Dear HCN,
High Country News
couldn’t resist the urge to engage in BLM bashing in Florence
Williams’ story on the El Pinacate reserve (HCN, 3/21/94). The
front page states, “Directly to the north are public lands,
U.S.-style: a military bombing range, cow-beaten BLM allotments,
…” In fact there are no BLM-managed lands directly to the north
of El Pinacate. The only BLM lands in the entire southwest region
of Arizona are a few tracts at Ajo and Yuma. Lands directly to the
north of El Pinacate are managed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife
Service at the Cabeza Prieta National Wildlife Refuge, by the Park
Service at Organ Pipe National Monument and by the Air Force at the
Goldwater Bombing Range.
Doug
Furman
Carson City,
Nevada
This article appeared in the print edition of the magazine with the headline Don’t blame the BLM.
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