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This Cultural Resources Overview covers the Winnemucca District of the Bureau of Land Management, Nevada (see Maps 1 and 2). The District comprises approximately 8.5 million BLM acres in addition to about 1.5 million acres of other lands. Most of the District is high desert and mountains and the modern economy is based on livestock grazing and mining as, indeed, it has always been, from the early days of white settlement onwards.