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 WAHOO!!!!!!!!! We got that old abandoned Class C Motor home out of Brunswick Canyon. This was one of the goals we had set for the cleanup and it was something to see it being dragged out. With two days effort over 60 yards of trash, an additional dump truck of trash, over 9 tons delivered to the Carson City transfer station, a few truck loads of old tires, several rusted out old junk cars, that old Class C were removed from the Brunswick Canyon area. 
In the two days we had many, many people that come out and helped. Juan Guzman, from the Carson Parks & Recreation Department was out there with the City's Clean Up trailer loaded with gloves, rakes, shovels, brooms, wheel barrows and other implements of destruction for us to use. Juan spent most his time helping folks unload their trash into the dumpsters and making sure the overflow went free of charge to the City Transfer Station. He kept asking how we managed to pick up all THAT trash and the answer he got was one piece at a time. Juan deserves a big hand for helping to make the cleanup a big success. I know I appreciated his unloading my truck while telling me to go sit in the shade and relax. 
We had folks that worked the hill from the bridge back north towards the ComputerCorp recycling center. We had folks that came in from Johnson Lane with a backhoe and trailers to cleaning out a major squatter's camp (and congratulations to Matt Wright for winning the top raffle prize, a tubeless tire repair kit donated by Protech Trailers). Folks were out picking up trash everywhere. It is amazing how fast a 30 yard dumpster will fill. All weekend long we heard stories from people that had spent the odd weekend over the last several years to haul out trash on their own and how glad they were to see someone head up a major effort. On Sunday KOLO TV 8 came out and interviewed Terry, along with KOH Radio, giving the PNMTA its 5 minutes of fame. 
Nate and family found enough tires to start a used tire shop. 
Sasha Littrell found herself a new friend, someone happy to have a clean house again. 
I got a good workout hefting that camper shell on top of a full load. And we left Brunswick looking cleaner than it has in years. 
A special thanks goes to Terry McTimmonds. He organized the cleanup, arranged for dumpsters, got the word out, found folks to donate the raffle prizes and made sure everyone that helped had plenty to eat and drink. Thanks Terry (that's the man standing in front of the door on his trailer). 
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PNMTA needs your help in support of Nevada Senate Joint Resolution 2 (SJR 2) and Senate Concurrent Resolution 6 (SCR 6). SCR 2 “Urges Congress to take certain actions concerning wilderness areas and wilderness study areas”. SJR 6 Urges counties to map and document certain county roads to preserve rights-of-way over public lands in Nevada. Background for SJR 2 Many rights-of-way that cross public lands administered by the Federal Government were granted by Congress pursuant to section 8 of the Act of July 26, 1866. Although these provisions were repealed by the enactment of the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 Congress explicitly recognized the continued validity of such rights-of-way in the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976. As the administrative decisions of the BLM and USFS may threaten the validity of such rights-of-way this resolution encourages counties to inventory and catalog existing county roads crossing public lands. Here is the full text of S.J.R. 2. S.J.R. 2 is a resolution that urges the Nevada Congressional Delegation (Reid, Ensign, Berkley, Heller and Titus) and the U.S. Congress to:
Background for SCR 6 Nevada currently has 2,552,457 acres of Wilderness Study Areas (WSA) created pursuant to a federally mandated inventory conducted almost 30 years ago. This inventory and the resulting studies concluded that 1,831,979 acres were “not suitable for wilderness designation” – yet the U.S. Senate has not passed a bill to remove the WSA classification from these lands. As an aside and to make matters worse, the U.S. Senate recently passed S.22 – The Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2009 – that will put all WSAs, regardless of their suitability for wilderness, into a newly created protection class – The National Landscape Conservation System (NLCS). Here is the full text of S.C.R. 6. Both resolutions have been assigned to the Senate Natural Resources Committee. This committee must vote to send the resolution to the full legislature or the resolution could “die in committee”. Take Action Please show your support for this resolution by:
The Senate Natural Resources Committee meets this Thursday, March 10th at 3:30PM in Room 2144 of the Legislative Building, 401 S. Carson St., Carson City and the public is invited. |
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The 75th Session of the Nevada Legislature is now in session. There are two proposed Senate Resolutions that are of interest. Mark Amodei has introduced a Resolution that would urge Nevada's Counties to inventory all county roads that cross Public Lands. In 1866, and again in 1976 Congress passed was that provided right-of-way for county roads across Public Lands. Senator Amodei wants to see the counties inventory these roads to keep the BLM and USFS from closing them. There is also a proposed Resolution asking Nevada's Congressional Delegation to work with the BLM to withdraw any WIlderness Study Areas that do not meet the strict definition of potential Wilderness; to stick to the strict definition of potential wilderness areas in proposing any acts to designate wilderness areas; and to get local support for any such acts. These Resolutions will be discussed in Committee hearings on March 5th and 10th. There are two Bill Draft Requests in the works. One from the Legislative Committee on Public Lands concerning the registration and titling of OHVs. A second Bill Draft Request is seeking to increase the penalties for dumping on Public Lands. We are waiting for the proposed Bills to be drafted before commenting. For additional information see our Nevada Legislature page. |
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The Great Basin Institute is developing a proposal for a Grant to define OHV Land Use policy in the Pine Nut Mountains. The BLM asked the Great Basin Institute to request the Grant to finally resolve this issue. The BLM also requested the Great Basin Institute to include the Pine Nut Mountains Trails Association as a partner to do the work covered by the Grant. The Grant is worded to identify that there is a need to preserve OHV usage in the Pine Nut Mountains, that this activity is desired by the local residents and this activity supports numerous businesses in the area. This process has just begun. The Great Basin Institute is drafting the Grant proposal. They have shared a preliminary draft with us. They plan to pitch their proposal sometime in May or June. We plan to start working with the Great Basin Institute in mid-April. Stay tuned for further developments. |
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