LAS VEGAS (AP) — Environmentalists are warning that a planned geothermal energy plant in Northern Nevada could threaten the habitat of a rare toad.

RENO, Nev. (AP) — Conservationists are suing the Trump administration to try to block mining exploration in Nevada they say would wipe out the only known population of a desert wildflower.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A conservation organization has petitioned for protection of the western Joshua tree under the California Endangered Species Act due to the effects of climate change and habitat destruction.

The Center for Biological Diversity filed a petition Thursday asking the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to give Endangered Species Act protection to the Las Vegas bearpoppy.

Rancher Cliven Bundy’s lawsuit aiming to declare all public land in Nevada property of the state has been dismissed.

Nevada Circuit Judge Jim Crockett called Bundy’s claims "simply delusional.'' He said Bundy's argument against federal control of public land "fundamentally flawed."

RENO, Nev. (AP) — Conservationists are leading opposition to a proposal to triple the size of a U.S. military bombing range and training grounds in northern Nevada in a move that could gobble up more than 900 square miles (2,330 square kilometers) of public land across five counties.

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — An environmentalist says the acquittal of the leaders of an armed takeover of an Oregon wildlife refuge will embolden extremists.

Ammon Bundy and six others were found not guilty Thursday of conspiracy and possession of firearms at the Oregon federal facility.

A lawsuit accuses the government of dragging its feet on deciding whether alligator snapping turtles and eight other species around the country need federal protection.

The Center for Biological Diversity is threatening to sue over a small fish that lives in Nevada, Utah and Arizona, that it says is under threat.