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While NNREC is an education rather than advocacy organization, we recognize that many environmental advocacy organizations offer educational programs as well as protecting, conserving and enjoying the natural environment and communities of Nevada. Since the categorization of education and advocacy is rather arbitrary, please also check nonprofit organizations and other.
Muscle Powered of Carson City: 700 Wagner Dr, Carson City NV 89703-1535; ; 775-882-4898. Muscle Powered: Citizens for a Bikable and Walkable Carson City is a private, not-for-profit organization dedicated to making Carson City Nevada a safer community for pedestrians and bicyclists through advocacy, education, and promotion of bike-and-pedestrian-friendly roadways, and bike-and-pedestrian-friendly development and redevelopment.
Sierra Club - Toiyabe Chapter: PO Box 8096, Reno NV 89507; 775-323-3162
Great Basin Mine Watch: PO Box 10262 Reno NV 89510;
; 775-348-1986
Formed in 1995, Great Basin Mine Watch (GBMW) is a coalition of Native Americans, environmentalists, ranchers and independent prospectors. GBMW serves to protect the region's land, water and wildlife as well as sustainable communities by mitigating the impacts of hard rock mining and oil and gas development. We serve our constituent communities by collecting information, performing research and educating the public, the media and politicians about irresponsible hard rock mining and mining policy. This includes impacts of mine de-watering, heavy metal contamination, discharge of pollutants, reclamation and abandoned mine sites.
Citizen Alert: PO Box 5339, Reno, NV 89513; 775-827-4200 / 775-827-4299 Fax;
We are a 26-year-old grassroots environmental group based in the State of Nevada, providing education, advocacy, and empowerment to citizens on matters of environmental policy and environmental justice.
Friends of Nevada Wilderness: 1700 E Desert Inn Rd, Las Vegas NV 89109; 702-650-6542;
The mission of Friends of Nevada Wilderness is to: 1. educate the public on the natural resource and social values of and need for wilderness; 2. educate the public on the benefits, including economic, of protecting qualified Nevada public lands as wilderness; 3. educate the public on the threats to these values from mining, overgrazing, road construction, and unregulated off-road vehicle use; 4. work with the public and land managing agencies to improve the management of these qualified Nevada wild lands and; 5. work with the public and land managing agencies on restoration of public lands.
Nevada Mining Association: 5250 South Virginia St, Ste 220, Reno NV 89502; 775-829-2121; 775-829-2148 fax
Nevada Mining is dedicated to the better education of our nation's youth. The industry is actively engaged in many educational programs such as scholarships, educational mineral workshops for teachers, classroom presentations, career fairs and many other earth science programs. On these pages, you will find fun, educational activities for the classroom and the entire family. Learn how mining is important in our everyday lives.
NORA: PO Box 1245, Carson City NV 89702-1245; 775-883-1169
Founded in 1958 as the Nevada Public Domain Survey (NPDS) and dedicated to the preservation and management of our U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Public Lands and unappropriated government lands worldwide. The Nevada Outdoor Recreation Association, Inc. (NORA) is the nation's oldest BLM Public Lands environmental and commons ecology advocacy.
Nevada Conservation League: P.O. Box 11193, Zephyr Cove NV 89448; 775-588-0032
The Nevada Conservation League is a non-profit organization incorporated for the purpose of building the power of Nevada's environmental community to involve citizens in the policy making process.
Nevada Green Party: PO Box 9056, Reno NV 89507-9056; 775-787-8933;
The Green Party of the United States is working to reform corporatized politics. And, the Green Party is promoting the real American goals of grassroots democracy, community, a clean environment, peace, and prosperity, for ourselves and our posterity.
Progressive Leadership Alliance of Nevada: 1101 Riverside Dr, Reno NV 89509; 775-348-7557 / Fax 775-348-7707 (also in Las Vegas and Carson City)
PLAN was formed in 1994 to bring people and organizations together who are committed to making a positive difference. PLAN provides a vehicle in Nevada for building consensus and collective strategies among progressives on a range of issues including welfare, immigration, taxes, environment, campaign finance reform, economic justice and reproductive choice.
Nevada Wilderness Project: 8550 White Fir, Reno NV 89523; 775-746-7850 / fax: 775-746-7868;
Our mission is the preservation of Nevada’s outstanding wildlands through their incorporation into the National Wilderness Preservation System. We promote a positive message of wilderness values through our citizen’s inventory of potential wilderness on public lands, and we seek the establishment of an enduring grassroots commitment to Nevada wilderness.
Scenic Nevada: PO Box 32, Reno, NV 89504; Phone/Fax 775-329-3117;
Scenic Nevada is a non-profit, non-partisan organization that works to preserve, protect, and enhance the scenic character of Nevada. Our principal activity is to educate the general public of the economic, social, and cultural benefits of scenic preservation by means of encouraging billboard and sign control, smart growth, sensitive placement of wireless towers, as well as maintaining Nevada's unique quality of life by protecting its scenic byways.
Truckee Meadows Tomorrow: 75 Pringle Way Ste 114, Reno NV 89502; 775-982-4325/775-323-2341 fax;
Truckee Meadows Tomorrow is a community-based, nonprofit organization whose mission is to monitor and improve the quality of life in the Truckee Meadows.
