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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, 2010, at [...]

Thank the Recession for Upper Las Vegas Wash National Monument

The Las Vegas Sun apparently found a staffer still on the payroll to pen a piece about the BLM’s generally favorable position on the proposed Upper Las Vegas Wash national monument. (Sun)

One thing that strikes me about the article is how all the cooperation between all the various government agencies  would not have happened if [...]

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 years ago, when [...]

What A Nice Letter From Anita Wood…

Nobody sends me nice letters like the one Jill Stephano, of the Protectors of Tule Springs, got from Councilperson Candidate Anita Wood.

It's also nice to see an actual issue being discussed. The Mayor's race abandoned that idea way before Skippy stole the race.

You'll find a philosophy a bit different philosophy from the one we heard [...]

Mammoths in Nor’Town

Now, this is way cool, and everybody in North Las Vegas should think so, too.

There were mammoths in North Las Vegas, and there’s a whole bunch of bones to prove it. (Sun,KLAS,LVCL)

Forget the fake dinosaurs in the parks, the Las Vegas Wash has got the real thing.

However, as we well know, developers can’t look at [...]