by Katie Fite | Apr 8, 2025 | Pinyon Juniper | 0 Comments
Douglas Canyon – Ely BLM PJ Deforestation and Cow Project Expansion This vague project was planned under a NEPA non-analysis “DNA” tiered to a series of Ely BLM’s destructive deforestation-based Watershed EAs. The DNA treatments cut down, pile burn and...
by Katie Fite | Apr 8, 2025 | Pinyon Juniper, Uncategorized | 0 Comments
Egan Range-Ward Mountain Landscape Ely BLM Ely BLM has long been at the forefront in driving Pinyon Jays towards extinction. Vast areas of central Nevada were deforested for wood during the 1800s era mining boom and white settlement. The region ran on wood....
by Katie Fite | Apr 8, 2025 | Pinyon Juniper, Uncategorized | 0 Comments
Ely BLM Wilson Creek PJ Forest Chaining Area Ely BLM has long sought to wipe out the beautiful PJ forests in the Mountain Wilson landscape. 20 years ago, litigation limited that effort to some extent. But BLM came back with smaller project after smaller...
by Katie Fite | Apr 8, 2025 | Pinyon Juniper | 0 Comments
Ely BLM Long and Ruby Valley Pinyon-Juniper Deforestation, Sagebrush Eradication and Livestock Development Proposal Ely BLM’s Long and Ruby Valley Watershed project is one of a long series of large-scale deforestation, sagebrush habitat manipulation and livestock...
by Katie Fite | Apr 8, 2025 | Pinyon Juniper | 0 Comments
Owyhee BLM Juniper Mountain Old Growth Western Juniper Forest Destruction It’s hard to articulate just how sickening and vile Owyhee BLM’s purposeful destruction of an old growth juniper forest on Juniper Mountain in the Owyhee Canyonlands by the Oregon border was....
by Katie Fite | Apr 8, 2025 | Pinyon Juniper | 0 Comments
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 | Pinyon Juniper | 0 Comments
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 | Pinyon Juniper | 0 Comments
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 | Pinyon Juniper | 0 Comments
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 | Pinyon Juniper | 0 Comments
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...
