Letter: Reid targeting wilderness areas

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Friday, Feb. 27, 2004 | 8:53 a.m.

Sen. Harry Reid is at it again. After locking the public out of 444,000 acres of land via the 2002 Clark County Public Lands Act, Reid is going after another 300,000 acres of wilderness in Lincoln County.

Reid will go county by county until he has locked Nevadans out of the back country. He is supported by the Sierra Club on this issue, the same group that has sued the state over the widening of U.S. 95.

In the bill Reid is proposing, Clark County would drain the water table of Lincoln and White Pine counties to water our golf courses. This would eliminate most of the streams in the beautiful eastern Nevada outdoors.

Our congressional delegation should not support this bill.

KENNY FREEMAN