Welcome to Mineral County

What do mushroom clouds and wilderness have in common? Not much in most places, but in Mineral County they could potentially share a boundary.

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Skip Arrives

Skip Yowell, the man behind JanSport, stopped by our office today. Well, not exactly. But he did send a bobblehead doll of himself to our co-worker. We think its great that Skip is interested in our work and are excited to incorporate him into every aspect of what we do here at NWP. Stay tuned [...]

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Luke and Sparky’s Excellent Sweetwater Adventure

Posted by Redbeard as it was retold to him by our friends Dan and Karen.
Luke and Sparky the burros get easily bored with their domesticated life on 70 acres in the Pah Rah Mountains. In mid-July, they put their hooves down and demanded that their gray-haired geezer guardians, Dan and Karen, get them out into [...]

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Summer weekend in the Schells

When my buddy from the Midwest said he was coming West to visit for a few days I had the problem of where to take him. Some problem right? A few hour drive in every direction from Las Vegas leads to a fantastic wild destination. Well I made the executive decision to head up to [...]

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10 ?

In a sense, county commissioners and state legislatures that refuse to adopt land use planning that promote urban growth boundaries are putting the public at risk. They are creating conditions that will, over time, make it more dangerous for everyone, increase taxes or reduce services as more money is diverted to fight fires that, under other circumstances, would not be fought at all. If you care about saving tax dollars, saving lives, and preserving natural landscapes, then you have to get serious about land use planning and zoning.

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Pinyon-Juniper in the Great Basin

By Dr. Know
Many of you have probably heard people talk about the “P-J Community” in reference to the dominant vegetation in the mountainous Great Basin. P-J refers to the pinyon-juniper complex of tree species that is common at mid and upper elevations throughout Nevada’s mountain ranges, typically from around 5,250 feet up to about 8,000 [...]

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