Winnemucca District
District Background
Location: Northeastern Nevada
BLM Surface Acreage: 8,159,000
Designated Wilderness Acreage: 616,096
Wilderness Study Area Acreage: 426,936
Citizen-Proposed Wilderness Acreage: 612,855
National Landscape Conservaton System (NLCS) Information
Black Rock Desert-High Rock Canyon Emigrant Trails National Conservation Area
Resource Management Plan (RMP) Information
Winnemucca RMP
RMP in Revision? Yes
Last Action: Scoping Completed May 2005
Next Action: Draft RMP
Black Rock Desert - High Rock Canyon National Conservation Area RMP
RMP in Revision? No
Last Action: Record of Decision (ROD) signed 2004
Next Action: None
District Contacts
Juli Slivka
The Wilderness Society
1660 Wynkoop St Ste 850
Denver CO 80202
303-650-5818 x 129 Email
Jeremy Garncarz
The Wilderness Society
1660 Wynkoop St., Ste 850
Denver CO 80202
303-650-5818 x 115 Email
Winnemucca BLM District Office
5100 East Winnemucca Boulevard
Winnemucca NV 89445
775-623-1500
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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