With Obama’s help, Harry Reid leaving an indelible mark in the Nevada desert [View all]

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When President Obama and Sen. Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.) flew to Las Vegas in November to tout the president’s plan to block the deportation of millions of undocumented immigrants, Reid took the opportunity to broach an unrelated subject, one that tied together his childhood love of Nevada’s desert with his political legacy.

Reid asked Obama if he would be willing to designate a huge swath of desert in central Nevada as a national monument, in part to protect a mammoth, unconventional art installation constructed over the past half a century by one man.

“Explain it to me,” Obama said, Reid recalled.

“I can’t,” Reid replied.

He was referring to Michael Heizer’s “City,” a series of sculptures reminiscent of a ceremonial Mesoamerican city stretching across an expanse of desert nearly the size of the Mall. But the request also included a much larger section of the Basin and Range, an arid landscape marked by caves, ancient bristlecone pines and walls where petroglyphs — rock engravings — testify to the presence of vanished ancient people.

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