NWP Treasurer Colin Ware hosts Portland fundraiser

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NWP Treasurer Colin Ware on a recent field trip.

Portland, Oregon residents are invited to join the Nevada Wilderness Project and NWP treasurer Colin Ware at 6 p.m. Nov. 7 for a social gathering at Everyday Wine in the Alberta Arts District for a presentation on one of Oregon's forgotten wildernesses - and help support conservation efforts in the region. Details are here and you can reserve your spot and/or make a donation here.

The Hart Mountain National Antelope Refuge in eastern Oregon and Sheldon National Wildlife Refuge in northern Nevada were set aside in the 1930s to protect the rugged landscape and unique wildlife of the high desert. These neighboring refuges contain not only vast stretches of sagebrush grasslands, but also high cliffs, narrow gorges, lakes, and springs.The varied habitats shelter important populations of pronghorn antelope, mule deer, sage-grouse, bighorn sheep, and other types of wildlife.

These two refuges form the heart of one of the largest and healthiest high-desert sagebrush ecosystems in the American West, a crucial and rapidly vanishing part of our natural history.

Conservation of the Greater Hart-Sheldon Ecosystem offers the opportunity to protect a contiguous and ecologically critical part of the Great Basin—unprecedented in size and potential for protecting biological diversity.

Conservation will also protect tens of thousands of years of human history. The Hart/Sheldon refuges house prehistoric sites, petroglyphs, ancient Native American settlements and pioneer homesteads from the turn of the 20th Century.

This event is a fundraiser hosted by Nevada Wilderness Project which, along with six other conservation organizations, is working to protect this land. The host for the event, Portland resident Colin Ware, was recruited for the NWP board when he was a resident of Las Vegas.

There is a suggested donation of $25 - $50 for the event. There will be finger food and a no host bar. The program will consist of presentation with lots of pictures by one of NWP's biologists who will discuss why this region is such an important ecosystem, and talk a bit about its history as one of Oregon's most remote homesteading sites.

All funds from the event will benefit NWP - all costs are being borne by Ware as a donation to NWP.

Please join us!