Archive for August 2008

Environmental cleanup of colony site complete

Aug 21st, 2008 | By | Category: News
Nevada Division of Environmental Protection Logo

Brownfields loan clears the way for redevelopment RENO, Nev. — The cleanup of environmental contamination at a future retail site on the Reno-Sparks Indian Colony was completed using a $950,000 federal loan from the State of Nevada Brownfields Program, made possible by a $2 million grant from Environmental Protection Agency Region 9 to the Nevada [...]



VIDEO: Nevada's Wild Horses: The gentling process

Aug 14th, 2008 | By | Category: News, Wild Horses

With the Western States Wild Horse and Burro Expo occuring this weekend in Reno, we went behind the scenes at the Warm Springs Correctional Center in Carson City to see how Nevada’s feral horses are trained and gentled so that the animals can be adopted to the public. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7dZAVacazo&hl=en&fs=1]



Director's Update August 2008

Aug 11th, 2008 | By | Category: Conservation, News
Allen Biaggi, director of the Nevada Dept. of Conservation and Natural Resources

Good afternoon to everyone in the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources. Following is the Director’s Office update for August. I hope you are having a great summer. Sand Harbor’s heroic lifeguards Three of State Park’s seasonal lifeguards had their training tested in late July. Samuel Lawrence, Alisa Johansson and Dennis Sanders rescued two people [...]