‘Mother of Nevada Wilderness’ Marge Sill dies
Marge Sill’s conservation efforts took her to places all over Nevada. Photo/Friends of Nevada Wilderness
By Henry Brean, Las Vegas Review-Journal
The wilds of Nevada have lost their matriarch.
Through more than five decades of conservation work, Marge Sill came to be known as the mother and, later, the grandmother of Nevada wilderness.
“It was a title she embraced fully and loved,” said Shaaron Netherton, executive director of the Friends of Nevada Wilderness, a nonprofit advocacy group that Sill helped found in 1984. “She’s just been a force in Nevada conservation for a long time.”
Sill died Sunday at her home in Reno at age 92.