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- SCR6 Urges counties to map and document certain county roads to preserve rights-of-way over public lands in Nevada. (BDR R-467)
- Introduced On: Feb 11, 2009
- By: Mark Amodei
- Most Recent History Action: Feb 12, 2009 - From printer. To committee.
- Upcoming Hearings: Senate Natural Resources; Mar. 10, 2009 03:30 PM, Room 2144.
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.
- SJR2 Urges Congress to take certain actions concerning wilderness areas and wilderness study areas. (BDR R-604)
- Introduced On: Feb 09, 2009
- By: Senate Natural Resources
- Most Recent History Action: Mar. 05, 2009 - Senate Natural Resources Committee held hearing, but took no action.
- Upcoming Hearings: Senate Natural Resources; Mar. 10, 2009 03:30 PM, Room 2144
Background for SJR 2 Many rights-of-way that cross pulic 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 Although these provisions were repealed by the enactment of the Federal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 recognozed 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:
- Complete a timely release of the WSAs that are not suitable for wilderness; and
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Not to adopt any legislation that creates new wilderness areas, wilderness study areas or alters the use of public lands
without obtaining supporting resolutions from the Board of County Commissioners from the affected counties.
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:
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Vote and comment – this link will take you to the Nevada
Legislature opinion poll website. CAUTION: be sure to select S.J.R. 2 NOT S.J.R. 2* (the * indicates a completely different
resolution),. Select Vote FOR, and add any comments you like and fill the required identification fields (your identity is
confidential). You wil need to use this link twice: once of S.J.R. 2 and once for S.C.R. 6.
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Send an email to the Senate Natural Resources Committee members:
- The email Subject should be - I support S.J.R. 2
- The body of the email can be as simple as - I support S.J.R. 2 - or any message you wish to send.
- The list of committee members is below.
- Senator David R. Parks, Chair (dparks@sen.state.nv.us)
- Senator Allison Copening, Vice Chair (acopening@sen.state.nv.us)
- Senator Senator Bernice Mathews (bmathews@sen.state.nv.us)
- Senator Senator Bob Coffin (bcoffin@sen.state.nv.us)
- Senator Senator Dean A. Rhoads (drhoads@sen.state.nv.us)
- Senator Senator Mark E. Amodei (mamodei@sen.state.nv.us)
- Senator Senator Dennis Nolan (dnolan@sen.state.nv.us)/ul
As a shortcut you might try to SELECT, COPY and PASTE the following into the To: line of your message.
dparks@sen.state.nv.us, acopening@sen.state.nv.us, bmathews@sen.state.nv.us, bcoffin@sen.state.nv.us, drhoads@sen.state.nv.us,
mamodei@sen.state.nv.us, dnolan@sen.state.nv.us
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.
Last year the Coalition for Public Access (our partner organization in Lyon County) was active in meeting with the Nevada Legislative
Committee on Public Lands (LCPL) and made several recommendations regarding the protection of our rights of access and use of
Federally Managed Public Lands. Senator Rhoads, LCPL Chair and Senator for the Rural Nevada Senatorial District, submitted a Bill
Draft Request in support of one of our recommendations – our recommendation became S.J.R. 2.
- 43-501 Requires registration and titling of off-road vehicles.
- Requested by: Legislative Committee on Public Lands, Sept 01, 2008
- 15-514 Establishes new penalties for dumping on Public Lands.
- Requested by: Assemblyman Bobzien, Sept 02, 2008
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