How feds use land in Nevada
By Caitlin Lilly, Las Vegas Review-Journal
In the wake of the Oregon standoff that resulted in the death of LaVoy Finicum and the arrest of Cliven Bundy andhis two sons, Time Labs examined how much land the federal government actually owns throughout the United States.
Not only does the federal government own 28 percent of all U.S. land, according to Time, but a large chunk of their ownership is in Nevada, where 84.9 percent of the state’s land is owned by the government.
Many Nevadans are aware of the statistic, but do you know how the land is used?
