A tribe in Nevada finally had funding for climate resilience. Then a grant was ripped away.

A tribe in Nevada finally had funding for climate resilience. Then a grant was ripped away.

(Photo: Jeniffer Solis/Nevada Current)Joseph Frank was one of the first firefighters to respond to a massive wildfire that broke out on the Walker River Reservation in June last year. Temperatures that month were well above average, according to the National Weather Service. It was 90 degrees in Schurz, Nevada that day – 5 degrees hotter than normal for the area – when a lead-acid battery from a Bureau of Indian Affairs building overheated and “…