Las Vegas District
District Background
Location: Southern Nevada
BLM Surface Acreage: 3,617,000
Designated Wilderness Acreage: 242,718
Wilderness Study Area Acreage: 47,698
Citizen-Proposed Wilderness Acreage: 854,927
National Landscape Conservaton System (NLCS) Information
Sloan Canyon National Conservation Area
Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area
Resource Management Plan (RMP) Information
Las Vegas RMP
RMP in Revision? Yes
Last Action: Scoping Started 1/5/10
Next Action: Draft RMP
Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area RMP
RMP in Revision? No
Last Action: Record of Decision (ROD) Signed 2005
Next Action: None
Sloan Canyon National Conservation Area RMP
RMP in Revision? No
Last Action: Record of Decision (ROD) Published October 2006
Next Action: None
District Contacts
Jeremy Garncarz
The Wilderness Society
1660 Wynkoop St., Ste 850
Denver CO 80202
303-650-5818 x 115 Email
Juli Slivka
The Wilderness Society
1660 Wynkoop St Ste 850
Denver CO 80202
303-650-5818 x 129 Email
Las Vegas BLM District Office
4701 N. Torrey Pines Drive
Las Vegas NV 89130
702-515-5000
Shaaron Netherton
Friends of Nevada Wilderness
P.O. Box 9754
Reno NV 89507
775-324-7667 Email
Wilderness Experts View All >
Sam Goldman
Sam has been with The Wilderness Society since Fall 2007. He came most recently from M+R Strategic Services in Washington, DC where he worked with national environmental groups to improve their online campaign work and field organizing capacity. Before that, Sam was the Assistant National Field Director for U.S. PIRG where he covered a variety of issues including the fight to protect the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
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