Northern Nevada is big and wild in a way that is hard to explain to people who haven’t been there.  

A Trout Unlimited staffer once had three flat tires in a particularly bad week, the last one culminating in a long walk to cell phone service since her spare was flat as well. 

Trout Unlimited staff worked tirelessly with local ranchers, area residents, and many others in an effort to protect the high country of the Pine Forest Range in northeastern Nevada. As a result, Trout Unlimited helped lead the introduction of and ultimate passage of the Pine Forest Range Recreation Enhancement Act in 2015 with unanimous support from the Humbolt County Commission. The bill designated 26,000 acres of wilderness including the Blue Lakes Wilderness Study Area and the Alder Creek Wilderness Study Area on the adjacent sagebrush steppe of the range’s western slope. 

Trout Unlimited wrote the playbook for Trout Unlimited’s work in Nevada and we are continuing our work of meeting people where they are and building collaborative conservation.  

Today, staff work with the Humbolt County Commission with the goal of permanently protecting the North Fork of the Little Humbolt River and the Montana Mountains. More importantly, we are leading one of TU’s most important campaigns, an effort to protect the Ruby Mountains in Northeast Nevada from oil and gas development.