Date: Mar. 06, 2010

Upcoming workshop- details TBA

Upcoming workshop- details TBA

Date: Feb. 24, 2010

Ensuring Stability in Southern Nevada's Water Supply, Feb 26th

Ensuring Stability in Southern Nevada's Water Supply

Reminder - Join us at the open house and symposium featuring scientific leaders and stakeholders who will discuss how climate variability influences the decisions we're making regarding the long-term water source for Southern Nevada.


Participate in a panel discussion on Friday, February 26th from 11:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. at the DRI Laboratory Bay Underground Weighing Lysimeter located at 1500 Buchanan Blvd. in Boulder City. Click here for information.

Date: Dec. 29, 2009

Great Basin/Mojave Desert Climate Change Workshop, April 20-22, 2010, Las Vegas, Nevada

Natural Resource Needs Related to Climate Change in the Great Basin & Mojave Desert: Research, Adaptation, Mitigation

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the U.S. Geological Survey, the National Park Service, and the Environmental Protection Agency, in collaboration with several other agencies and organizations, are sponsoring a workshop focusing on natural resource research, adaptation, and mitigation needs related to climate change in the Great Basin and Mojave Desert. The workshop, will be held April 20-22, 2010 at the University of Nevada-Las Vegas, and will examine how climate change is affecting natural resources in deserts of the western U.S., as well as the land, water, and species management and research needs that are essential to address in the coming decade.

Workshop objectives include:

• Increase understanding of climate change processes and their effects on the physical systems and biota of the Great Basin and Mojave Desert
• Provide the "best available" scientific information for adapting to change
• Examine research and management needs
• Evaluate management constraints and determine potential solutions
• Develop effective research and management collaborations for addressing climate change into the future

The workshop offers a valuable opportunity for scientists and natural resource managers to gather for a discussion of their information needs and opportunities. The poster session will be a highlight of the workshop, please consider presenting your research results and project information in this forum. For more information, please visit: http://www.wr.usgs.gov/workshops/

Date: Dec. 09, 2009

Central Nevada Water Authority hosts forum in Reno Dec 17.

A broad coalition of Nevada, Utah and California Counties are holding an informative session to look at the science and politics of pumping groundwater in remote desert valleys.

Attending will be the head of the Bureau of Land Management, Bob Abbey, as well as numerous County and State experts in hydrology and land management.

For more information and for agenda please contact CNRWA Executive Director Steve Bradhurst at 775-747-2038 or via e-mail at:

info@cnrwa.com

GREAT BASIN WATER FORUM AGENDA -- DEC 17, 2009, NV ENERGY, RENO

Date: Dec. 09, 2009

GREAT BASIN WATER FORUM AGENDA -- Dec 17, 2009, NV Energy, Reno

A broad coalition of Nevada, Utah and California Counties are holding an informative session to look at the science and politics of pumping groundwater in remote desert valleys.

Attending will be the head of the Bureau of Land Management, Bob Abbey, as well as numerous County and State experts in hydrology and land management.

For more information please contact CNRWA Executive Director Steve Bradhurst at 775-747-2038 or via e-mail at:

info@cnrwa.com

Also see the website below:

http://www.earthknowledge.net/projects/cnrwa/cnrwanews/cnrwaagenda/

Date: Nov. 17, 2009

Happy Thanksgiving! November 26, 2009

Date: Oct. 29, 2009

Green River: Divided Waters", airs Nov. 9 at 9 PM and Nov 15 at 6 PM

"Green River: Divided Waters" includes interviews with players in the controversy and also looks at the history -- from John Wesley Powell's first expedition into the unknown river in 1869 to the Echo Park Dam, where environmentalist David Brower said, "You're not going to flood this national park," to the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act and more recently to oil shale and gas development.


The documentary airs Nov. 9 at 9 p.m., and again on Nov. 15 at 6 p.m. But KUED will host a free screening of this Diverse Voices program on Nov. 3, at 7 p.m., at the Utah Museum of Fine Arts, 410 S. Campus Drive, on the University of Utah campus.

Date: Oct. 20, 2009

October 27: 9 AM: Snake Valley Aquifer Advisory Council Meet & Video Conference

Snake Valley Aquifer Advisory Council

UT Capitol Hill Complex
East Building
Olmstead Room
October 27, 2009
9:00 am

video conferencing will be available at
West Deset HS from 9:00 am
EskDale HS from 9:15 am

The meeting also will be available in streaming video (details to follow)

Date: Oct. 01, 2009

Fall brings brilliant color to Snake Valley and Great Basin National Park

The changing season has brought a profusion of gold and red and yellow to the peaks and valleys of the entire region. Come and enjoy the feast for the eye and soak in the season.

