What’s Inside
3 From the President
8 Stay Safe Look
Who’s Knocking
9 Voluntree for the Association
12 History of Craig Ranch III
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Painting Your Home?
Tule Springs Fossil Beds National Monument THIS 22,650-ACRE National
Monument, signed
logic past (with fossils that span geologic history
and rallied elected officials and resulted in that
into law on December 19, 2014, is administered
from 7,000 to 200,000 years in the past) and
December 19, 2014 designation. This collab-
by the National Park Service (NPS). Behind this
our human past, present, and future. It tells the
oration also inspired the establishment of the
act of Congress is a story that resonates all the
stories of the first peoples, the native people,
Ice Age Fossils Park by Governor Sandoval in
more during this time of uncertainty and worry.
who lived off the land. Its special beauty and
December 2017. With this declaration, the Gov-
In a time when so many of us feel isolated and
power resonate with those of us who visit it
ernor set aside 315 acres for a visitor center and
disconnected, the Monument reminds us of our
today.
interpretive trails.
history, of hope, of the power of cooperation
The power of these landscapes inspired
Standing at one of the borders of this
and collaboration, and of the importance of
residents to form the Protectors of Tule Springs
amazing place, you may find yourself looking
safeguarding the future.
to ensure the legacy of this area. Their hope
towards the Sheep Mountains on one side.
Wildlife Refuge, the
and passion helped
From another view, you can take in the Spring
City of Las Vegas,
these Protectors to
Mountain Range. From other views, you see
the City of North Las
bring together envi-
the network of tunneling left behind from the
Vegas, and the newly
ronmental organiza-
Big Dig in 1967.
created Ice Age Fos-
tions, the business
Amidst the Monument are messages
sils State Park. The
c o m m u n i t y, t h e
from the past. There are paleontologic and
touchpoints of these
United States Air-
human artifacts (all of which should be left
borders reflect the
force, and our tribal
where found if you are lucky enough to see
way that this Monu-
governments. This
one of these while you are walking). There
ment connects us. It
collaboration and
are rare plants such as the lovely and deli-
represents the geo-
cooperation inspired
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Tule Springs Fossil Beds National Monument, or TUSK (the acronym used by the NPA) sits to the north of the Las Vegas Valley, bordering the Las Vegas Paiute Reservation, the Desert National
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