Desert National Wildlife Range—new report

Open-File Report 14-3
An updated mineral and energy resource assessment of the Desert National Wildlife Range, Clark and Lincoln counties, Nevada
by John Muntean, Nick Hinz, Tim Cramer, David Davis, Greg Dering, and Chris Sladek
2014

In March 2013, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) contracted the Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology (NBMG) to update the mineral and energy resource assessment of the Desert National Wildlife Range (DNWR). The first such assessment of the DNWR was completed by NBMG in January of 1993, and was published as NBMG Open-File Report 93-2, Energy and Mineral Resource Assessment of the Desert National Wildlife Range, Eastern Section, Clark and Lincoln Counties, Nevada. That assessment covered approximately 740,000 acres managed by USFWS east of the Nellis South Range military complex and was required to evaluate lands within the DNWR for withdrawal from mineral entry. In order to extend the period of withdrawal from entry for another 20 years, an updated assessment and report is required. This report provides the needed assessment.

This new report (Open-File Report 14-3) updates Open-File Report 93-2:
text (126.8 Mb), plate 2 (10.4 Mb), plate 3 (1.2 Mb)

Open-File Report 14-3:
162 pages (plus cover and title pages), color, $36.00, or available free on the Web:
http://www.nbmg.unr.edu/dox/of143.pdf