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child support adding 20% to costs of local Distric Attorneys 



but nothing but match grants are offered to offset 

 additional costs. Sound local governments are in a budget 

 busting position to come up with matching funds yet are 

 faced with sure court action if they don't spend this money 

 they simply don't have! 



One big help the Federal Government can offer is to give 

 land that industry can build on, thus broadening our tax 

 base and providing badly needed jobs. 



As I have said before, Lincoln County is 98.8% Federal land. 

 As a rancher and miner's daughter, I could tell you of many > 

 battles with state and federal agencies just in trying to 

 carve a living from our land. When your private land is 

 surrounded and sometime at siege by the Federal lands, you 

 face many difficulties not encountered by other property 

 owners in the United State. 



I use "at siege" because ranchers and miners and other 

 pxiblic lands users are constantly under the gun. Here, in 

 the East where you can raise 40 cattle to the acre, you can 

 hardly imagine an area which is considered fairly fruitful 

 for Nevada — needing 15 acres a month to support 1 head of 

 cattle. I make this point because so many huge tracts of 

 land are being grabbed in the West with no concern for the 

 impact on the local people! Our lands are not as productive 

 as the lands in the East, therefore, we need much more land 

 to simply survive! It is unnerving to have to deal with the 

 fact that your life and livelihood are to be sacrificed 

 because even though you are American, you are expendable 

 because you lack votes, therefore political clout. The 

 arbitrary land grab of the Groom Mountains of 80,000 acres 

 in the southern area negatively affected the land users 

 there; no concern for their plight was shown. Seven 

 ranchers and miners in the area near the National Park are 

 seriously affected by that acquisition. The wilderness 

 areas picked always seem to go after prime mineral deposits 

 and grazing lands-why? My theories are not appropriate 

 here, but I am gravely concerned for rural Nevada. We not 

 only face losing our access to the lands that support us, 

 but we also face constant threat of the state park system 

 coming after the minimal local private lands through 

 condemnation proceedings, because our family ranch of over 

 100 years would be a nice addition to a huge, largely unused 

 park system in Lincoln County. 



We are in double jeopardy! And that is supposed to 

 unconstitutional! 



Rural Nevadans face economic hard times. We've been in 

 decline for 20 years. When we think we've reached the 

 lowest point we find there are lower ones. Ranching, mining 



