By Christian Gerlach, Campaign Staff, Our Wild America Campaign
We're Almost There! Save Lovell Canyon Needs Your Help
Your direct communication to the US Forest Service will make a difference. The US Forest Service is finally making a “Focused Management Plan for Lovell Canyon” This document will be the guide and memorialize, for future generations, what activities will be permitted in Lovell Canyon.
….And they want to hear from you! It takes only 5 minutes or less to send an Email!
Show up at one of the public comment forums or Write an Email! Either way the agency is listening and your efforts will make an impact!
Tuesday, April 17
U.S. Forest Service’s Spring Mountains National Recreation Area Office
4701 N. Torrey Pines Dr., Las Vegas, Nevada 89130
Wednesday, April 18
Bob Ruud Community Center
2100 E. Walt Williams Dr., Suite 100, Pahrump, Nevada 89048
For people who cannot attend either one of the meetings, write an email or letter!
Faxed, hand-delivered and emailed comments will be accepted until April 25, 2018.
Written comments can be faxed to 702-515-5447 or mailed to:
Spring Mountains National Recreation Area
Attn. Naaman Horn, Public Affairs Specialist
4701 N. Torrey Pines Dr.
Las Vegas, NV 89130
E-mail: htnfinfo@gmail.com
For more information you can contact one of the top officials below:
Naaman Horn, Public Affairs Specialist, 702-515-5413
or
Donn Christiansen, Area Manager, 702-515-5448
About the Save Lovell Canyon Movement
For the past two years Save Lovell Canyon, Sierra Club, Save Red Rock, Get Outdoors Nevada (formerly the Outside Las Vegas Foundation), Back Country Horsemen, Spring Mountain Free Trappers, Clark County School District, Clark County Commissioners, Center for Biological Diversity, Sigfried and Roy, Mr. Brent Torino, Friends of Nevada Wilderness, and hundreds of caring citizens have cleaned up and helped restore and protect Lovell Canyon. This effort is needed because the area has seen lots of damage from fires and trash, from target shooters and campers not practicing "Leave No Trace Principles”, shooting up trees, and using explosive targets in a dry forest. It’s imperative we show our strength through letters and physical presence at these meetings. We have an opportunity to inform management, through public comment, to protect and preserve Lovell Canyon for future generations and the wildlife that call it home too.
Our collective work is paying off, too. Lovell Canyon is barely recognizable from even just a few years ago, when it was considered the area’s free-for-all zone.