by Katie Fite | Apr 8, 2025
Sheldon National Wildlife Refuge Western Juniper Habitat Destruction – Clearcutting and Pile Burning No place is safe from widespread destruction of mature and old growth western junipers, and the nesting habitat they provide for migratory birds ranging from...
by Katie Fite | Apr 8, 2025
Included below is an ACEC proposal submitted to Elko BLM in 2006 for the Spruce Valley landscape. Regrettably, Elko BLM proceeded to ignore every part of the proposal, tear up Pygmy Rabbit habitat, destroy the Ferruginous Hawk habitat, by churning out a series...
by Katie Fite | Apr 8, 2025
This illustrates the multitude of PJ killing projects one encounters when driving back roads in Nevada done under a series of CXs (mere checklists with no hard look analysis) or a skeletal EA NEPA review. It’s impossible to keep track of all the agency deforestation...
by Katie Fite | Apr 8, 2025
Nearly the entire Alder Creek allotment in the Stinkingwater Mountains is very rugged, rocky and/or steep with impediments to cattle use. Past BLM deforestation juniper and sage “treatments” have already caused cheatgrass and medusahead expansion. BLM’s older projects...
by Katie Fite | Apr 7, 2025
Bodie Hills Region Our heart breaks for the beautiful Pinyon-Juniper forests in the Bodie region of the California-Nevada border, an area home to the Threatened Bi-state Sage-grouse. Pinyon Jay habitat here where we’ve observed flocks filtering into pinyon pine...
