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The Nevada Appeal, the Silver States oldest continuously run newspaper, first published on May 16, 1865.

Kurt Englehart placed the needs of Nevadans as a top priority.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced the Dixie Valley toad will be listed as endangered and be provided permanent federal protections. The toad was protected under a rare emergency order in April, and those emergency protections expire Dec. 2.

RENO, Nev.— The Fallon Paiute-Shoshone Tribe and the Center for Biological Diversity filed a formal notice of intent today to sue the U.S. Bureau of Land Management to halt construction of the Dixie Meadows geothermal power plant. Federal wildlife managers say the plant poses a significant risk of extinction to the Dixie Valley toad.

The Dixie Valley toad lives in a 760 acres patch of wetlands fed by a hot spring that would be dried up by the geothermal project, a lawsuit alleges.

Our peoples have lived and thrived on these lands for more than 10,000 years. We have knowledge and expertise about how to steward these lands.

Conservationists and tribal leaders say the plants will destroy a sacred hot springs and could push a rare toad to the brink of extinction.

Conservationists and tribal leaders say the plants will destroy a sacred hot springs and could push a rare toad to the brink of extinction.

Conservationists and tribal leaders say the plants will destroy a sacred hot springs and could push a rare toad to the brink of extinction.

RENO, Nev. (AP) — Conservationists and tribal leaders are suing the U.S. government to try to block construction of two geothermal plants in northern Nevada’s high desert that they say