About 40 riders on horseback blocked
traffic on the main highway of Nevada’s capital city Friday to deliver
petitions to Gov. Brian Sandoval against the U.S. Bureau of Land
Management over grazing rights on federal land.The rally ended a
weeklong, 300-mile Pony Express-style odyssey orchestrated by Elko
County Commissioner Grant Gerber that began on Memorial Day in northeast
Nevada. Several dozen ranchers from around northern Nevada, wearing spurs and cowboy hats, met with Sandoval in the governor’s office. Sandoval assured them he would take their concerns over grazing allotments in Battle Mountain to the highest officials in the federal agency.
“This is what makes Nevada great,” Sandoval said to the crowd packed in his reception area. “The fact that we’re all one family ... that you feel you can come to Carson City and present and air your concerns.”
“I’m very proud of the efforts you’ve made,” he said, adding, “I’m very humbled and honored that you would do it and very respectful of all of you being here today.”
Sandoval accepted a fistful of petitions delivered in a cloth satchel and told the ranchers he would take up the matter with federal officials. The petition seeks the ouster of Douglas Furtado, the Bureau of Land Management’s field manager in Battle Mountain...
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