Crowds fill a public lands open house at the Clark County Library in Las Vegas, Tuesday, June 5, 2018. Clark County officials held their first — and possibly only — public meeting on plans to op …

Crowds fill a public lands open house at the Clark County Library in Las Vegas, Tuesday, June 5, 2018. Clark County officials held their first — and possibly only — public meeting on plans to open almost 39,000 acres of federal land for development just outside the Las Vegas metropolitan area. Madelyn Reese/Las Vegas Review-Journal @MadelynGReese