Mark E. Smith Foundation

10/31/2023

Come in for a pet portrait session this fall and share your love for animals!

I’m partnering with Pet Network Lake Tahoe to raise funds for its animal rescue programs. The session fee will be donated. To showcase your furry friend’s personality, you can purchase wall art, albums, holiday cards, and more from gorgeous, timeless photos you will love.

Bring costumes (spooky or otherwise) or props such as Santa hats, bandanas, or toys, if you like.

Contact me at 530-412-0819 or learn more at ninaphototahoe.com/pet-network

06/20/2023

Near Cork 49 on Mill Street
Performing 6:00 – 9:00 pm this Thursday night market!

04/18/2023

A good day for wildlife!

https://www.nevadacurrent.com/blog/state-wildlife-official-ordered-to-pay-more-than-150000-over-defamation-claim-he-filed/?fbclid=IwAR3teGK4LaXtABe06mhUgoZbeC0MeQLp_lsKudeTpnY-NhMqxD95AMyt3ao

A Nevada Department of Wildlife biologist who sued Lake Tahoe bear activists for allegedly mounting a “vicious and calculated effort to damage his reputation and jeopardize his employment” is now on the hook for more than $150,000 in legal fees, costs, and damages. Judge Connie H. Steinheimer ru...

10/14/2022

A great week for wildlife and transparency in Nevada’s Department of Wildlife

07/17/2021

Democracy only works of our representatives are transparent. IVGID has never been transparent.

INCLINE VILLAGE, Nev. — A judge ordered Incline Village General Improvement District to turn over some documents to a local man who has been fighting for access.

02/15/2020

04/11/2019

The Nevada Department of Wildlife has been one of the worst violators of the Public Records Act, obstructing access to public documents with impunity. It's time this changes. Please support this much needed legislation by writing your Senator TODAY (the vote is on Friday).

08/08/2018

Next week!

ALERT: We are 99.9% sure our lawsuit against the Nevada Department of Wildlife and the Nevada Board of Wildlife Commissioners will proceed to trial next Monday, August 13th in 2nd Judicial District Court, Washoe County Courthouse, 75 Court Street, Reno, Nevada.

The proceedings will take place in Department 6, Judge Lynne Simons presiding, starting at 9:30 a.m. Our side of the case will take most of the week (no court on Wednesday).

For further information:

http://nvwildlifealliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Amended-Complaint-122014.pdf

http://nvwildlifealliance.org/project-36/

The trial is open to the public. Feel free to attend if you are interested and available.

For questions, contact Don Molde at [email protected]

06/11/2018

One of the more succinct summaries of the disaster our water management system has become, from his excellent book on the subject “Deadbeat Dams” by former commissioner of the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation Daniel P. Beard:

“Over 85% of all the water consumed in the West is used by agriculture…Nearly all this water is used to irrigate crops and the federal government supplies one-half of it…a majority of it is used to produce alfalfa, hay and other grasses for the cattle industry. The farms that consume this water don’t pay fair market value prices for it. Instead, they receive the water at highly reduced rates through a complex set of subsidy payments from federal taxpayers. Because of subsidies, marginal farms continue to operate and uneconomic water uses and farming practices are perpetuated. Water that may be desperately need for high priority environmental or urban uses continues to flow to farms because of the western water subsidy system…they deprive the treasure of billions of dollars in review that must be made up by taxpayers or by increasing the national debt…We provide our most valuable resource to this select group of users at rates that are impossible to justify. We give this select group of users an outdated and unjustified subsidy that gives them an artificial competitive advantage that lasts a lifetime. Even worse, our largesse promotes excessive [water] use and drives water away from other high priority uses.” [Ed. Note: in California, a full 50% of water consumption is by cows, which contribute just 1% to the State’s economy.]

06/11/2018

06/10/2018

The Foundation, The Nevada Wildlife Alliance, Don Molde and Mark smith are challenging Nevada’s predator killing policies in court! https://www.facebook.com/575286822594570/posts/1605060582950517/

05/20/2018

Congratulations Milt, IV High, and the amazing students if We The People!