Silver State Times

A new director of the Nevada Department of Conservation and Natural Resources (NDCNR) has been named, as current director Bradley Crowell accepted a position with the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

Crowell was thanked for his service by Gov. Steve Sisolak.

"I am extremely grateful for Director Crowell’s five and a half years of service leading Nevada’s Department of Conservation and Natural Resources,” Sisolak said in a recent press release. "As a native Nevadan and experienced leader, Crowell has demonstrated a steadfast commitment to protecting our state’s environment and the vast cultural, recreational, and natural resources throughout the Silver State.”

President Joe Biden offered Crowell a position with the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, the release said.

“As Director of one of Nevada’s largest and most multi-faceted agencies, he has been instrumental in engaging with Nevada’s broad range of stakeholders to address Nevada’s many environmental and natural challenges and opportunities head-on, including clean air and water, climate change, wildfire and forest health, drought, sustainable outdoor recreation, land management, responsible hard rock and critical minerals mining, protecting sagebrush habitat, historic resource preservation, and much more,” Sisolak said in the release. “There is no doubt Nevada has benefited from his visionary leadership, expertise, proactive and collaborative spirit, and unwavering commitment to public service. On behalf of the great State of Nevada, I thank Director Crowell for his meritorious service and wish him and his family nothing but the best in the future.”

Sisolak has chosen Jim Lawrence, the deputy director of NDCNR, to become acting director as Crowell heads to work for the federal government.