KESQ NewsChannel 3 Palm Springs, CA: Bush signs largest designation of Nevada wilderness ever

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Bush signs largest designation of Nevada wilderness ever

RENO, Nev. President Bush has signed into law a measure conservationists say is the single largest designation of federally protected wilderness in Nevada history -- a total of about 12-hundred square miles north and east of Las Vegas.
The new law is called the Lincoln County Conservation, Recreation, and Development Act of 2004. It is billed as a compromise between environmentalists who want permanent protection of intact wild lands and developers who want more water for Clark County.

The measure creates 14 new wilderness areas protecting wildlife habitat, rugged mountain peaks, limestone cliffs, fragile caves and archaeological resources across a total of 768-thousand acres. That's an area about half the size of the state of Delaware.

It directs the Bureau of Land Management to auction up to 90-thousand acres of federal land in the rural county north of Las Vegas.Read More....
KESQ NewsChannel 3 Palm Springs, CA: Bush signs largest designation of Nevada wilderness ever