' " by
Dick Kirschten, in National Journal (Nov.Rebellion 17, 1979), 1730 M St. N.W., Washington,
D.C. 20036.
In a move designed to provoke a court test, the Nevada legislature last July laid claim to 49 million acres of rich and scenic federal land- about 87 percent of the state's territory. Politicians in California, Utah, Idaho, and other Western states threaten to follow suit as they rail against "greenhorn bureaucrats" who are "riding roughshod" over their rights.
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