The writer travels from New York to Nevada every year,
just to stop on one of the state’s empty highways and listen
to the endless desert silence
Nevada
A former state director argues narrow interests have dominated the agency’s direction.
‘This is something we haven’t seen in our lifetimes.’
As COVID-19 closes most in-person polling locations, will states be able to scale up in time?
The Bush administration is ignoring the warnings of the
Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board created by Congress, and is
racing ahead with its plans to store nuclear waste at
Nevada’s Yucca Mountain
Hot tubs vs. wilderness; Grand Junction, Colo., vs. new
logo; teenager survives spectacular snowmobile smash; Michael
Jackson in Wal-mart; "For Christ’s sake go vegetarian"; and
weakest excuse for speeding
Nevada’s getting big; urbanite hunters and the NRA;
knapweed-sniffing dog; His Royal Highness goes skiing in Jackson
Hole; blatant bellybuttons at BYU; Astrolawn in California;
reindeer meat
Now that she’s left Las Vegas, the writer recalls
the surrealistic city, and is haunted by the memory of the desert
that surrounds it
In Nevada, the county-rights activists of the Jarbidge
Shovel Brigade clash with the Forest Service over the cleanup of an
outhouse on the closed South Canyon Road
Trouble at Burning Man; take your prostate to the County
Fair; spotted knapweed kills its rivals; what happens to
"liberated" mink; what to do when a bear attacks you; exploding
pigs; "scratch ‘n’ sniff" for city folks
Two former employees say they were fired by Newmont Mining
Corporation for blowing the whistle on pollution and other problems
at the Lone Tree gold mine near Winnemucca, Nev
Residents of Nevada’s Sandy Valley organized into
the "Water Warriors" to fight Vidler Water Company’s plans to
develop the valley’s water
The Sagebrush Rebellion smolders when the BLM impounds and
tries to auction off cattle owned by ranchers Ben Colvin and Jack
Vogt for refusing to pay for grazing allotments.
A writer tours the heart of the Sagebrush Rebellion - Elko
County, Nev. - and talks to people on both sides of the
struggle.
Rancher Cliven Bundy refuses to pay grazing fees to
BLM.
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