Group files for emergency protections for rare Nevada toad
The Center for Biological Diversity has filed an emergency petition with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for emergency protections for the rare Amargosa toad.
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The Center for Biological Diversity has filed an emergency petition with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for emergency protections for the rare Amargosa toad.
Center for Biological Diversity: Modern-Day Gold Rush Could Push Amargosa Toad to Extinction
70,000 Joshua Trees are threatened by a 16-square mile project called Sawtooth Solar, near Beatty, Nevada. This utility-scale solar project proposal is adjacent the Death Valley National Park, along the "Nevada Triangle" in a basin called Sarcobatus Flat. This project is just one of dozens being proposed as 9 million acres of public land are opened to solar development. Kevin Emmerich and Laura Cunningham of Basin and Range Watch are joined by filmmaker Justin McAffee in this third of the series Desert Apocalypse. They look at all the plant and animal life in these ecosystems that ar...
BEATTY — Nye County Clerk Mark Kampf says he will address county commissioners later this month about redistricting some voters into a new precinct.
Beatty’s voting precinct can only include voters living within the town’s legal boundary, the clerk says, but a few voters who live outside the limits have voted in past elections.