Mining, Ranching and Nevada's Public Lands.

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 Over 80% of Nevada is public lands, the highest in the country. Some of that is managed by the US Forest Service and Nevada State Parks, but most of it is managed by the US Bureau of Land Management. Public lands allow for all types of uses, from camping, off-roading, over-landing, hot spring hunting, rock hounding and pretty much anything else you can think of. The BLM also grants leasing access to grazing and for mining – two of Nevada’s big legacy industries, both of which have shaped the current state since American settlers came in the 1800s.

Public land is even enshrined in the Nevada state constitution. The access to big open spaces is intrinsically linked with the identity of this place – whether that’s for enjoyment of the dark skies, the big swaths of sagebrush sea, or for industrial and agricultural use.

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