Keeping an eye on public land developments
 One of our primary roles is monitoring the management of natural resources on public lands. We keep an eye on all manner of development on Nevada's nearly 50 million acres of public land. Generally speaking, we are looking to make sure these projects -- whether they are mines, geothermal energy plants, water exportation schemes or utility scale solar energy farms -- don't interfere with sensitive wildlife habitats, spectacular wildlands or potentional wilderness areas, conservation areas, areas of critical environmental concern or other categories of special landscapes.
A major portion of this effort is focused on renewable energy projects. Nevada is rich in solar, wind and geothermal energy, and while we are in favor of renewable energy development as a way to battle man-caused global warming that is affecting Nevada's wildlife habitats, we want to make sure these projects are located in areas where they will do the least amount of harm to threatened species or special landforms. We think there are ways to develop renewable energy without destroying large tracts of land in the Great Basin and Mojave Desert regions of Nevada.
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