Save the Swamp Cedars – Bahsahwahbee National Monument

Spring Valley Swamp Cedars
Photo: Kyle Roerink
GRANT NAME:
Save the Swamp Cedars – Bahsahwahbee National Monument
GRANTEE:
Great Basin Water Network
LOCATION
Nevada
AMOUNT
$40,000
Year
2023

Protection for 27,000 acres of sacred lands – traditionally known as Bahsahwahbee (“Sacred Water Valley”) or locally as Swamp Cedars — with a National Monument managed by the National Park Service while also ensuring that the Tribes can work with the Bureau of Land Management on co-stewardship efforts outside of the Monument’s boundaries, which encompasses an area spanning hundreds of thousands of acres.