#1A Nevada Treasure DESERT NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE#2Desert National Wildlife Refuge ● Designated in 1936 by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt O Protected to preserve the most abundant desert bighorn sheep range in the southwestern United States 1.6 million acres, including 1.4 million proposed as Wilderness by USFWS Largest National Wildlife Refuge in lower 48 states#3Empty#4Empty#5SUSH MACHU-417#6Empty#7Nellis AFB/NTTR Expansion US Air Force has proposed expanding the adjacent 2.9 million acre Nevada Test and Training Range (NTTR) Proposal would: • Assume primary jurisdiction over 850,000 acres currently under joint management with USFWS • Close Alamo Road and public access to an additional 227,000 acres of Wildlife Refuge currently open to the public • Take over and close 72,000 acres of BLM land 2 new runways, 115 miles of fence, unknown amount of new roads (est. 30+).#8Nellis AFB/NTTR Expansion Closure of Alamo Road - a popular 4WD tour route O Closure of hunting opportunity in the Sheep Range Restriction of access for guzzler maintenance Impacts to and restriction of access to cultural sites#9Nevada Test and Training Range Washoe Storey Carson City Lyon Douglas Humboldt Elko Pershing Lander Eureka Churchill White Pine Mineral Nye Lincoln County/NTTR Carson City Area (acres) Esmeralda NTTR 100,861 North Storey 168,691 Range Douglas 473,762 Lyon 1,295,400 Esmeralda N 2,295,430 Mineral 2,439,500 Eureka 2,674,060 NTTR 2,979,790 W NTTR South Range -E Churchill 3,216,480 Lander 3,525,760 Pershing 3,881,120 S Washoe 4,195,270 Clark 5,154,260 White Pine 5,696,050 Nevada Test and Training Range Humboldt 6,211,990 Nevada Counties Lincoln 6,805,180 Elko 10,962,800 Nye 11,640,200 NV Total Acres 70,736,814 0 15 30 60 *NTTR 4% of NV 1:3,250,000 60 90 120 Miles Clark#10375 Proposed Nevada Test and Training Range Expansion 318 93 Nevada Test and Training Proposed NTTR Range: North Range; 2,112,610 Acres, Closed to Public Expansion in to LINCOLN Sheep Range: Alt 3C; 248,115 Acres 374 95 93 Department of Energy; 872,845 Acres, Closed to Public NTTR: South Range; 843,502 Acres, Closed to Public Primary jurisdiction to NTTR under Alt 2 of proposed expansion Desert National- Wildlife Refuge NYE NTTR 373 1:25,000,000 CALIFORNIA 160 CLARK Corn Creek Visitor Center Alamo Rd 15#11Support for Protecting the Refuge ● 32,000 letters submitted in opposition to expansion Over 250 people attended public meeting in 2018 Moapa Band of Paiutes resolution Nevada Department of Wildlife neutral but expressed significant concerns#12Support for Protecting the Refuge ● Friends of Nevada Wilderness ● Wild Sheep Foundation ● Sierra Club O Coalition for Nevada's Wildlife ● Nevada Conservation League Backcountry Hunters and Anglers Center for Biological Diversity ● Nevada Bighorns Unlimited Get Outdoors Nevada O The Wilderness Society O Defenders of Wildlife#13SJR3 resolution: RESOLVED: Strongly oppose the range of alternatives set forth in the final legislative environmental impact statement, and their approval by Congress would result in an unacceptable loss of public access to and the degradation of the Desert National Wildlife Refuge; Urge Congress to work collaboratively to develop compromise alternative which would provide for military training and provide protections for Nevada's wildlife and outdoor recreational experiences.#14Empty