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Bear Poppy – Mammoth Walks

From Jill DeStefano. A fine way to distract your attention from the sad mayoral election… It is that time of year again! I have scheduled two walks (2 miles over rough desert terrain) out to the bearpoppy and old mammoth fossil site in the Tule Springs Wash area (soon to be the Tule Springs Fossil [...]

Bear Poppy and Mammoth Walks

From the Protectors of Tule Springs:

HI everyone: It is that time of year and bearpoppies are blooming!! I am scheduling TWO walks. One on Saturday April 14th and the other on the 21st. We will meet at 8:30AM!! Limit of 25 people per walk and NO children under the age of 10 please. (this [...]

North Las Vegas Urinates on Clark County, Democracy, Self

Anywhere but Norftown and you’d take a headline like the above as a mere metaphor. Not here.

Quite literally the city of North Las Vegas has decided to urinate on Clark County and the rest of Vegas Valley. It has started to release it’s lightly treated pee-water from it’s brand-new pee-water recycling plant into a [...]

Call For Nor’Town Junior Woodchuck Fossil Specialists

From the Protectors of Tule Springs:

Upper Las Vegas Wash Paleontological Resources Site Stewardship Program

Become a Paleontological Site Steward and volunteer to help protect fossil resources! Learn about preservation laws, local paleontology, and how to steward a region for land agencies. Course:Site Stewardship Paleontology Training

Place:BLM Las Vegas Field Office Conference Room 4701 [...]

Tooth Found in Nor’Town

More excited than dentists at a incisor convention, Vegas bigwigs hailed the extraction of a Columbian Mammoth tusk from the dessicated gums of North Las Vegas this week. (RJ,Sun).

No news yet if the newly Republicanized Congress will move to shut down attempts to make the area from which the elephantine molar was pulled into [...]

Protectors of Tule Springs Meeting Oct. 28

From POTS: HI EVERYONE!!!

I’m sure you have all seen some of the latest press coverage regarding the delay in creating the Tule Springs Fossil Beds National Monument!!

Since we have not had an informational meeting since February it is about time to get everyone updated. So…..

WHEN: THURSDAY, OCTOBER 28TH 7-8:30PM

WHERE: SUN CITY [...]

Mammoths in the News!

Couple of stories about NVEnergy’s plan to string wire all over Nor’Town showed up this week.

In the Las Vegas Review Journal, we learn that the power company may not really want to start drilling new holes out in the North Wash. They’ll run into a ton of fossils and have to stop digging every [...]

City Authorizes City Attorney to Intervene in Transmission Line Decisions

The City Council has unanimously authorized the acting city attorney to take part in the decision-making process concerning NVEnergy’s goofy idea to place a new set of powerlines across the area of the proposes fossil bed national monument. (CNLV)

The Sun and the Review Journal report that Mayor Shari Buck has been in contact the [...]

Protest the Powerlines!!

The Protectors of Tule Springs would like folks to show up to the September 1st meeting of the North Las Vegas City Council to weigh in on NVEnergy’s proposal to add another power line corridor through the area for the proposed fossil beds national monument: We really need you! Protect the Upper Las Vegas Wash [...]

Nevermind Sludge Cakes

Others have talking points, quick hits, or gleanettes. Nor’Towners are stuck with Sludge Cakes!

Looks the plan by NVEnergy to build another set of power transmission lines near the proposed Ice Age Park has blown a fuse. News came out Friday that the Paiute tribe has decided to allow power lines to pass through their [...]