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I love the environment, but I hate stupidity!

I'm with you, and I think we have chatted this subject before. There is an intrinsic value to preservation of wild spaces, but we cannot, and should not, pretend that the number and type of species that thrive or die out has ever been static, or should. In fact, subspecies have continually come and gone since the beginning of time. I believe in preserving places for wild things to thrive. Singling out and changing the environment for those subspecies who fail to adapt and thrive without our help is not only not 'nature', it is not ever gonna work.

The federal government already controls about 90 percent of the land in Nevada.

I take issue with the implication here... The fed govmt controls most of the land in Nevada, because like much of the western desert or high mountainous area, no one ever homesteaded or bought it. They owned it initially by default, not by design.

A lot of the desert is beautiful if it has water. As they say "Where water flows, things grow." Most of Nevada, has a lot of mineral opportunity, but the early day extraction methods were substandard, and couldn't be mined at a profit. Now that we have the technology, the government has killed the opportunity to gain access by over-regulation, or someone or group files a lawsuit! What a vicious catch 22.

In regard to environmental protection, I agree that we need parks such as The Grand Canyon, Mt. McKinley National Park, and parks on the local level;however, it irritates me to no end when they try to turn the west into a giant park. The western properties need to be available to the populace, not under lock and key.

There's hundreds of thousands of acres out there that we can all share in, as in reasonable use. BLM is into the elitist lock up logic, and we need to reduce their ability to "govern our private lives". Let's start with standard small business practices - get rid of the deadwood, Jeff Steinmetz (Bureau of Land Management environmental protection specialist)"you're fired!" Repeat this line to other deadwood, and remind the governmental employees, that they work for us, not vice versa.