Breathe Easy

Last week, our champion, Harry Reid did a great thing to help ensure that Eastern Nevada not only remains wild, but that the air quality stays clean, and that Nevada will help the US move forward with clean energy by refusing to support several coal fire power plants in White Pine County. What does [...]

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Poking around Silver Peak

In Northern Nevada the name Silver Peak evokes images of the brewery in downtown Reno.  In other parts of the state people think of the mining town in Esmeralda County, few realize there is an actual range called the Silver Peak Range.  This past weekend Dr. Know and I went there for some last minute field [...]

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Letters from the Sage

The following is a letter from Art, a life long resident of Mason Valley, Nevada, and lover of what we are now calling the Wovoka Proposed Wilderness in the southern Pine Grove Range. For the past 30 years Art and his friend Steve have been hiking in this area. It is their backyard, their love, [...]

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Washoe County Open Space and Wilderness

Check out these photos of a Washoe County sunrise by Kurt Kuznicki over at Wild Washoe.  Our quality of life in Washoe County is a huge reason why our area is growing so much.  Right now there is an open space planning effort that the county is undertaking that you need to be a part [...]

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CentNev

My grandfather came from a different time. To him there was no more aesthetically pleasing form the land could take than a plowed field ready to be sown. He was a lover of forests and spoke often of the old days logging on the Pine Tree Express, with his brother in Washington. When you walk [...]

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A note from the New Guy

I wanted to take a moment to introduce myself to the wilderness fans that are clamoring to this blog. My name is John Tull, and I am now the Conservation Director for the Nevada Wilderness Project. I received my Ph.D. from the University of Nevada, Reno where I got to explore a great deal of [...]

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Wilderness Values Trip to Corn Creek

This past Sunday our volunteer Pauline led a group out to Corn Creek in Clark County. She writes:
We started out at about 17:40pm. The kids had a blast looking at goldfish, rabbits, cattails, and hearing the bullfrogs croak and groan. Though the frogs were in hiding, they would not give up looking for them.
The [...]

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