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Nevada. Department of Conservation and Natural Resources

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The Department of Conservation and Natural Resources was created in 1957 "to consolidate and combine several different statutory offices under one administrative head for better administration of natural resources." As a revision of NRS Title 18, the term surveyor general was replaced by director of the department. The divisions within the department at the time were: water resources, headed by the state engineer; state lands, whose ex officio head was the state land register; forestry, under th...