Authorities in California have shut down an illicit marijuana farm in an unexpected location: the middle of Death Valley National Park.
Henry Brean
Reporter: Environment
Email: hbrean@reviewjournal.com
Phone: (702) 383-0350
Henry Brean writes about water and the environment for the Review-Journal, where he has worked since 2003. A native of Tucson, Arizona, he earned his journalism degree from the University of Missouri before returning to the desert as a reporter and editor for the Pahrump Valley Times.
Dead trees still mark the path of one of the largest wildfires to strike Spring Mountains National Recreation Area. But bushes and shrubs also are starting to color the almost 19,000 acres of federal land that remain closed to the public.
The Division of Forestry issued a pest alert for the white satin moth last summer after mapping almost 200 acres of medium to heavy defoliation within Lake Tahoe Nevada State Park.
Las Vegas police officers received a round of applause from hundreds of people sheltering inside the Michael Jackson Theater at Mandalay Bay in the early morning hours of Oct. 2.
Wild horse advocates and conservationists are suing to stop the Bureau of Land Management from “zeroing out” herds across eastern Lincoln County after the agency said the area has too little water and forage to sustain healthy herds.
The National Atomic Testing Museum will host an Asteroid Day lecture on the explosion that many scientists believe rocked the area roughly 382 million years ago and left a crater up to 93 miles wide.
The State Environmental Commission voted Wednesday to add “renewable energy development and storage” to the list of acceptable post-production uses for shuttered mines to encourage developers to use the already-disturbed land.
After a 90-day review of the Dixie Valley toad, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said Tuesday that the rare amphibian warrants a more comprehensive 12-month study to determine if it should become Nevada’s newest listed species.
The University of Nevada Cooperative Extension has built an oasis for monarch butterflies in Las Vegas
Reno developer and lobbyist Harvey Whittemore first dreamed up the idea to build Nevada’s largest master-planned community on an empty expanse of desert an hour’s drive north of Las Vegas.
Nevada’s top water regulator is blocking construction of the master-planned community at Coyote Springs because he says there isn’t enough water to support the project.
Local Bureau of Land Management staff members are rushing to finish their updated land-use blueprint for Southern Nevada to meet a new deadline set by the Trump administration.
Mandalay Bay security guard Jesus Campos shows his leg wound to the first officers arriving on the 32nd floor in the latest body camera footage released by Las Vegas police from the Oct. 1 attack.
Clark County commissioners approved a resolution Tuesday calling for federal legislation to open more than 44,000 acres of public land for new development south of Las Vegas and set aside more than 300,000 acres of new conservation land in the county.
Head of the Southern Nevada Water Authority says growth that would come from Clark County Plan to open almost 39,000 acres of public land for sale to developers is baked into its long-term planning.