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Nevada town embraces environmental group who bought ranch

The Nature Conservancy closed on its latest acquisition Wednesday: a working, 900-acre cattle ranch at the headwaters of the Amargosa River that could one day become a living laboratory for the coexistence of conservation and commerce.

New deadline set to protect 8 rivers, including Nevada’s Amargosa

Congress designated portions of the Amargosa, which originates in Nevada, and seven other California rivers as wild and scenic in 2009, but the U.S. Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management never completed management plans.