FILE - In this undated file photo is the Swamp Cedar Natural Area, a tribal site known as the swamp cedars, considered sacred by a number of Shoshone tribes in Ely, northeast Nevada. Lawmakers are considering strengthening protections for trees that Native Americans in northeastern Nevada consider sacred. The Duckwater and Ely Shoshone tribes have used swamp cedars in Spring Valley to memorialize their ancestors lost in three 19th century massacres and have long joined others in efforts to block a proposed pipeline that would siphon groundwater from rural valleys to Las Vegas. (Benjamin Spillman/The Reno Gazette-Journal via AP, File)
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