Word: nevadas
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...West's natural resources. In Wyoming, wary ranchers are caught in the middle of a gas-exploration boom they can't control. In Colorado, a U.S. Forest Service plan to limit motorized access to the White River National Forest has angered off-road-vehicle enthusiasts. In Nevada, a proposed nuclear-waste dump deep inside Yucca Mountain has stirred up bipartisan opposition. In Oregon, Clinton's designation of the Cascade-Siskiyou forest as a national monument is being reviewed by Bush, setting off arguments over public and private land use by loggers, local residents and environmentalists...
...Nevada 83% Utah 65% Idaho 62% Alaska 62% Oregon 52% Wyoming 50% Arizona 45% California 44% Colorado 36% New Mexico 34% Montana 28% Washington...
...residential lawns that grow emerald-green year round in the desert region. But while the landmark replicas and exotic felines draw tourists and dollars, the well-coiffed lawns drain the city's resources because of the amount of water it takes to maintain them. That's why the Southern Nevada Water Authority has started offering homeowners money--40[cents] per sq. ft., with a $1,000 maximum--to rip up all or part of their lawn and replace it with less water-dependent indigenous flora...
...sorry, Riki--"s/he" isn't a word yet) refuses to identify with either gender. And her group, the Gender Public Advocacy Coalition, doesn't limit itself to trans issues. Instead, GenderPAC works to protect everyone's right to transcend gender stereotypes. A tiny niche? Tell that to the Nevada woman who was fired after she stopped wearing makeup; GenderPAC is aiding her in court. The group also helped the mother of Brandon Teena, who was killed after friends discovered he had female genitalia. (Hillary Swank played Teena in Boys Don't Cry.) "There are many people...
...Sherman graciously mentioned that it was my father that inspired him to start climbing. I was a bit taken aback since I couldn?t remember my father ever climbing anything except a stepladder. But there was that time Dad went to climbing school with my brother in the Sierra Nevada. My brother was too young to go on his own, and in an effort to become closer to his son, my Dad agreed to accompany him. He came back with his hands sliced to ribbons and stories of how he fell off the mountain three times. But my brother...