Toiyabe News and Issues Blog

Nevada’s 79th legislative session ended officially on Monday, June 5. From the Sierra Club’s perspective, it was a good year. More than a dozen bills good bills passed that will move Nevada in good directions with public lands, wildlife, and...

 AB 298 Would Redefine “Perennial Yield” and “Unappropriated Water” to Permit Groundwater MiningAB 298 Redefines “Environmental Soundness” in Ways that Threaten Existing Plant and Wildlife CommunitiesAB 298’s 3M Plan Provisions Would...

The Toiyabe Chapter of the Sierra Club strongly disagrees with the President's executive order of today (April 26, 2017) that brings a review of the national monuments created under the Antiquities Act since the 1990s.  The Toiyabe Chapter...

Brian Beffort is the new, full-time Toiyabe Chapter Director

If you’re a fan of public lands, clean energy, wildlife, and water, the Nevada Legislature has been taking these issues in good directions (for the most part).A whole slew of bills have passed out of their originating committees (except for a few “...

Effective immediately, the Great Basin Group Outings Program will begin publishing all of its outings online in real time via Campfire, the new calendar network developed by the Sierra Club. Campfire will eventually completely replace...

 JUNE. Great Basin Outdoor School invites educators and their school-age children to a family-friendly Project WET professional development workshop at Oxbow Nature Study Area in Reno on Sat- urday, June 24. Project WET is a...

A new poll westwide confirms that westerners like public lands and want to keep National Monument designations in place.

We couldn't agree more with the message in today's LTE by Linda Gillaspy who writes in part:"...Our children's future depends ...

 There were 164 votes cast in the latest Chapter Election.  The following candidates were elected to two year terms on the Chapter Executive Committee: