Road Development
56,262,610 – number of acres of federal land in Nevada
3,186,000 – acres of that are Inventoried Roadless Areas.
3,166,000 – acres of Nevada’s IRAs now open to road building, enabling easier mining, oil drilling, and logging after repeal of Roadless Rule.
Resource Extraction
264,000 – acres of the Ruby Mountains now open to mining and drilling, after restrictions were lifted (That same emergency order opened up portions of the Spring Mountains and more of the Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest.
South Rainbow mining project – first open-pit mine in the nation to benefit from Trump’s accelerated permitting process in Elko.
9 – mining projects currently active in Nevada since 2021, in various stages of the permitting process
6 – number of open pits detailed in permit requests
530 – number of proposed drill sites
1,445 – miles of temporary and permanent access roads
3,656+ – total acreage of disturbed public and private land
3 - mining sites located within the Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest.
Federal Worker Layoffs*
253 – Department of the Interior employees located in Nevada in 2024, in probationary period.
20 – percent of staff laid off from Great Basin National Park.
13 – number of people let go from Lake Mead.
* No official tally of layoffs were available at press time.
Quotes from Fired Employees
“If the government’s going to step down and not maintain our wild places, then who is? I think that means the public has to do it. We have to step up, and we have to take care of these places as citizens, as members of the community, or they will be destroyed.” - Riley Rackliff, Lake Mead aquatic ecologist
"(Federal workers) just want to make sure that these natural resources are something that our kids and our grandkids and great grandkids are able to experience, because whenever the natural environment gets affected in one area, the rest of the chain feels it. We're just doing our best to make sure that we don't do something that we can't undo.” - Kaesee Bourne, IPaC biologist for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
"The last year of effort in developing staff expertise — that’s all been thrown away, because everybody who was hired in the last year got fired. So, that’s a lot of effort and work on training people and building up resources that’s all been tossed out.” - Riley Rackliff, Lake Mead aquatic ecologist
