This article is talking about how the land in Clark County could be used to grow and stretch Las Vegas out more so that some of Las Vegas would be more towards California. Their plan when proposing this bill was to build more affordable housing but also preserve the outdoor spaces across Southern Nevada for outdoor recreation. When passed, the bill would open up a large stretch of federal public land going toward the California border which will open up public land near Indiana Springs, Laughlin, and the Moapa Valley. The bill proposes changes to land management across the country. It would convey 41,255 acres to the Moapa Band of Paiutes whose lands consisted of more than 2 million acres in 1874 and were greatly reduced by Congress a year later. Shaaron Netherton said that the bill “would be the single largest designation of wilderness acres in the state’s history….”.  Some environmental groups still remained skeptical about the idea, however.

This relates back to Environmental science by implying that we need to save and preserve our wildlife as we constantly try to expand our area around us. This bill will set aside 350,000 acres of land for wildlife habitat which is critical to avoiding the extinction of some animals because of how they react when moving habitats. The bill would also preserve 2 million acres of public land and establish 337,406 million acres of wilderness in the country while protecting 1.3 million acres of the Desert National Wildlife Refuge as wilderness. I agreed with this article because it focuses on wildlife conservation, while not using public lands in a bad way.