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...loan from an Ames, Iowa, bank. Since then, Akin has added eight launderettes of his own and sold 56 Duds 'N Suds franchises in 27 states. The entertainment features are left to the tastes of the franchisees. Several Duds 'N Suds outlets show movies, and the three in Nevada have slot machines, naturally...
Wild-horse enthusiasts are equally delighted. In 1985 the BLM rounded up 17,000 of the estimated 50,000 mustangs that have overgrazed public rangeland, mainly in Nevada and Wyoming. The bureau offered the horses for "adoption" at $125 a head, but buyers found the animals unmanageable...
Last week, beneath the majestic 13,060-ft. mountain, Nevada Governor Richard Bryan and former Senator Paul Laxalt, along with other dignitaries, dedicated the surrounding 120 sq. mi. of wilderness as Great Basin National Park, the country's 49th. Named by Explorer John C. Fremont, the area known as the Great Basin stretches across northern Nevada, touching California, Oregon, Utah and Idaho. Once an inland sea, it was formed 20 million years ago by geologic plates thrusting sediment layers upward into mountain ranges. The relatively small national park contains nearly all the Great Basin's ecosystems, from desert to arctic...
...efforts to make the caves and neighboring mountains into a national park were frustrated by local ranching and mining interests. Great Basin Park, however, is good news for nearby White Pine County, a dusty patchwork of small towns, ranches and mines. Indeed, merchants from Ely (pop. 7,000) convinced Nevada's congressional delegation last summer that the park was desperately needed. For decades, Kennecott Copper Corp., which provided thousands of jobs at an open-pit mine near Ruth, had argued that the mountains might be mineral rich. By 1980 the mine was closed, undercut by cheap foreign copper. Unemployment skyrocketed...
...Nevada, Great Basin National Park opens amid stunning vistas and high hopes. -- A termite- killing pesticide is discontinued...