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Your online source for action, adventure and inspiration in the Wild Lands of Nevada.

WEE-thump. It’s a funny word. Or is it? It is a Paiute word meaning “ancient ones” and the namesake of a small wilderness near Searchlight, Nevada. The Weethump Wilderness is home to some of the oldest Joshua Trees in the Mojave Desert and is an example of how a small group of people in today’s world can preserve a piece of the ancient wilds for future generations. In 2002 It became the first citizen proposed wilderness on BLM land in the country to be enacted through grass-roots action. This blog is a chronicle of the Nevada Wilderness Projects efforts to replicate that success.