Coyote Crossing

Christmas Tree Pass

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In the Shoshone Range

One of my favorite photos of me ever. Taken about a dozen years ago by Sharon Leach as we hiked in the Shoshone Range, central Nevada.

There’s just something about pinyon and juniper that makes me utterly content. It might just be my favorite

Rock squirrel, rock art

At Grapevine Canyon, Newberry Mountains, … (continues)

New Nevada Wildlands Website

From Graham Stafford in Reno:

I have just designed and built a new website at http://www.nvdesertmtn.org.

Nevada is a large geographical state. Its the 7th largest and the 35th in population. I sometimes feel, because of the large distances

That was a good day

Photo by Sharon Leach, taken May 1996

We slept out on the open desert the night before, after driving from the Bay Area through Reno and up the east shore of Pyramid Lake. We took the road as far as the truck would let us. The four of us walked

Coyote-killing “tournament” in Fallon, NV

What is wrong with the state of Nevada this week? Why are some people there so goddamned afraid of coyotes that they’ll not only commit random killings for me to find on my birthday hike, but sponsor sociopathic “contests” to see who can commit

Identify this missing bird

Tracks found in dirt road in Joshua tree forest, southern Nevada, January 4. Can you identify them without clicking through to the Flickr site?

Update: obviously *I* couldn’t. The caption has been corrected.

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Dubai Buys Time for Ivanpah Valley

Near Primm, NV. If they ever get around to building the Ivanpah Airport — and who knows if they will, with Vegas’ economy still tanking — this will become satellite long-term parking or a Sbarros or something equally valuable.

Incidentally,

Good news for the Amargosa toad

Amargosa toad, FWS photo.

[From a press release sent along by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address), Center for Biological Diversity]

Amargosa Toad Takes Long-overdue Hop Toward Endangered Species Protections

LAS

Protect Gold Butte

Most of you have never heard of it, but northeast of Las Vegas, in one of the least-visited parts of the continental United States, a desert treasure in Nevada needs your support.

I visited Gold Butte for the first time in 1997. I was just

CBD takes on the “1,000-miles of ecocide” ORV race

Via Rob Mrowka at the Center for Biological Diversity, a reminder about the insanely destructive “[Killing] the Best In The Desert” race, and a way you can do something to stop it. Deadline for these letters is Friday, but it will only take a half

Keep ORVs out of NV wilderness areas

Yes, this is Nevada. Castle Lakes in the Ruby Mountains Wilderness.

From our friends at the Center for Biological Diversity. The link on “please submit your comments” goes to one of those automated letter-sending sites. It’ll take less than two

Mining Sacred Land

From Indianz:

A federal judge on Monday refused to grant a preliminary injunction against a gold mine in Nevada that would impact sacred Western Shoshone sites.

A group of tribal and environmental plaintiffs sued the Interior Department to block

Pictographs

At the Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area, just west of Las Vegas in the Spring Mountains. The origin and significance of these handprints is, so far as I can determine, unknown, but they were almost certainly made by the Southern Paiute

Wee Thump

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Wee Thump at DesertBlog

Larry Hogue was kind enough to invite me to post at DesertBlog, and I’ve put a post there describing the small wilderness area a few miles from my place in … (continues)