Officials: Error led to routing planned transmission line through national monument
by Nevada Independent | August 10, 2023
The potential destruction of ice age fossils in a Southern Nevada national monument by a proposed energy transmission line is due to a decade-old mapping error, according to federal employees, but at least one government accountability group isn’t buying it. “We are not aware of a ...
Conservationists, ranchers split on BLM’s Public Lands Rule. What does it mean for Nevada?
by Nevada Independent | June 12, 2023
Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, an organization dedicated to upholding environmental laws and duties, recommends the BLM be staffed at about 15,000 full-time employees; as of June 2022, the agency had less than 9,000. In 2010, the agency had 11,000 full-time employees ...
