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Breaking News New Wilderness for Nevada Frontlines 2 FRIENDS of Nevada’s Last Roadless Areas 3 Boots on the Ground 4-5 NEVADA Award-Winning Stewards 6 Sage-Grouse Campaign Update 8 INSIDE WILDERNESS 30th Anniversary Donors 10 WINTER/SPRING 2014-15 WWW.NEVADAWILDERNESS.ORG BREAKING NEWS NEW WILDERNESS FOR NEVADA: WOVOKA AND PINE FOREST evada proudly welcomes two new wilderness areas: the Pine Forest Range Wilderness in Humboldt County and Wovoka Wilderness in Nthe South Pine Grove Range in Lyon County. After many years of Friends of Nevada Wilderness working with local governments, recreationists, ranchers and sportsmen, two locally supported wilderness areas are now a reality. In mid December, Congress passed a package of public lands bill as part of the National Defense Authorization Act which created the 26,000-acre Pine Forest Range Wilderness and the 49,000-acre Wovoka Wilderness. An additional 23,000 acres were protected from mining and leasing near Pine Forest Range Wilderness: An anglers paradise! Photo by Brian Beffort Wovoka Wilderness, bringing total protection to this area to over 72,000 acres. In retrospect, the years of meetings, tours, and pouring over of maps to get agreements was the easy part. The challenge came when the republican chair of the House Natural Resources Committee, Doc Hastings (R-WA), insisted Continued on Page 2 Brian Beffort Brian Beffort Brian Beffort Chairman of Friends of Nevada Wilderness’ Board of Catching their first fish in the Pine Forest Range The Pine Forest Range and Wovoka Directors, Roger Scholl, scopes out Wovoka Wilderness Wilderness. Wilderness areas offer permanent protection for wildlife. 2 FRIENDS OF NEVADA WILDERNESS OUR MISSION Friends of Nevada Wilderness is dedicated to preserving all FRONTLINES qualified Nevada public lands By Shaaron Netherton / Executive Director as wilderness, protecting all present and potential wilderness from ongoing threats, educating hat a We will need all those inspired the public about the values of — year defenders because there are some serious and need for — wilderness, and 2014 has challenges ahead, including an escalating improving the management and W restoration of wild lands. been! We end the threat to dismantle our national public year welcoming lands, including our wilderness study STAFF our new Pine areas. These public lands, held in trust by Shaaron Netherton Forest Range each and every one of us, are a precious Executive Director [email protected] and Wovoka national treasure. As the Nevada Kurt Kuznicki Wilderness areas. legislature takes up efforts to gut our Associate Director While the package public lands, I hope you will stand up [email protected] of public lands with me to fight back and make it clear Pat Bruce had controversial aspects that Friends that Nevadans want to keep our public Stewardship Program Director [email protected] of Nevada Wilderness did not support, lands PUBLIC, and not be sold off for we are appreciative that all the work our development or to pay government Jose Witt Southern Nevada Manager supporters did over the years on protecting debts. [email protected] these deserving areas has paid off. We also On the positive side, we are making Renee Aldrich celebrated a convergence of Wilderness great strides working across the state on Stewardship Program Mgr. anniversaries: the Wilderness Act at 50 and [email protected] our bi-partisan Sage-Grouse Wilderness Friends of Nevada Wilderness at 30. We’ve Jesy Simons Campaign that will protect beautiful So. Nevada Outreach Tech. celebrated the past and looked hard into wilderness while keeping development [email protected] what the next 50 years could bring for wild from further fragmenting and destroying Darcy Shepard Nevada. sage-grouse habitat. 2015 is shaping up Director of Finance and HR [email protected] The future is, of course, in the hands of to be an especially important year for the next generation of wilderness stewards wilderness in Nevada and I challenge Katie Sanchez Membership Coordinator who will defend and care for our existing you all to make a New Year’s Resolution [email protected] wilderness and work across political to make saving Nevada’s Wilderness Kirk Peterson boundaries to protect the wild Nevada we a top priority (after shedding a few of Inventory Coordinator all love. That next generation has some those holiday pounds). Seriously, we [email protected] great mentors to give them both the skills need all hands on deck in 2015 and there Shevawn Von Tobel Outreach/Comms. Mgr. and inspiration to carry on and we honored will be many ways you can help make [email protected] a number of those special people at our a difference: letter writing, attending Jake Kastner Wilderness Wingding on December 5th. To meetings, volunteering on the ground In-House GIS/Cartographer find out who, check out page 6! and making a special financial donation. [email protected] Mike Rowan Grants Manager [email protected] Connie Howard Fundraising/Development