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ELKO — To ensure delivery of timely and relevant input about greater sage-grouse issues, Elko County plans to collaborate with its neighbors to submit comments to the Bureau of Land Management.

In late October, the BLM announced opportunities for the public to comment on the agency’s consideration of potential amendments to the Nevada and California land use plans addressing greater sage-grouse conservation. A public comment period in Elko is scheduled for 4:30 p.m. Nov. 8 at the Elko Convention Center, 700 Moren Way.

The commissioners voted Nov. 1 to work with the Nevada Association of Counties and other state counties to submit comments. The board also approved budgeting up to $5,000 to hire a consultant and voted to request BLM cooperating agency status for the process.

“Getting in now, especially since we have the cooperation that we do from the new administration, and the opportunity they have given us to participate on this, I think we are way ahead to just jump right in and start saying, ‘No, for us, this is not the direction we need to go. We need to do this instead,’” Commissioner Demar Dahl said.

He explained that the county commissioners’ decisions “give us the latitude to get our comments in properly and on time.”