• - 112 WSAs, 5.1 million acres
• - Most WSAs and largest acreage in BLM
• - All or portions of 52 WSAs recommended "suitable" for wilderness designation.
• - Nevada manages 112 WSAs totaling about 5.1 million acres.
• - All or portions of 52 WSAs recommended "suitable" for wilderness designation totaling about 1.9 million acres.
• - All or portions of 60 WSAs totaling about 3.2 million acres recommended to be released from further wilderness consideration.

Office WSA Acreage

• Elko 10 272,000
• Winn. 21 1,144,000
• Carson 6 525,000
• Ely 25 1,265,000
• Las Vegas 21 591,000
• Battle Mtn. 17 722,000
• EagleLake/Surprise _12 553,000
• Totals 112 5,072,000

Editors note:

Question?

Why doesn't the BLM release the 3.2 million acres not suitable for wilderness.

(This Information was OCR'd and may be inacurate in this form)