Date: Sep. 30, 2009

Comment on the UT/NV Agreement Ends September 30, 2009

Utah proposes to sign an agreement to permit the Southern Nevada Water Authority to pump 36,000 acre feet of water per year from Utah’s Snake Valley to Las Vegas. This deal could devastate area ranching, wildlife and recreation, and turn this West Desert valley into a dust bowl affecting the air quality and snowpack of the Wasatch Front.

The State will accept written comments through September 30, but will not hold any hearings to gather oral comments on this draft agreement, so we invite the public to join the Utah Association of Counties and the Great Basin Water Network for a Citizens’ Hearing on the future of the Snake Valley:

For more information, visit greatbasinwaternetwork.org

Date: Sep. 18, 2009

Cave, Dry Lake, Delamar Oral Argument Hearing, 9 AM, Sept. 25, 2009, White Pine County Courthouse, Ely, NV

Cave, Dry Lake, Delamar Oral Argument before Judge Robison, 9 AM, Sept. 25, 2009, White Pine County Courthouse, Ely, NV

Date: Sep. 04, 2009

CITIZENS’ HEARING ON SNAKE VALLEY WATER DEAL: Wednesday, September 9th from 6:30 to 9:30 P.M. At the Salt Lake County Government Complex 2100 South State Street, Room #N-2003.

Utah proposes to sign an agreement to permit the Southern Nevada Water Authority to pump 36,000 acre feet of water per year from Utah’s Snake Valley to Las Vegas. This deal could devastate area ranching, wildlife and recreation, and turn this West Desert valley into a dust bowl affecting the air quality and snowpack of the Wasatch Front.

The State will accept written comments through September 30, but will not hold any hearings to gather oral comments on this draft agreement, so we invite the public to join the Utah Association of Counties and the Great Basin Water Network for a Citizens’ Hearing on the future of the Snake Valley:

Wednesday, September 9th from 6:30 to 9:30 P.M.

Salt Lake County Government Complex
2100 South State Street, Room #N-2003.

Please Speak Out - Help us put the brakes on this flawed and rushed deal! It’s our water! It’s our air!

For more information, visit greatbasinwaternetwork.org

Date: Sep. 02, 2009

NV/UT Agreement comment period ends 9/30/2009

COMMENT PERIOD ON SNAKE VALLEY UTAH-NEVADA AGREEMENT EXTENDED TO SEPTEMBER 30
Comment period on Snake Valley Utah-Nevada Agreement Extended to September 30, 2009.

Get a copy of the agreement:

http://naturalresources.utah.gov/about-dnr/snake-valley-groundwater-agreement.html
http://water.nv.gov/

Written comments about the agreement will be accepted until September 14, 2009.

Comments may be sent by e-mail to:

snakevalley@utah.gov
snakevalley@water.nv.gov

Comments may be submitted in writing to:

Snake Valley Agreement
c/o Utah Department of Natural Resources
Division of Water Rights
1594 West North Temple, Suite 220
SLC, UT 84114

Snake Valley Agreement
c/o Nevada Department of Conservation and Natural Resources
Suite 5001
901 S. Stewart St.
Carson City, NV 89701


CONTACT

UTAH: Tammy Kikuchi, Utah Dept. of Natural Resources, office: (801) 538-7326, cell: (801) 918-1290;- tkikuchi@utah.gov

NEVADA: Bob Conrad, Nevada Dept. of Conservation and Natural Resources, office: (775) 684-2712, cell: (775) 636-7959, bconrad@dcnr.nv.gov

Date: Jun. 01, 2009

Snake Valley Festival - Success, 3 days of fun. Thanks to all who made the event possible.

SNAKE VALLEY DAYS: Success and 3 days of fun. Thanks to everyone who made the event possible.

Date: May. 04, 2009

May 2009: We Shall Remain: The Goshute Documentary on KQED

Before anyone else would try to write their history, five principle nations of indigenous people called the Great Basin Region we now know as Utah their homeland.

http://www.kued.org/productions/weshallremain/goshute/trailer

With their own languages and dress and views of the world. With their own customs and rituals and pathways to survival, they flourished for generations in an area that would one day be called “Utah.” Theirs is the first story of people in this place.

For the last two hundred years their story has struggled for survival. Their language and histories in danger of being lost forever.

In the Spring of 2009 KUED teams with PBS to celebrate and preserve the words, the stories and the ways of the Ute, the Paiute, the Northwestern Shoshone, the Goshute [May 4 on KUED] and the Navajo people.

We Shall Remain…The Utah Voices.

http://www.kued.org/productions/weshallremain/goshute/trailer

Date: Dec. 17, 2008

Snake Valley Hearing date pushed ahead to Fall 2011.

The Southern Nevada Water Authority asked for a one year delay in the Snake Valley hearing and the NV State Engineer gave them instead two years. SNWA complained that it hadn't completed its groundwater model for the BLM's EIS so the hearing should be delayed and the State Engineer apparently agreed.