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reports (http://tinyurl.com/cm4b7dq ). Commissioner Charlie Myers said the county is doing its share by agreeing to spend $25,000 on predator control for local ranchers. "I think we've studied the coyote to death," Myers said. "I, as a hunter, think that my $3 is going toward pre ...
Thursday, May 02, 2013 11:01 AM
ELKO, Nev. (AP) -- Nevada Congressman Mark Amodei has agreed to make a trip to Elko County to see an experimental program at a ranch aimed at rebuilding populations of sage grouse through predator control. Newly appointed Nevada Department of Wildlife Director Tony Wasley also has accepted ...
Friday, April 19, 2013 9:38 AM
RENO, Nev. (AP) -- It may be the dead of winter, but federal land managers already are preparing for a repeat of summer drought conditions in the nation's most arid state. U.S. Bureau of Land Management officials said it's possible drought conditions could again force the removal of lives ...
Monday, February 18, 2013 7:18 AM
RENO, Nev. (AP) -- Wild-horse advocates may be unified in their sharp criticism of Interior Secretary Ken Salazar, but they're split over President Barack Obama's choice to replace him. Horse groups are hoping Recreational Equipment Inc. chief Sally Jewell will represent a shift in direct ...
Monday, February 11, 2013 7:42 AM
The U.S. Department of Labor is withholding implementation of increases in prevailing wages for foreign sheepherders in Arizona, Nevada, Washington, and Oregon pending the outcome of litigation. DOL suspended implementation in order to facilitate full judicial consideration of the underlying issu ...
Thursday, February 07, 2013 12:00 PM
RENO, Nev. (AP) -- The U.S. Bureau of Land Management is issuing new policy directives emphasizing "compassion and concern" for wild horses on federal lands in the West, in response to a growing public outcry over alleged abuse during roundups of thousands of mustangs in recent years ...
Friday, February 01, 2013 9:12 AM
The sheep industry says it had no advance warning the Department of Labor planned to drastically increase mandatory minimum wages paid to sheepherders under the H-2A program in Oregon, Washington, Arizona and Nevada. The department's notice of the increased wages was placed on the Federal Registe ...
Thursday, January 17, 2013 12:00 PM
GLENWOOD SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) -- Planners and engineers in the Colorado River Basin say a parched future could be in store for the region over the next 50 years as they prepare for a seven-state meeting in Las Vegas next week. Senior Colorado River District water resources engineer David Kanzer ...
Wednesday, January 16, 2013 10:54 AM
RENO, Nev. (AP) -- A federal judge in Nevada is trying to decide whether to extend a temporary restraining order blocking the U.S. government from rounding up dozens of wild mustangs near the Idaho line in the midst of allegations of mistreatment of the animals. U.S. District Judge Mirand ...
Thursday, January 10, 2013 9:25 AM
RENO, Nev. (AP) -- Federal land managers have identified a wide range of issues that must be addressed to move forward with a proposal to establish a wild horse ecosanctuary over 820 square miles in northeast Nevada, from the impact on neighboring mustangs, livestock and wildlife to fencing, w ...
Wednesday, January 09, 2013 7:34 AM
CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) -- The Bureau of Land Management signed off Thursday on a massive pipeline project to carry billions of gallons of water to Las Vegas from rural counties along the Nevada-Utah line. The record of decision, signed by Deputy Interior Secretary David Hayes, authorizes ...
Thursday, December 27, 2012 2:21 PM
SAN DIEGO (AP) -- The United States and Mexico are rewriting rules on how to share water from the Colorado River, capping a five-year effort to form a united front against future drought in their western states. The far-reaching agreement to be signed Tuesday gives Mexico rights to put some o ...
Tuesday, November 20, 2012 2:32 PM
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- Federal officials plan to round up thousands of wild horses and burros across six Western states starting Monday. The roundups will take place through February on drought-stricken range lands in Idaho, New Mexico, Nevada, Oregon, Utah and Wyoming. Contractors f ...
