Burning Man wants permit to grow to 100,000 people
By Jenny Kane, Reno Gazette-Journal
Despite complaints from some critics that Burning Man is already too big, the organization may make their main event even bigger.
As Nevada Bureau of Land Management officials review how the annual, weeklong arts festival has affected the surrounding environment and communities since it moved to Nevada in 1990, Burning Man is proposing that the BLM allow the event to grow to 100,000 people in the future.
BLM officials and Burning Man organizers met with locals this week from Gerlach, Reno and Lovelock, the three communities most affected by Burning Man, to hear their concerns about growth.