NPS Interpretive Guide – Across Nevada
The National Park Service published this very useful guide: National Historic Trails – Auto Tour Route Interpretive Guide – Across Nevada. This guide shows how to travel the Emigrant Trails in Nevada, including the Applegate – Lassen Trail and Nobles Route in the Black Rock Desert, beginning on Page 77. Although printed guide books are…
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SBRD Spring 2025 Newsletter
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OHV Preservation Ambassador Program
YOU can become an OHV Preservation Ambassador! Once you have registered, you can take a toodle to your favorite desert places and provide photos and feedback about road quality, damage, or other notable disturbances to Nevada cultural sites. To find out more, please visit the Nevadans for Cultural Preservation OHV Preservation Ambassador website, or watch…
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Site Stewardship Program
Stewards of the Black Rock Desert participates in this program to inventory and document historic places in and near the Black Rock Desert. To learn more, please visit The Nevada Site Stewardship Program website.
2024 Financial Report
We will have an accounting for all of the volunteer effort forthcoming.
Guru Road Restoration Project begins
On October 20, 2024, Stewards of the Black Rock Desert launched our first direct service project — the Guru Road Restoration Project. This effort is supported in part by a grant from Travel Nevada administered through the Friends of Black Rock High Rock. A total of 12 volunteers worked to remove painted rocks, recover original…
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Route Inventory
In December 2032, Erin & I went on a trip to find the path John C. Fremont took through the San Emdio desert to get to Pyramid Lake. I created a form to fill out to gather data along the way. Although this form does not conform to BLM data collection standards, it can serve…
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Guru Road Restoration Project, 8 am, Sunday, October 20, 2024
Come join Stewards of the Black Rock Desert, Friends of Black Rock / High Rock, and other interested people as we launch a long-term project to restore and maintain Guru Road, aka Dooby Lane. We will meet at Ground Zero (mile marker 2, Rte. 34, north of Gerlach). The focus of this initial effort will…
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BLM’s “Blueprint for 21st Century Outdoor Recreation”
You may find the PDF on BLM’s website or read more about Nevada partnerships here. Stewards of the Black Rock Desert is not currently listed as a “recreation” partner, but we are only two years old and have yet to develop our programs sufficiently to warrant being included. It is also noteworthy that the recreation…
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