The Pinon-Pine — Old Ally or New Pest? Western Shoshone Indians vs. The Bureau of Land Management in Nevada
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For a period of nearly fifteen years, spanning the entire decade of the 1960s, the Nevada office of the federal Bureau of Land Management pursued a land management policy that brought criticism from important segments of the state's Indian population. This policy involved the eradication of pinon-pine stands on wide areas of public land. Western Shoshones, who constitute the largest Indian group in the eastern half of the state, were among the most outspoken opponents of the policy. Embedded in the controversy were some very basic issues: treaty rights and land ownership; the ecological soundness of trying to replace trees with grasses; the effectiveness of the eradication process; and the moral or ethical rights of ecosystems as opposed to the monetary dictates of economic systems. As a result of the passage of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969, and the regulations that required environmental impact assessment, the BLM eventually acknowledged Western Shoshones' concerns. They recognized their prior rights to pinonpine groves as a resource that constituted an "environmental amenity" whose value extended far beyond economic considerations that might otherwise be debatable. By 1974, 131
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Richard O.. The Pinon-Pine — Old Ally or New Pest? Western Shoshone Indians vs. The Bureau of Land Management in Nevada. 1985. https://doi.org/10.2307/3984338
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