Heller pushes Pershing County lands bill

Sen. Dean Heller, R-Nv., this week asked the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee to back the Pershing County Economic Development and Conservation Act.That measure would release more than 300,000 acres of BLM land in the county for sale. Heller said those lands have been identified for potential disposal by BLM and are primarily checkerboarded lands he described as a “major land management problem.”Heller described those lands as “a bureaucratic headache for both the