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Friday, August 11, 2000 Copyright © Las Vegas Review-Journal Government sues Shovel Brigade Protest group accused of trespassing Associated Press RENO -- The federal government has sued a citizens group for trespassing in its Independence Day rally on a washed-out dirt road along a stream that's home to the threatened bull trout. "It is a county road," Shovel Brigade leader Demar Dahl said Thursday in response. "I think they would have to prove that it's their road before they could make a trespass charge stick." The question of who controls South Canyon Road has been a point of contention -- ...

Wednesday, July 19, 2000 Copyright © Las Vegas Review-Journal Las Vegas homeowner shoots intruder to death A 60-year-old man guns down a burglary suspect, and authorities say he appears to be justified. By Glenn Puit Review-Journal A gunbattle in a Las Vegas home early Tuesday left an intruder dead and the 60-year-old homeowner shaken but unharmed, police said. The Tuesday morning shootout unfolded as the two men stood just a few feet from one another in the den of the homeowner's residence in the 3200 block of South Tenaya Way at Desert Inn Road. "It was quite an exchange ...

RENO, Nev. (AP) - The U.S. attorney for Nevada is warning Elko County organizers of a July 4 protest that the "Shovel Brigade" will break a series of federal laws if it goes through with plans to rebuild a national forest road near threatened trout. But Shovel Brigade President Demar Dahl insisted Thursday that he is moving ahead with plans to reclaim the road at the Independence Day rally expected to attract thousands to the tiny northeast Nevada town of Jarbidge. U.S. Attorney Kathryn Landreth said in a letter to Dahl and other organizers that she was aware of statements ...

Thomas Gaule gets probation after a judge says that extenuating circumstances exist. A Las Vegas man was placed on probation Tuesday for chasing and killing a burglar who attacked him in his home. "If there's ever a case with extenuating circumstances, this is the one," District Judge Mark Gibbons said. The judge sentenced Thomas Gaule, 43, to an indeterminate period of probation, not to exceed three years, after Chief Deputy District Attorney Bill Koot said he opposed sending the defendant to prison. "This case has been troublesome to me personally for as long as I've been assigned the case," the ...

Agency chief touts initiative on forestland By Scott Sonner Associated Press RENO -- Western senators, Republican governors, loggers and dune buggy drivers aren't the only ones upset with President Clinton's push to protect swaths of roadless areas in national forests. Senior officials within the U.S. Forest Service warn Chief Mike Dombeck about the pitfalls of the initiative that conservation leaders say would leave Clinton an environmental legacy unmatched since Teddy Roosevelt. A wide variety of active and retired Forest Service officials criticize the proposal on several fronts. Some say the plan is so poorly coordinated that staff and the ...

November 11, 1999 Hostility unnerves federal employees By Susan Snyder LAS VEGAS SUN The abrupt resignation of Nevada's top U.S. Forest Service official has bolstered the Silver State's notorious reputation among federal employees, some workers say. "It has an 'anti-fed' reputation.' I've heard it a lot since I moved here two years ago," said Wayne Smith, a U.S. Forest Service special law enforcement agent for the Nevada-Utah zone based in Carson City. "Last time I checked, Nevada was a part of the United States. But there are some people who don't want to believe that," Smith said. "It's like the ...

November 08, 1999 Forest Service boss in bull trout flap quits job By Scott Sonner ASSOCIATED PRESS RENO, Nev. - The Forest Service supervisor in charge of national forests in Nevada abruptly announced her resignation Monday, citing an atmosphere of "hostility and distrust" toward federal employees in the state. Locked in a battle over protection of the threatened bull trout as well as mining and livestock grazing controversies in Nevada, Gloria Flora said she intends to leave her post soon after the first of the year. "Fed-bashing is a sport here and I refuse to sit by quietly and let ...

November 08, 1999 Forest Service boss in bull trout flap quits job By Scott Sonner ASSOCIATED PRESS RENO, Nev. - The Forest Service supervisor in charge of national forests in Nevada abruptly announced her resignation Monday, citing an atmosphere of "hostility and distrust" toward federal employees in the state. Locked in a battle over protection of the threatened bull trout as well as mining and livestock grazing controversies in Nevada, Gloria Flora said she intends to leave her post soon after the first of the year. "Fed-bashing is a sport here and I refuse to sit by quietly and let ...