Baby Mojave desert tortoise, photo from the Mosey Solar Project tortoise report.
July 28, 2026 - Pahrump, NV - Big Solar moves forward under the Trump Administration:
The Mosey Solar Project will start an official review by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) tomorrow. It is a 3,565 acre project located about ten miles south of Pahrump, Nevada. It is going to be part of their upgraded GridLiance transmission network which will export much of the power to California. On January 17, 2025, the Mosey Solar Project was determined to be a covered project under Title 41 of Fixing America’s Surface Transportation Act (FAST-41) and was added to the federal permitting dashboard:
Preliminary impacts on BLM-managed lands from the proposed project and Resource Management Plan amendment include loss and disturbance of desert tortoise habitat, impacts to native vegetation, impacts to recreational access and experience, impacts to cultural resources and Native American concerns, impacts to basin groundwater resources, socioeconomic effects on local communities, air quality impacts, impacts to BLM special status species plants; impacts to wildlife and migratory birds including habitat loss and potential direct mortalities during construction and operation, impacts to paleontological resources, and visual effects. Below is a map of the project site desert tortoise burrows.
There will be a 30-day public comment period.
Map of the Mosey solar project site desert tortoise burrows in south Pahrump Valley.