Sheldon National Wildlife Refuge Wilderness Campaign

GRANT NAME:
Sheldon National Wildlife Refuge Wilderness Campaign
GRANTEE:
Friends of Nevada Wilderness
LOCATION
Reno, NV
AMOUNT
$30,000
Year
2009

To secure federal Wilderness designation for 500,000 acres of Nevada’s Sheldon National Wildlife Refuge and surrounding BLM lands to protect habitat for pronghorn, sage grouse and other wildlife. The campaign would also close two million acres on the Sheldon and Desert National Wildlife Refuge near Las Vegas to mining.