Draft:Save Martis Valley

Submission declined on 30 April 2024 by Maliner (talk).

This submission is not adequately supported by reliable sources. Reliable sources are required so that information can be verified. If you need help with referencing, please see Referencing for beginners and Citing sources.

If you would like to continue working on the submission, click on the "Edit" tab at the top of the window.
If you have not resolved the issues listed above, your draft will be declined again and potentially deleted.
If you need extra help, please ask us a question at the AfC Help Desk or get live help from experienced editors.
Please do not remove reviewer comments or this notice until the submission is accepted.

Where to get help

If you need help editing or submitting your draft, please ask us a question at the AfC Help Desk or get live help from experienced editors. These venues are only for help with editing and the submission process, not to get reviews.
If you need feedback on your draft, or if the review is taking a lot of time, you can try asking for help on the talk page of a relevant WikiProject. Some WikiProjects are more active than others so a speedy reply is not guaranteed.

How to improve a draft

Wikipedia:Contributing to Wikipedia – a basic overview on how to edit Wikipedia.
Help:Wikitext – how to use the markup
Help:Referencing for beginners – how to include references
Wikipedia:Article development – how to develop your article
Wikipedia:Writing better articles – how to improve your article
Wikipedia:Verifiability – make sure your article includes reliable third-party sources

You can also browse Wikipedia:Featured articles and Wikipedia:Good articles to find examples of Wikipedia's best writing on topics similar to your proposed article.

Improving your odds of a speedy review

To improve your odds of a faster review, tag your draft with relevant WikiProject tags using the button below. This will let reviewers know a new draft has been submitted in their area of interest. For instance, if you wrote about a female astronomer, you would want to add the Biography, Astronomy, and Women scientists tags.

Add tags to your draft

Editor resources

Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL
Easy tools: Citation bot (help) | Advanced: Fix bare URLs

Declined by Maliner 4 months ago. Last edited by Maliner 4 months ago. Reviewer: Inform author.

Resubmit

Please note that if the issues are not fixed, the draft will be declined again.

The campaign to Save Martis Valley is why Sierra Watch was started. In the year 2000, landowners and officials from Martis published plans for a huge development slated to subdivide both sides of Highway 267 with more than 6,000 new housing units from Brockway Summit down to Truckee. Sierra Watch organized a grassroots campaign and achieved a positive vison for the valley with a team of planning experts and donors. The development plan was cut in half, and today (in 2024) Save Martis Valley has protected over 5,000 acres of land - but the work continues. Now, the campaign is focused on securing a conservation outcome for the Sierra Pacific Industries. The landowner, SPI has had a proposal on the table to split the property into 3 parcels: Eastern Martis Peak, Martis Valley West, and the Tahoe Basin. Martis Peak is proposed for permanent conservation, Martis Valley West is proposed for 760 new houses, and the Tahoe Basin portion- originally supposed to be a new resort and campground - was put under conservation easement at the end of 2020. The fight to conserve Martis is ongoing and slow moving but there is progress.

References