Illove BL, to Marc, and it's one of the best woods available to me in Utah, as well. Were do you get it in Nevada? Here it only grown on private land (imported by the MOrmon pioneers for tool handles and fence post, because hickory and osage struggle, and ash refuses to not be crooked) I see a lot of it, but have access only to trees I cut down doing tree work, or stealing it from the slash piles when they clear old farmland for development.
I have a ton right now, though. And in Portland, yeah, I see it growing everywhere on roadsides and stuff.