By John L. Smith, Nevada Smith

If I didn’t know better, I’d think there was something in the water.

HORSE LAUGH: The smartest move at the state Legislature – and how many times do I use “smartest” and “Legislature” in the same sentence during the year – is to shelve AB 329, which redefines “wild life” in Nevada to exclude wild horses and burros.

Horse lovers have loudly argued that the proposed law would have the force of enabling ranchers to block wild mustangs and burros from water holes. Advocates for ranchers, and by that I mean rural legislators, counter that the legislation would clarify the proper role of the Bureau of Land Management to provide for the federally protected species.

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By John L. Smith, Nevada Smith

Formidable Madeleine Pickens has been turning heads a long time. She’s turning them now in Nevada.

Back when she was married to Gulfstream Aerospace founder Allen Paulson, she focused his considerable energies on the world of thoroughbred and show jumping horses. Paulson died in 2000, and she married Texas oil baron T. Boone Pickens. Today, she owns the Del Mar Country Club in Rancho Santa Fe, Calif., and enjoys a high-flying and privileged lifestyle most folks can only imagine.

So what, you may wonder, is she doing in Nevada?

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