Steven Horsford, D-Nev., has introduced companion legislation in the House of Representatives. Her bill is designed to revamp this permitting process and promote economic growth by allowing North Las Vegas and the Apex Industrial Park Owners Association to issue permits and get new and existing businesses the utilities they need to operate. However, without the new legislation, neither has the authority to permit new pipelines, power connections or roads for businesses and their facilities. Some developers have been facing wait times of over six years to get all their different permits approved.”Ĭortez Masto explained that the City of North Las Vegas and the Apex Industrial Park Owners Association handle most of the site’s business and expansion. “It can take anywhere from 12 to 36 months for projects to get approved, and every company is on a separate timeline. “Each of these utilities requires a separate BLM permit, which as you can imagine is incredibly complicated and burdensome,” the senator said. However, the BLM maintained control of various utility corridors that crisscross the entire development, according to Cortez Masto’s office. Years ago, Congress passed legislation to hand over a portion of the land to Kerr-McGee, a chemical company that has since gone out of business, and to Clark County. The park was originally located on federal land and was controlled solely by the BLM. Highway 93, though only a small portion - 1,000 acres - has been used so far, with another 1,000 acres in development. The industrial park, which was conceived in 1989, encompasses 18,000 acres off Interstate 15 at U.S. “Right now, every business that wants to start construction or expand at Apex has to go through a complicated permitting process with the BLM to get permission to run their sewer, gas, power, access roads, and broadband lines across those BLM-controlled corridors,” Cortez Masto said in an email to the Review-Journal. Photos ©Al Schneider, Achillia millifoliumĬortez Cultural Center & Hawkins PreserveĪcknowledgements: We would like to thank Al Schneider, Dean Palmquist, and the City of Cortez for help acquiring the signs at Hawkins Preserve and the Cortez Cultural Center Plaza.She said she is hoping to cut the “unnecessary red tape” with the Bureau of Land Management and make it easier for companies to hook up to services at Apex, which has been an issue for the industrial park. For a downloadable Hawkins plant list click Hawkins-Preserve-Plant-List.įor additional information go to, a local source of in-depth information.
We encourage the use of scientific names.įor more information click on the scientific name, which will open a window on the plant’s natural history as well as its common human uses. On the plant identification signs we provide the common name for our region, the scientific name in parentheses, the common family name, and the scientific family name in parentheses. Another example is Rosa woodsii where Rosa is a rose and woodsii refers to the botanist Joseph Woods. However, there are several common names for this plant depending on where you are: narrowleaf yucca, Kanab yucca, Toft’s yucca, or yucca. The Latin binomial usually refers to a characteristic of the plant, for example the plant Yucca angustissima where Yucca refers to the Genus of yucca plants within the Asparagus family and angustissima means narrow or narrowleaf. The scientific name (Latin binomial: Genus and species) is used by botanists rather than their common names because common names are usually specific to a single region, whereas the scientific name is recognizable worldwide and is a more reliable name. Finally, a plant with unique characteristics within a genus have an individual or species name.
From there, plants within a family that share additional traits are further subdivided into a genus.
there are over 200 documented plant species in Hawkins Preserve).Ī word on taxonomy: Plants with many shared characteristics are organized into families. General overview: This is a partial list of some of the more familiar plants of the Four Corners region and is not intended to be exhaustive (i.e.
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