Sunday, September 30, 2012 1:55 PM
ELKO, Nev. (AP) -- A fight between two Peruvian sheepherders at an isolated camp in northeast Nevada landed one in jail in Elko over the weekend on a charge of assault with a deadly weapon. Elko County sheriff's deputies say 20-year-old Aldo Beraun and the other sheepherder were drinking ...
Tuesday, September 25, 2012 1:59 PM
CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) -- Could tiny snails found in isolated, high desert springs along the Nevada-Utah line scuttle plans to pump billions of gallons of water to Las Vegas? That's the thrust of a lawsuit filed by an environmental group that claims four species of springsnails could peri ...
Sunday, September 16, 2012 2:18 PM
Major wildfires in Oregon, Nevada and Washington were being mopped up Aug. 22, but not without heavy losses. The Holloway Fire has been contained in northern Nevada and was 97 percent contained in southeastern Oregon as of Aug. 22. It burned 461,047 acres, much of it grazing allotments critica ...
Wednesday, August 22, 2012 1:15 PM
DENIO, Nev. -- The Holloway Fire in the Trout Creek Mountains of Nevada and Oregon has grown to more than 430,000 acres and still has "extreme growth potential" while listed as 68 percent contained. Firefighters were hopeful the afternoon of Aug. 14 that they may have the Nevada side of the fire ...
Wednesday, August 15, 2012 9:15 AM
BURNS, Ore. -- A convoy of trucks loaded with 500 tons of donated hay left Burns Wednesday morning for eight southeastern Oregon ranches that lost their summer range to catastrophic wildfires. The effort was coordinated by the Oregon Cattlemen's Association RESTOR task force. Use of the 17 semi-t ...
Wednesday, August 15, 2012 12:07 PM
STAGECOACH, Nev. (AP) -- Authorities say three people who were injured in a head-on crash that killed four people in western Nevada were a father and two of his children. The identities of the four killed in Tuesday's crash involving three pickups towing trailers have not yet been released. ...
Wednesday, August 15, 2012 11:57 AM
that Lyon County authorities have confirmed four people were killed. He says he doesn't know if any cattle died. KRNV-TV reports three vehicles were involved in the crash and three people were injured in addition to the four deaths. Copyright 2012 The AP.
Tuesday, August 14, 2012 10:34 AM
DENIO, Nev. — The Holloway Fire in the Trout Creek Mountains of Nevada and Oregon grew to more than 336,000 acres over the weekend and still has “extreme growth potential” while listed as 48 percent contained. Firefighters were to work the fire’s two hot areas on Aug. ...
Monday, August 13, 2012 10:25 AM
DENIO, Nev. -- The Holloway Fire in the Trout Creek Mountains of Nevada and Oregon has "extreme growth potential" and has grown to more than 152,000 acres since it was ignited by lightning on Aug. 5, according to the U.S. Bureau of Land Management. The fire is between Denio and McDermitt in Humb ...
Friday, August 10, 2012 8:33 AM
Lightning has ignited seven new wildfires in Eastern Oregon with the largest being the 72,000-acre Holloway Fire in the Trout Creek Mountains in Oregon and Nevada. The fires started Aug. 5 and 6 and five of them were contained by Aug. 7, according to the U.S. Bureau of Land Management. The H ...
Wednesday, August 08, 2012 10:41 AM
YERINGTON, Nev. (AP) -- Construction could begin in a few months for a meat processing plant in rural Lyon County. Officials say once completed, the plant in Wabuska will create about 600 permanent jobs in a rural county hard hit by the recession and where the unemployment rate is about 16 perc ...
Wednesday, August 08, 2012 7:11 AM
LAS VEGAS (AP) -- The politics of renewable energy is on the agenda Tuesday in battleground Nevada, where Democratic Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is hosting a fifth annual green energy conference at a Las Vegas Strip resort. Obama administration Interior Secretary Ken Salazar plans t ...
Tuesday, August 07, 2012 7:49 AM
IBAPAH, Utah (AP) -- The Confederated Tribes of the Goshute Reservation (CTGR) plans to protest the Bureau of Land Management's recommendation to approve a massive pipeline to carry water from rural counties along the Nevada-Utah line to Las Vegas. Tribal leaders reacted with sharp criticism af ...
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