Burning Man organizers get permit for 2011 festival
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
WINNEMUCCA -- Burning Man organizers have been granted the federal permit they need to hold their annual counterculture festival in the desert 100 miles north of Reno this summer.
Officials for the U.S. Bureau of Land Management approved the special recreation permit Wednesday for a 4,400-acre section of the Black Rock Desert in Pershing County about 10 miles northeast of Gerlach.
The festival runs the week leading up to Labor Day but the permit covers seven weeks. It starts with the fencing of the perimeter in mid-August and ends after the cleanup in late September.
Burning Man dates to 1990. The BLM has issued permits for the festival on the ancient dry lake bed since 1992.
Last year, more than 50,000 people visited the temporary town known as Black Rock City.
