Toiyabe Chapter

Welcome to the Sierra Club Toiyabe Chapter

In the News!

The Sierra Club has successfully stopped the Boulder City data center from being approved on public lands. The BLM tried to move forward with a massive data center on public land outside Boulder City, Nevada. The Sierra Club and Center for Biological Diversity challenged that decision, and now, the Interior Board of Land Appeals has granted our petition for a stay. That means the project cannot move forward while our legal challenge is pending. This is a major victory for Boulder City, for public participation, and for the principle that our public lands should not be handed over for private industrial development.

The Reno City Council voted to adopt a moratorium on new data center development through August 2027 — one of the most significant data center accountability victories in the American West. After more than a year of advocacy, organizing, and public pressure, the City Council has finally taken action on this issue. We will stay engaged and make sure that this moratorium leads to strong protections and guardrails to defend our communities and environment from the impacts of data centers.

We are YOUR LOCAL activists in Nevada, Lake Tahoe, and the Eastern Sierra, fighting on your behalf on the following issues:

Protecting public lands, wildlife and their habitats, and our region's scarce waters from speculation and over-development
Fighting against reckless and unfettered data center development that threatens our environment, resources and communities
Electing and encouraging environmental champions at all levels to pursue 100% renewable energy, community solar, protecting Nevada's water law, better infrastructure for electric vehicles and mass transit, and walkable, healthier, climate-resilient communities instead of sprawl
Advocating for smart-growth, open space protection, and transportation that makes sense in regional planning efforts
Protecting our region's scarce and essential waters from "water-mining" (using water faster than it recharges), commodification and pollution
Read more about all of the issues we cover

We're always recruiting, training, and empowering volunteer activists to build a democratic movement in pursuit of these issues and more! If you want to volunteer to lend at hand, let us know here.

And of course, we introduce people to the wonders of nature through our regional outings programs. Scroll to the bottom of the page for a calendar of events and outings throughout the Chapter. If you want to become an outings leader, learn more here.