I am just copying this excerpt and not posting the link as posting that article might be seen as political and get me banned but the whole article is more about ecological damage Being done while people are distracted during the pandemic. In any case, this portion is about Las Vegas..
”A New Clark County Bill? SNPLMA’s Spawn SNEDCAThere’s a problem. Las Vegas is running out of public land authorized for sale. So the Clark County Commission proposes to sell off 120,000 more BLM land. If the Southern Nevada Economic Development and Conservation Act (SNEDCA), hyped on this website and video gains traction, it’s expected to rake in $8.5 billion from “expanding the ring of disposal”. There’s no explanation for where water to support more ballooning of Vegas would come from. The Center for Biological Diversity describes:
“The commission has asked Nevada’s members of Congress to support a bill to dramatically expand Las Vegas, allowing the city to sprawl into the open desert …. The measure would earmark more than 120,000 acres of public land for residential sprawl and industrial development … also pave the way for up to 300,000 acres of desert tortoise habitat to be destroyed …”.
The restoration cut from selling off this much public land would likely be enough to finish off every tree and sagebrush plant in Nevada.
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