It’s not quite Noah’s Ark, but Springs Preserve is gradually becoming an urban lifeboat for some of the Mojave Desert’s most threatened species.
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.
The agency’s research branch has confirmed plans to vacate its lab on the UNLV campus and pull out of the Las Vegas Valley altogether by Sept. 30.
The Bureau of Land Management is waiving entrance fees Monday at the popular park 17 miles west of the Las Vegas Strip.
Two firehouses built in the late 1920s in the Eastern Nevada communities of Ely and Pioche have been added to the National Register of Historic Places.
John Ruhs, the head of the Bureau of Land Management in Nevada, is leaving to become the bureau’s new director at the National Interagency Fire Center in Boise, Idaho.
The Bureau of Land Management has extended until March 23 the public comment period on its effort revise its management blueprint for Southern Nevada.
EPA chief Scott Pruitt said the Trump administration is “righting the wrongs” of President Barack Obama by reversing regulations designed to “weaponize” the agency and punish the fossil fuel industry.
Something is clearly missing at such natural wonders as Angels Landing, Devils Hole and Dantes View, but unless you’re a grammar teacher or a copy editor you probably never noticed.
People kept pouring into Zion National Park in record numbers last year, even as officials there continued work on a plan aimed at controlling the crush.
Anderson led the fight to close a coal-burning power plant next to the Moapa Band of Paiutes’ reservation and replace it with the first utility-scale solar power facility built on tribal land in the U.S.
With two days to go in the public comment period, the Bureau of Land Management has received only about 120 unique comments on an ongoing update of its blueprint for Southern Nevada.
A crew from UNLV and the Las Vegas Natural History Museum returned from Redlands, California, Saturday night with four vehicles packed full of fossils collected from the upper Las Vegas Wash over past 20 years or so.
The group, calling itself Pahrump Fair Water LLC, was formed to challenge the order issued in December by State Engineer Jason King prohibiting new wells in the Pahrump Valley unless they are backed by existing water rights.
If you’re looking for wildflowers in the Mojave Desert this year, the best place — and maybe the only place — is along the course of a single storm that hit Las Vegas in early January.
Edgar Reyes of North Las Vegas and Steven Schwinkendorf of Pahrump pleaded guilty to destruction of government property for their actions at Devils Hole on April 30, 2016, the National Park Service announced Friday.