Conservationists are seeking Endangered Species Act protection for a tiny snail known to exist only in high-desert springs near a huge lithium mine planned in Nevada along the Oregon state line.
This photo provided by Lynne Buckner shows a Kings River pryg, a springsnail found in 13 isolated springs around Thacker Pass, 200 miles northeast of Reno, Nev., on April 7, 2022. Conservationists are seeking Endangered Species Act protection of the tiny snail half the size of a pea that’s known to exist only in high-desert springs near a huge lithium mine planned along the Nevada-Oregon line.
Other threats to the snail's survival include livestock grazing, road construction and climate change, the petition said. “We have a responsibility as a society to avoid wreaking ecological havoc as we shift to renewable technologies.” he said. Groundwater pumping associated with the mine will reduce or eliminate flows to the springs that support the snails, it says.
Lithium Americas and the Bureau of Land Management maintain none of the springs would suffer impacts affecting the snails — and that claims to the contrary were based on a misapplication of groundwater models, submitted after the government's environmental review was completed.
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