Wovoka and Pine Forest Continued from Page 1 [email protected] on inserting wilderness damaging language into the bills that had been carefully Minas Mkhitarian So. Nevada Stewardship Tech worked out and supported fully by Nevadans. We appreciate the work done by the [email protected] Nevada congressional delegation to strip out that “poison pill” language and get them BOARD OF DIRECTORS back closer to the original bills that were introduced. Roger Scholl, State Chair Hermi Hiatt, Southern Vice-Chair As with nearly every wilderness area designated, there is a champion without whose Karen Boeger, Rural Vice-Chair labor of love wilderness would not be possible. For Wovoka, Steve Pellegrini and Art Larry Dwyer, Treasurer Shipley made it happen. The Pine Forest Range was possible because of steadfast work Meghan Wolf, Secretary Marge Sill of Jim Jeffress with Trout Unlimited. Friends of Nevada Wilderness raises a glass to John Hiatt toast these individuals and honor their dedication. Roberta Moore Bart Patterson Tom Myers FRIENDS OF NEVADA WILDERNESS 3 Speak Up For Nevada’s Roadless Areas These plans will zone our public lands and decide what gets developed and what gets protected. Our past inventory crew findings have been submitted to appropriate BLM District Offices as part of the RMP process. The best way to preserve the ecological integrity of Nevada’s last wild lands is to keep these roadless corridors intact and your comments and participation in this process are needed! The BLM needs to hear from you to help safeguard our desert landscapes. Now is the time to have your voice heard for the future of Nevada’s public lands – whether you camp, hike, fish, or hunt, you need to speak up for these threatened wild areas that carry prime opportunities for Virgin Peak needs your comments to keep it wild. PHOTO: KURT KUZNICKI solitude, primitive recreation and priceless habitat he BLM is releasing Resource Management Plans for wildlife. (RMPs) which will hold the future of how our public Check our website, e-mail shevawn@ Tlands in Nevada are managed, including the last nevadawilderness.org, or call the office at 775-324- vestiges of our wild tracts of land. 7667 to learn how you can make your voice heard. Goldilocks: Our Feathered Friend: evada’s wild lands offer outstanding opportunities Nfor adventure and surprising encounters with nature and we look for staff who can meet those challenges of the Nevada backcountry. In June, while our intrepid two-person wilderness inventory crew were adventuring in the Goshute Canyon Range in eastern Nevada, they discovered a golden eagle hopelessly trapped in a stock tank. Immediately Julien Pellegrini - an expert falconer - jumped into action to save this magnificent raptor. Crew member Will Boyer documented the rescue and produced a compelling short film of the encounter. Will’s film, Festival in Las Vegas on November 13th of this year and is now “Goldilocks: Our Feathered Friend” available for viewing on our YouTube page: premiered at the Wild and Scenic Film www.youtube.com/user/NevadaWild WANT TO BE noTIFIED OF UPCominG EMPLOYMENT OPPorTuniTIES LIKE our SEAsonAL inVENTorY CREws? SIGN UP TO BE on our E-MAIL NEwsLETTER LisT! VisiT www.NEVADAwiLDErnEss.orG/siGN_UP_TO_GET_UPDATES 4 FRIENDS OF NEVADA WILDERNESS BOOTS ON THE GROUND: Making a Difference Across Wild Nevada! NATIONAL PUBLIC LANDS DAY STEWARDSHIP CHALLENGE eptember 27th years ago, in celebration of marked National the 40th anniversary of the SPublic Lands Day and 10 Wilderness Act, the Forest Service Nevada volunteers joined issued a Stewardship Challenge, calling for the nation in service to our all Wilderness areas in the National Forest public lands System to meet baseline management standards by 2014. In response to the Northern Nevada challenge, the National Forest Foundation volunteers spent the (NFF), the weekend in the Pine Forest official non- Range. Amidst a stunning profit partner backdrop of aspens, of the Forest volunteers rehabilitated the Service, has trail to Blue Lakes, limbed Families pitch in for the Pine Forest Range Wilderness provided during NPLD. PHOTO: RICHIE BEDNARSKI back the road, installed matching Jose Witt and painted a new sign, Our Southern Nevada grants to and cleaned the bathrooms. This volunteers split to cover three non-profit popular recreational spot has different public lands sites partners been given a much needed public in Clark County – Rainbow like Friends lands make-over which will be Mountain Wilderness, the of Nevada enjoyed by hikers, hunters, and National Wildlife Desert Refuge, Wilderness to fishermen for years to come. and Mt. Charleston Wilderness help National where volunteers re-naturalized Forest a wilderness trespass, spread Wilderness 75 pounds of native seed to Areas. Hiking in a new Mt. Charleston sign. re-naturalize an old pasture, and installed drainage dips. Over the years, we have been able to Volunteers from MGM Resorts, leverage these funds to make a real on-the- REI, Go Mt.
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