Man in the american west, most of the land is public land. Its owned by all of us. This is nonowhere more true in e lower 48 thahan in nevada, where close to 90 of the land is owned by the federal government. Its owned by us. Chisisholm partrticularly in nevada, so many people are oriented t to spendingng time on public lands, whether you hunt, you fish, you just enjoy it casually, you horsebackride, youre a rancher, youre a miner, youre a farmer. Whoever you are, you spend time out on your public lands, and its an amazing part of our legacy, and its something that really distinguishes the United States, distinguishes nevada as a great, great place to live. Baca one of thehe beauties of nevada is that we have thesese millions and milillions of a acs ofof public lands, but sometimes thisis can lead d to conflicts,s you have g generations of people who come throuough and engage eh ththe land in different ways. Br [applause] nancy pelosi today we unveil a portrait of one of the greatest l
Mining and ranching interests. Tv reporter the town of ely cod experience the most impacts from the gat basin naonal park. My resides lieve thathe parks popularity could spill over into ely and rejuvenate an otherwise dormant economy. Christensen when he heard that there was support for a national park, he saw a solution. Reid i was willing to compromise significantly. Laxalt didnt kill it. Im sure he uld have, buhe didnt. Because of him, i made it smalr than it should have been, and i also allowed grazing ont. Cows d sheep uld graze there. I got it passed, and so there was talk about the seetary of agriculture at that time. Was recommending to president reagan to veto that. Ronald reagan democrats and republicans must join together not to do whats easy, but to do what is right. Reid so i called william penn mott, the director of park service, and i said, mr. Mott, theres talk about vetoing my park. How do you feel about it . He said, i, as a young park ranger, was asked by one of the
Classrooms. So if you look at the transit piece, did that cause any delay because of this project and, again, what methodology did you use to sort of measure that . Question, presiden yes, president yee, w we used three sources of delay and two deal with, basically, increases in vehicular Traffic Congestion from the project. So theres the sheer number of new vehicle trips, as well as reason industry delay, where the transit vehicle may pull to the side and try to get back into the transit lane if theyre stopped at a stop and thats too sources of delay and the third source is the increase from transit riders from the project on to the project vicinity. We found that under projects conditions, that the project would not have a Significant Impact on transit delay. Under cumulative conditions, so, again, going back to your earlier question, with the growth, we concluded the combined impacts could result in a transit delay impact and thats because we didnt have a ton of information from cit
Not. If you removed all of the parking from this project site and didnt replace it at all, there would be a deficit, assuming nobody switches, like everyone continues to drive. We found that temporary limited deficit would not create substantial physical, Environmental Impacts. And is it that time of year where students are asked to enroll into a class . That they physically be there . Thats my understanding. Weve received comments that faculty are also hauling materials to and from their classrooms. So if you look at the transit piece, did that cause any delay because of this project and, again, what methodology did you use to sort of measure that . Question, presiden yes, president yee, w we used three sources of delay and two deal with, basically, increases in vehicular Traffic Congestion from the project. So theres the sheer number of new vehicle trips, as well as reason industry delay, where the transit vehicle may pull to the side and try to get back into the transit lane if they
Place in an atmosphere of indian activism and even militancy. And in a famous incident, a group of native american activists took over Alcatraz Island in 1969,reclaiming it as indian land during their 18 month occupation. Amidst this assertion of cultural identity and land claims, president nixon advanced a successful proposal to repeal termination,and congress acted on nixons reform proposals. In his special message to congress on july 8, 1970, president nixon said, both as a matter of justice and as a matter of enlightened social policy, we must begin to act on the basis of what the indians themselves have long been telling us. The time has come to break decisively with the past and to create conditions for a new era in which the indian future is determined by indian acts and indian decisions. When president nixon returned the sacred site of new mexico to the people of taos pueblo in a ceremony, it symbolized the fundamental shift in u. S. Government policy towards American Indian pe