Former Nevadan can confirm. Once outside of Reno and Vegas you encounter a culture where citizens' ways of life, mainly mining and ranching, are continually interfered with from Washington. This remote, frontier living requires autonomy and flexibility to rise to local challenges and the federal government specializes only in adding new problems for them mainly through never ending new restrictions on land, water, and transportation use. It truly is absurd to witness first hand. When I lived there the big push was, "Roadless Areas." The idea was to identify public land "without" roads for more restrictive management. We marveled at the fact that areas with Forest Service roads or roads defined by county statute were identified as, "not having roads," by the government. When you get to counties such as those mentioned the distrust of the federal government is well and truly earned. I also recommend moving there.