[CPEO-MEF] EXPANSION, NATURAL RESOURCES: Nevada Range and Desert Refuge

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Presidential hopefuls join the fight against expanding the military’s footprint into a wildlife refuge

By John Sadler
Las Vegas Sun (NV)
December 1, 2019

An environmental clash between the U.S. Air Force, conservationists, Native American groups and Nevada politicians has begun to make its way into the national political scene.

A proposed expansion of the Nevada Test and Training Range into the Desert National Wildlife Refuge has drawn criticism from the time it was proposed. Conservationists and state politicians pushed back against what they saw as an encroachment into wildlife habitat and a limiting of public lands that could be enjoyed by Nevadans.

“I think people are realizing this is a big national issue,” said Shaaron Netherton, executive director of Friends of Nevada Wilderness.

The Desert National Wildlife Refuge is the largest wildlife refuge outside of Alaska, with more than 1.6 million acres of the Mojave Desert within the designation. Under the expansion proposed by the Air Force, the military would take primary control of more than 300,000 acres currently under the control of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

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For the entire article, see
https://lasvegassun.com/news/2019/dec/01/presidential-hopefuls-join-the-fight-against-expan/

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
A project of the Pacific Studies Center
LSiegel@cpeo.org
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