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Most of Nevada is federal land managed by the BLM (U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management) or by the Forest Service (U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service). Self-sufficient campers can camp free of charge on land under the management of either agency as long as camping doesn't interfere with other legitimate uses. Both federal agencies ... have developed campgrounds where fees are usually charged. Fees vary by location, averaging about $5 at BLM campgrounds and $10 at Forest Service campgrounds.
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Headquartered in Reno, Nevada, Itronics Inc. is one of Nevada's leading process technology companies and a world leader in photochemical recycling. The Company ... provides project planning and technical services to the mining industry. Itronics, through its subsidiary, Itronics Metallurgical, Inc., is the only company in the world with the technology to extract more than 99 percent of the silver and virtually all the other toxic heavy metals from used photoliquids and to use this "Beneficial Use Photochemical, Silver, and Water Recycling" technology to convert the resulting liquids into environmentally beneficial, chelated, multinutrient liquid fertilizer products sold under the trademark GOLD'n GRO, and animal repellent/fertilizer products under the trademark GOLD'n GRO GUARDIAN. Itronics was one of five finalists for the 2001 Kirkpatrick Chemical Engineering Award, the most prestigious worldwide award in chemical engineering technologies.
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Located in Central Iowa, Nevada has a population of nearly 7,000 and a County population of 78,000. Nevada is the County Seat of Story County. Nevada and Story County possess an enviable richness of highly productive and educated citizens as well as a diverse economic base of industrial, agricultural, educational and service enterprises. The city of Nevada has been recognized as the "26th Best Small Community in America".
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Although it consists mostly of mountainous and desert terrain with altitudes between 1,000 and more than 13,000 feet (the state's highest point, Boundary Peak, is 13,145 feet), Nevada ... has rivers and lakes. These include the Humboldt, Colorado, and Truckee Rivers and Pyramid Lake (the state's largest natural lake) and Lake Mead (the state's largest artificial lake, backed up by Hoover Dam on the Colorado River), and 5 million acres of designated national forestland.
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/PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Akesis Pharmaceuticals (Nevada) (OTC Bulletin Board: AKES - News) names Kevin R. Sayer Outside Director. Sayer has served as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial officer of Specialty Labs SP (NYSE), a clinical reference laboratory services company, since April 2004. From 1994 to 2001, Mr. Sayer was the Chief Financial Officer of Minimed, Inc., a publicly traded medical device company focused on diabetes management. During his tenure at Minimed, Mr. Sayer managed multiple financing and strategic transactions and played a central role in the 2001 acquisition of Minimed, Inc., a pioneering leader in developing solutions for diabetes, by Medtronic, Inc. From 2001 to 2002, he co-led the integration team for the newly combined entity and assumed executive responsibilities over operations as Vice President and General Manager of Medtronic Minimed's External Pump and Disposable Product business unit. Mr. Sayer began his career in public accountancy and from 1983 to 1994 held various positions at Ernst & Young. He graduated from Brigham Young University in 1983 with concurrent bachelor and master degrees in accounting and information systems, and is a Certified Public Accountant.
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In the 20th cent. the federal government has played a major role in Nevada's development. Some federal works, like the Newlands Irrigation Project (1907)—the nation's first federal irrigation project—and the Hoover Dam (completed in 1936), have been generally welcomed. Others have aroused opposition. The Atomic Energy Commission began conducting nuclear tests in Nevada at Frenchman Flat and Yucca Flat in the 1950s. In 1987 the Department of Energy chose Yucca Mountain for the storage of high-level nuclear wastes; the state has continued to fight that decision. Federal activities in general gave impetus to the so-called Sagebrush Rebellion, which demanded that the U.S. government give Nevada lands “back†to Nevadans.
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