranagat Refuge. Photo by volunteers built a barrier at the and now I do them all the time,” Dan Alvey. trailhead to the Desert Dunes area said Peter. “This was a good way to prevent illegal off-roading in the for me to start getting involved.” sensitive area. The group camped out along the beach of Upper We would like to thank Barrick, who Pahranagat Lake and attendees has sponsored our Alternative Spring were treated to delicious cowboy Break event for the last four years. cooking each evening, courtesy of Friends relies on solid partnerships volunteer chef Barry Chapman. to complete our mission of protecting Nevada’s public lands and preserving Student volunteer Netta helps errect a barrier Throughout the week, student them for future generations. Barrick to protect the Desert Dunes in the Desert volunteers also heard about the has been an incredible partner Refuge. Photo by Dan Alvey. 4 FRIENDS OF NEVADA WILDERNESS WILDERNESS STUDY AREAS UNDER SIEGE enator Dean Heller is launching Wilderness Study Areas are the would be scheduled for release in 2-5 an attack on Nevada’s Wilderness wildest, most remote and often some years if Congress doesn’t designate StudyS Areas (WSAs) and is planning of the most beautiful land managed them as Wilderness before then. on introducing legislation soon. This by the BLM in Nevada. They are truly year Senator Heller has been actively the best of the best, and the BLM was After the BLM initially inventoried trying to get rural counties in Nevada directed to manage these areas to and designated Nevada’s WSAs to pass resolutions that will formally protect their Wilderness values until around 1980, they conducted a ask him to get rid of Wilderness Congress determined whether or study and analysis that weighed Study Areas in their counties. Heller not to designate them as Wilderness. the Wilderness values against other is telling those counties that he has Following direction by Congress, more development values. Using support from Secretary Ryan Zinke, the BLM identified about 100 WSAs this information, the BLM made that they have an ally in the White in Nevada by 1980, all of which recommendations to Congress on House and that the Republican had outstanding Wilderness values. which WSAs - or portions of WSAs chair of the Energy and Natural Over the years, some of these areas - were “suitable or non-suitable” for Resources Committee will ensure have been designated as Wilderness. Wilderness. In the 1980’s the BLM the bill gets a hearing. So far the may have felt that other potential Senator has pushed for and received Nevada has 63 Wilderness Study development values outweighed resolutions or letters of support Areas remaining, totalling the Wilderness values in certain from Elko, Nye, Lander, Mineral, 2.5 million acres.
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