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(SaltLakeTrib) Utah rancher who led fight against MX missiles, ‘water grab’ dies

For a guy who lived in the middle of nowhere, Cecil Garland had a way of being in the thick of things.

The rancher from outside of the west-desert hamlet of Callao was a leader in the 1979-1981 fight against the U.S. Air Force proposal to build the MX Missile System in the Great Basin valleys of eastern Nevada and western Utah. He also proved an intractable foe of the Southern Nevada Water Authority’s efforts to take groundwater from beneath northeastern Nevada valleys and pipe it to Las Vegas.
Garland died Sunday at age 88 after a short bout with pneumonia.

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