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Southern Nevada
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Celebrating 50 Years in Southern Nevada Six years after the founding of the Sierra Club's Toiyabe Chapter, members began organizing a “Las Vegas Group,” forerunner to the current “Southern Nevada Group” (SNG). In 1965, the opening of a local Wells Fargo Bank account laid the foundation for the Club’s ongoing commitment to the region. Over the past 50 years, much has changed in Southern Nevada. The SNG has played a key role in protecting the region’s environment, from promoting wilderness and recreation areas while fighting urban sprawl to taking a stand on water and air issues. Among the many highlights of the past half century are:
 * Prevailing upon Nevada’s congressional delegation in the early 1980s to halt proposals for locating MX missile sites in Eastern Nevada.
 * Support of Chapter lobbying to create Great Basin National Park, successfully concluded in 1986.
 * Working in 1988 to ensure a fair exchange of lands in the Aerojet General Corporation Florida-Nevada Land Swap.
 * Continuing efforts since the late 1980s to prevent Yucca Mountain from being used for storage of nuclear waste.
 * Support for the establishment of Spring Mountain NRA in 1993 and the expansion of Red Rock Canyon NCA in 2000.
 * Litigation to mitigate the polluting effects of widening U.S. Highway 95, settled successfully in 2005.
 * Initiated the process to establish Inner City Outings (ICO), now "Inspiring Connections Outdoors," in Las Vegas in 2012.