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There will be a Bear Poppy walk on Sunday May 2nd. Detail courtesy of Julie DeStefano:
The bearpoppies are in full bloom and beautiful this year. I have several requests for a walk, so on Sunday May 2nd at 11am we will meet at Aliante Parkway and Grand Teton. Park cars across street by [...]
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 B [...]
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 4:30 [...]
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 the [...]
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 Protectors [...]
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 North Las Vegas voted last night [...]
Just a follow up on a post from last week: Clark County, the City of Las Vegas, and North Las Vegas are voting on resolutions to make the upper Las Vegas Wash into an Urban National Park. Here are the meeting times again:
November 17th Clark County Commission 10am 500
S. Grand Central Parkway 455-0000 (Take I-15 south, [...]
This just in from the Protectors of Tule Springs:
On November 17th and 18th, an unprecedented
event will take place. The Clark County Commission, the City of Las
Vegas, and the City of North Las Vegas will all be placing a RESOLUTION
on their agendas which will read in part:
This is a resolution supporting the designation
of an area known as [...]
From the Protectors of Tule Springs:
Thank
you, thank you to everyone who wrote or called our representatives
about National Monument status for the Upper Las Vegas Wash, (Tule
Springs).
I know many of you felt that the
delegations call attendants had no idea what we were calling about, but
I assure you by the end of the day when I called at [...]
Nothing shifts faster than a political wind.
The Las Vegas Sun had a fair chunk of its Sunday offering filled up with the prospect that grounds filled with fossils in northern Nor'Town may be protected as a national monument under the National Park Service.
One might wonder why Greenspun, Inc., would be so excited. After all, if you [...]
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