Nevada Department of Conservation and Natural Resources

The Nevada Department of Conservation and Natural Resources (NDCNR) is under new leadership after Director Bradley Crowell was tapped by the Biden administration to serve on the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

A new off-road naturalist trail from Washoe Lake State Park to Virginia City was released this month offering in-person and virtual options to explore the area’s plants and wildlife.

Downtown Reno’s St. Thomas Aquinas Cathedral has been added to the National Register of Historic Places, affirming its historic and cultural significance within the community.

Nevada’s Bradley R. Crowell this week was nominated by President Joe Biden to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

The purchase and renewal of Lake Tahoe branded license plates brought in more than $350,000 in 2021 that Nevada’s Division of State Lands said it will use to fund a number of environmental preservation and restoration projects.

Nevada is missing its targets for cutting greenhouse gas emissions and is even seeing a reverse of progress, with increased emissions in the transportation, industrial, and residential and commercial sectors.

Adam Sullivan has been appointed as the State Engineer and Administrator of the Nevada’s Division of Water Resources.

Assembly Bill 71 would make “information related to the location of a rare plant or animal species or ecological community” confidential and exempt from the state’s public records laws.

“The Dance of the Sage Grouse: Bridging Culture and Conservation” is a unique effort highlighting Native Americans’ conservation efforts with NRCS.

Crawford Cattle LLC has entered into yet another partnership to protect sagebrush habitat in Nevada, this time with Ormat Technologies.