Go to: Conservation Home Page Great Basin Group Web Links How to Contact Officials Do you have any comments/suggestions about this web site, or questions about our conservation work Click here to email the conservation chair!		Issue Where Priority Contacts Actions Outcome Tahoe Meadows Motorized Recreation Tahoe Meadows off Mt. Rose Hwy. 3 Gail Ferrill Snowmobile recreation still allowed in portions of Tahoe Meadows.  The purchase of Incline Lake property by USFS may allow this issue to be revisited.   Truckee Meadows Flood Coalition Truckee River flood plain in Reno-Sparks area 2 Dennis Ghiglieri This is now in an implementation stage and awaits EIS  from the Corp of Engineers.  Some issues remain however.   Public Lands Bills Pershing, Washoe, Lyon, Carson City, and other northern Nevada counties 2 Rose Strickland Reid and Ensign wish to push lands bills similar to the most recent White Pine Co. bill for remainder of Nevada counties.  Public input will be needed to attain conservation objectives.   Walker Lake near Hawthorne Nevada 2 Rose Strickland Ad hoc deliberative body has disintegrated.  Hawthorne interests may seek judicial remedy to preserve Walker Lake.  Walker River basin water is overallocated.   Peavine Mt. just outside Reno -- mostly USFS lands 2   possible annexation of inholding properties on Peavine by city of Reno   Water transfers Pershing Co. to Fernley 1 Dennis Ghiglieri Rose Strickland Permits have been filed to pump and transfer over 20,000 acre-ft of water from Granite Springs Valley to Fernley.   Sand Mt. Blue Butterfly Sand Mt., Churchill Co. 3 David von Seggern The BLM has been forced to consider putting the blue butterfly, which exists only in this location, on its endangered species list.  Issue on hold until they make a decision.   Trapping near established trails in and around Reno 3 Carol Tresner Carol Tresner has initiated action with NDOW and is looking for an advocate on county commission   regional water planning Reno, Sparks,and Washoe Co. 2 Dennis Ghiglieri Rose Strickland a bill is in committee in Nevada legislature to create a super water authority for Truckee Meadows area to seek further supplies   open spaces and greenways Reno, Sparks, and Washoe Co 2 Valerie Anderson Tina Nappe all three government entities have open space plans in various stages.  Not coordinated and little or no actual funding to realize many points of the plans.   N. Washoe Lake Project (USFS) west of Washoe Lake to the crest of Sierras on east side of Lake Tahoe 3 Dennis Ghiglieri Marge Sill Needs continual vigilance to make sure it’s done right.  New forest management plans do not need NEPA review.   Virginia Mtns. access points on south and east side of mountains 2 Holly Coughlin Need to remind BLM periodically of the off-road vehicle abuse.  Regular cleanups needed.     Toiyabe-Humboldt Forest Plan revision Toiyabe-Humboldt National Forest 2 Marge Sill The USFS has undertaken to revise the management plan for the T-H national forest.  This is not a NEPA process, and has no normal public input.     Sustainable Food Consumption all of northern Nevada 3 Philip Moore