Outdoors

Visitors to Tonopah, Nevada can mine for turquoise, gaze at thousands of stars, and spend the night with hundreds of clowns. Yes, clowns.

The strict prohibition on fires on Nevada’s public lands will be softened starting Friday, Oct. 16.

Nevada’s annual grant program for off-highway vehicle projects has opened with $1 million in funding available.

Advocates for Walker Lake took another step forward this week in their efforts to restore the lake as a public water resource and fresh-water fishery.

Plastics, ropes, aluminum cans, clothing and tires are among the nearly 8,200 pounds of small litter removed this summer Tahoe and Donner lakes.

Firefighters and people living in wildfire-prone areas, meanwhile, need to be prepared for more extreme wildfires in the coming years.

Nevada State Parks officials are anticipating increased traffic and a surge of visitors to Sand Harbor this Labor Day weekend.

Multiple wildlife, recreation and outdoor organizations in the Lake Tahoe area are celebrating this week after another successful season for the peregrine falcon.

State and federal public land management agencies have elevated Nevada’s fire restrictions, prohibiting all open flame campfires.

This week the President signed into law the Great American Outdoors Act, a bill Nevada Senator Jacky Rosen helped introduce earlier this year.