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  • Legislature prepares for battle over federal ownership of public lands in Nevada

    03/06/2017 3:35:52 PM PST · by BackRoads775 · 9 replies
    http://www.reviewjournal.com ^ | March 6, 2017 - 6:03am | By SEAN WHALEY
    CARSON CITY — The decades-long battle over federal ownership of nearly 110,000 square miles of Nevada is about to be re-engaged at the Nevada Legislature. With about 85 percent of those acres under control of a variety of federal agencies — primarily the U.S. Bureau of Land Management — some Nevada political leaders want a transfer of as many as 7 million acres to state control in a first phase that could eventually see large tracts of land become state lands. Economic development is the primary driver for the introduction of Senate Joint Resolution 7, but some proponents see it...