On June 15, 2020, Tim Wilson, the Nevada State Water Engineer, issued order 1309. That order held that the public's interest in the Moapa dace had eq
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With 2020 becoming “the year of quarantine”, it’s easy to forget that Nevada and the rest of the American West have so much to offer outdoors. Yet des
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https://youtu.be/udmZhrl98VI Mesquite, Nevada is the latest town to have a Black Lives Matter protest. In the searing 106 degree heat, over 150 pr
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For decades, Nevada’s unofficial official motto has been “growth begets growth”. We were told that whatever suits the “growth industrial complex” is w
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Anna V. Smith INTERVIEW March 10, 2020 High Country News spoke with Daryl Vigil (Jicarilla Apache, Jemez Pueblo and Zia Pueblo), water admi
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“What a difference a year makes.” That’s how U.S. Bureau of Reclamation Commissioner Brenda Burman greeted attendees at the Colorado River Water Users
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Mesquite, Nev. — On Tuesday, November 26, 2019, Congressman Steven Horsford (NV-04) wrote a letter to the Bureau of Land Management in Nevada to opp
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Hydraulic fracturing works by mixing available water [i] with ‘fracking fluid and injecting the mix, under high pressure, to make thousands of extreme
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At least nine of fourteen aquifers in Nevada's Great Basin would likely provide water should natural gas fracking occur on federal lands in Nevada’s G
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Over eight years ago, I made my first leap into great “Water War” that has vexed Nevada and the rest of the American West for decades. For thirty year
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