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Before retiring, Rep. Mark Amodei is pushing H.R. 2317, but Nevada Policy’s McKenli Williams argues in a new Reno Gazette Journal op-ed that its land deals actually expand federal control more than they shrink it. Read the full piece here.

Nevada Policy’s McKenli Williams, raised on a northern Nevada ranch, argues that decades of treating feral horses as cultural icons rather than a land management issue has left BLM rangeland overrun, with herds at more than three times sustainable capacity and management costs soaring past $142 million a year while the land keeps degrading.

Read the full piece: https://mvprogress.com/2026/09/01/nevadas-feral-horse-problem-is-a-policy-failure-and-blm-land-is-proof/

In a Review Journal letter, McKenli Williams breaks down the real culprit behind Southern Nevada’s stubbornly high home prices: the federal government controls nearly 90% of Clark County, leaving almost no private land to build on. With BLM auction prices sometimes topping $400,000 an acre and nearly 27,000 acres still stuck in bureaucratic limbo under a 1998 law meant to fix exactly this problem, it’s clear the affordability conversation needs to go beyond mortgage rates.

Read the full letter to see why federal land policy, not just interest rates, is driving Nevada’s housing crisis