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Nevada hunters shoot down broad public land transfer idea
Remi Warren of Reno testifies before the Nevada Wildlife Commission in opposition to widespread transfers of federal ...more
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Updated 19 hours ago
A proposal that would unload millions of acres of federal public land in Nevada fell flat Friday in Carson City.
Dozens of hunters and anglers told the Nevada Wildlife Commission they oppose the proposal contained in Congressional bill by Rep. Mark Amodei, R-Nev.
The commission, a state body which oversees the Nevada Department of Wildlife, voted unanimously to summarize the hunters? concerns in a letter to Amodei.
The original version included two phases of transfers of Bureau of Land Management and U.S. Forest Service property to the state.
The first phase includes about 7.2 million acres in a 40-mile-wide swath roughly parallel to Interstate 80, the Union Pacific Railroad and the Humbodlt River in northern Nevada.
The second phase called for a much broader transfer of federal land from across the state, excluding wilderness, wildlife refuges, national parks and tribal land.
That bill died at the end of the prior congressional session but Amodei has pledged to re-introduce another version.
It's backed by people who say the federal land agencies are slow to respond the needs of ranchers, miners and other land users.
Hunters, conservationists and others, however, oppose the idea because they say the state isn't prepared to manage the land and would eventually sell it to private owners which would eliminate public access.
?We don't have to worry about these lands being sold off,? Remi Warren of Reno told the commission.
Warren, a hunter and host of the television show Apex Predator, said after the meeting public land is critical for younger people seeking to escape the demands of constant online connectivity.
?I call it a shift back to nature,? Warren said.
Paul Dixon of Las Vegas told the commission he was struck by the age diversity among people testifying against widespread land transfers as well as agreement between hunters and non-hunting conservationists.
?Today we are united and that says something powerful in a nation that is deeply divided,? Dixon said.
http://www.rgj.com/story/life/outdo...own-broad-public-land-transfer-idea/97757908/
Nevada hunters shoot down broad public land transfer idea
Remi Warren of Reno testifies before the Nevada Wildlife Commission in opposition to widespread transfers of federal ...more
Benjamin Spillman/RGJ
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Benjamin Spillman | [email protected]
Updated 19 hours ago
A proposal that would unload millions of acres of federal public land in Nevada fell flat Friday in Carson City.
Dozens of hunters and anglers told the Nevada Wildlife Commission they oppose the proposal contained in Congressional bill by Rep. Mark Amodei, R-Nev.
The commission, a state body which oversees the Nevada Department of Wildlife, voted unanimously to summarize the hunters? concerns in a letter to Amodei.
The original version included two phases of transfers of Bureau of Land Management and U.S. Forest Service property to the state.
The first phase includes about 7.2 million acres in a 40-mile-wide swath roughly parallel to Interstate 80, the Union Pacific Railroad and the Humbodlt River in northern Nevada.
The second phase called for a much broader transfer of federal land from across the state, excluding wilderness, wildlife refuges, national parks and tribal land.
That bill died at the end of the prior congressional session but Amodei has pledged to re-introduce another version.
It's backed by people who say the federal land agencies are slow to respond the needs of ranchers, miners and other land users.
Hunters, conservationists and others, however, oppose the idea because they say the state isn't prepared to manage the land and would eventually sell it to private owners which would eliminate public access.
?We don't have to worry about these lands being sold off,? Remi Warren of Reno told the commission.
Warren, a hunter and host of the television show Apex Predator, said after the meeting public land is critical for younger people seeking to escape the demands of constant online connectivity.
?I call it a shift back to nature,? Warren said.
Paul Dixon of Las Vegas told the commission he was struck by the age diversity among people testifying against widespread land transfers as well as agreement between hunters and non-hunting conservationists.
?Today we are united and that says something powerful in a nation that is deeply divided,? Dixon said.
