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Poppies!!

The endangered Bear Poppies have been enjoying the Spring rains this year. I wandered out to the poppy zone with Julie DeStefano and other interested folk on May 2nd to view the last stages of the 2010 bloom.

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Time to Comment on BLM's Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement for Vegas Wash

BLM folk will be out and about next week soliciting comments on the draft of their Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement on the Upper Vegas Wash. Everyone is invited to attend the meeting and hopefully support either alternative A which sets aside 13,000 acres for stuff such as fossile bed preservation or the BLM’s preferred alternative [...]

Lots to Do This Week

This weeks’ events include:

Grand opening of Rory Reid for Governor Las Vegas office, Tue, Feb 16 5:00 PM – 7:00 PM, 4350 S. Arville Unit 26, Las Vegas NV 89103. Special meeting of city council looking into a proposal to allow fire department to transport folks to hospital in an emergency, Wednesday, February 17, [...]

BLM Draft Supplemental Envrionmental Impact Statement on North Vegas Wash In

From Jill DeStefano for Protectors of Tule Springs:

Well, the baby has arrived!!! Baby being the BLM supplemental environmental impact study DRAFT!

The actual document is 2″ thick and having just received the hard copy this AM, I have not read every word. However, the preferred alternative is 11,007 acres! Three [...]

Northern Vegas Wash National Park Proposal Passes Las Vegas and North Las Vegas Councils

This just in from the Protectors of Tule Springs:

HISTORY HAS BEEN MADE!!!!

Despite the lack of press coverage (more to come this weekend, I think), the Protectors of Tule Springs, along with other coalition groups has done what everyone told me was impossible 3 years ago.

The cities of Las Vegas and [...]