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Lake Mead’s receding water levels haven’t reduced Las Vegas visitation overall. But the outdoor recreation sector may not be so luckyHIS JOB frequently requires him to be indoors to talk about the outdoors, but Colin Robertson is an avid walker, hiker, mountain biker, and downhill skier who loves to take his kids camping. Appointed the first administrator of the Nevada Division of Outdoor Recreation in January 2020, Robertson says hazardous air quality from California’s wildfires forced him and thousands of other outdoor aficionados indoors most of August and the first part of September 2021. (Similar conditions were developing as this issue went to press.)Robertson, a Reno resident who works in Carson City, compared the smoky, choke-inducing span to “snow days,” when cold, heavy precipitation accumulates on roads and closes schools. “Now we have ‘smoke days’ as a result of fire … and that has pretty serious implications for some of Nevada’s rural communities, in pa