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The U.S Fish and Wildlife Service listed groundwater “reduction and manipulation” within the central Amargosa Desert as a major threat to the Ash Meadows Amargosa pupfish due to the level
Sitting right on the border of Ash Meadows National Wildlife Refuge is a proposed exploratory drilling project that many fear would devastate the desert oasis and those fears have now been formalized in a letter from Nye County to the Bureau of Land Management.
Federal land managers have pulled their approval for a controversial lithium exploration project less than a mile from a treasured wetland habitat home to a trove of species found nowhere else in the world.
Late Wednesday, the Bureau of Land Management admitted the agency erred when they approved an exploratory mineral drilling operation near the Ash Meadows National Wildlife Refuge, a critical wetland habitat in the Amargosa Desert 90 miles northwest of Las Vegas, without consulting other relevant agencies.
Environmental groups say they have received mixed messages from the BLM and the agency’s attorneys over the project’s status.