Desert race through Nevada monument under fire

RENO — Conservationists are asking the White House Council on Environmental Quality to put the brakes on plans to allow a popular off-road, desert race from near Las Vegas to Dayton to run through a newly established national monument in southern Nevada. The critics say the U.S. Bureau of Land Management jumped the gun by at least tacitly approving a “massive off-road race course running directly through” the Basin and Range National Monument about 150 miles northeast of Las Ve