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Don’t Gamble On Gold Butte
This picture was from our recent Gold Butte Weekend BBQ with the theme – “Don’t Gamble on Gold Butte”. While enjoying the great food, beer, and company, we took a few minutes to discuss a recent report from Campaign for America’s Wilderness that highlights Gold Butte as one of the most threatened areas in the […]
Adventures in Gold Butte ~ Past and Present
The wildflowers are blooming, the yuccas flowering, and the weather is ideal for exploring Gold Butte. Below is a report from a past trip and this coming weekend of April 5-6th, we are hosting a Gold Butte Weekend with our slogan being “Don’t Gamble On Gold Butte”. Come celebrate the Nevada Wilderness Coalition’s […]
Welcome Melisa and Emily!
Please join us in welcoming two new field organizers, Melisa Stodieck and Emily Southard that will be working on grassroots organizing for Gold Butte in Las Vegas for the months of March and April. They both come our way through Green Corps, a field school for environmental organizing.
Melisa Stodieck, a Minnesota native, grew up in […]
Soaking up the Winter Sun in Sloan Canyon
On Saturday, January 26th Nick Dobric and Bill James of the Nevada Wilderness Project led a group of 11 hikers from both NWP and Meetup.com through the beautiful rugged desert landscape of Sloan Canyon National Conservation Area/North McCullough Wilderness, approximately 20 miles south of Las Vegas. As we approached the hiking area by vehicle […]
People Speak Up for the Desert Refuge
On Thursday, January 17th the Department of Energy held a public hearing in Las Vegas to hear peoples comments on the massive proposed energy corridors across the Western US that impact some of our most important public lands and wildlife habitat: wildlife refuges, wilderness and wilderness study areas, and Forest Service roadless areas.
The turnout was […]
