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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 [...]

Reminder: Visit Your Local Government This Week!

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  [...]

Time to Visit Your Local Government Entity

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 [...]

Call Your Representative Today to Support The Upper Las Vegas Wash National Monument

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 [...]

My, How Things Change

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 [...]

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 [...]

Tule Springs Movie Night

Oooo. Ned goes Neolithic.

Tule Springs Ice Age ParkNed Thomas For Mayor

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Mammoths Bring Out Big Gun

Advocates for turning the Northern Valley into something beside a parking lot surrounded by foreclosed houses discovered the proverbial 300 pound gorilla–or should I say: six ton mammoth riding an F-22–on their side of the debate Friday.

Representatives from Nellis Airforce Base were concerned that large scale development in the northern valley could interfere [...]

Meeting on Tule Springs and Sheepdip Parkway to Nowhere

There will be a meeting of the Protectors of Tule Springs on Weds., Oct. 10th 15th.

WHAT: Protectors of Tule Springs MeetingWHERE: Conference Room in the Sun City Aliante Community Center at 7390 Aliante Parkway, North Las Vegas, NVWHEN: Wednesday, October 10th 15th, 6:30pm

Seating is limited. Please RSVP to protectorsoftulesprings@gmail.com.

Agenda:

1. Maps of [...]