NEPA public comment is currently open for a proposal by the U.S. military to withdraw up to > 227,000 acres from the Desert National Wildlife Refuge. This refuge, established in 1936 partly through the efforts of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, is the largest national wildlife refuge in the lower 48 states and contains several tracts of previously proposed wilderness. Further information is available on the Friends of Nevada Wilderness website: http://www.nevadawilderness.org/dnwr Please do not email me with questions, as I have no further information, am not involved with the project, and am not doing interviews on this subject. I am simply making this information available to the broader ecology and conservation community, as there may be little knowledge of this proposal outside of southern Nevada.
Scott R. Abella Assistant Professor, Restoration Ecology School of Life Sciences University of Nevada Las Vegas 4505 S. Maryland Parkway Las Vegas, Nevada 89154-4004 scott.abe...@unlv.edu ​​**New book out titled Conserving America's National Parks! Check out the description here: https://sites.google.com/site/conservingnationalparks/ ​https://sites.google.com/site/scottrabella/
