Support Sloan Canyon Stewardship Become a Sustaining Member I'm Ready! Volunteer Opportunities for 2025 Join a community that gives their time to maintain trails, restore habitat, inform visitors, and haveContinue reading →

We are the Friends of Sloan Canyon, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization providing community support and educational resources that enhance the conservation, protection and public enjoyment of Sloan Canyon National Conservation Area, one of your National Conservation Lands.

  • Sloan Canyon National Conservation Area

    Designated by an act of Congress in 2002, Sloan Canyon NCA is 48,000+ acres of undeveloped desert scrub, rugged wilderness where no vehicle may tread, native american rock art, and geology formed from extinct volcanoes. However, it's...

  • Right next door to the Las Vegas Valley

    Sloan Canyon is in our backyard - for many of us, literally. As more people discover and explore the area the risk of negative impacts to the trails, wildlife, and cultural resources grow. Although BLM manages the area...

  • It's up to the Community to protect it!

    It's up to YOU. The people that maintain the trails and pick up the trash and transplant healthy plants into disturbed ripped up areas, they don't work for the federal government. Those people are you, your friends, your neighbors.

Education

If you’ve ever dreamed of visiting Sloan Canyon National Conservation Area but haven’t had the chance to make the trip yet, now you can explore one of Nevada’s most remarkableContinue reading →

Avi Kwa Ame Region at sunset
Conservation

This is an excerpt from an article FSC Board Member Alan O’Neill wrote with Searchlight resident Judy Bundorf in Sierra Club’s Desert Report newsletter. Learn more and sign the petitionContinue reading →

Face Masks at the Mobile Contact Station
Community

Needless to say, its been a challenging 2020. Four months after our community was asked to stay at home and flatten the curve, Nevada remains in the middle of aContinue reading →

Community

To support public health and safety efforts during the COVID-19 threat, we’re pausing guided hikes, on-site stewardship activities, and any effort at gathering community members together for at least theContinue reading →

Veterans Conservation Corps 2018
Projects

Friends of Sloan Canyon is proud to announce the return of a local annual program called From Military Service to Green Service with a generous $40,000 grant from NV EnergyContinue reading →

Geocaching Map
Bureau of Land Management

The Bureau of Land Management is no longer allowing geocaches within the boundaries of Sloan Canyon National Conservation Area or Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area. As a stewardship partnerContinue reading →