Nevada monuments expected to avoid major cuts
By Debra J. Saunders and Henry Brean, Las Vegas Review-Journal
Two national monuments in Nevada have been spared from dramatic downsizing, but Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke confirmed this week that he wants to see some land carved from Gold Butte in northeastern Clark County.
Zinke is recommending what he characterized as a minor adjustment to the northern boundary of the 297,000-acre monument to exclude five springs held by the Virgin Valley Water District as a future water source for Mesquite.
But when and how that change might be made remains unclear.