Plans aim to keep the wide-ranging bird off the endangered list.
Bureau of Land Management
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How many more monuments will Obama create?
The recent designation for Browns Canyon has conservation groups ready for more.
Posted inArticles
Utah bill aims to force an end to the land transfer debate
Plus, a roundup of federal-to-state land transfer battles across the West.
Posted inFebruary 16, 2015: Chainsaw Diplomacy
Chainsaw diplomacy
In southern Utah’s Escalante watershed, a river restoration group tries to cut through old cultural barriers.
Posted inFebruary 16, 2015: Chainsaw Diplomacy
A recent history of land management in the Escalante region
A monumental tug of war.
Posted inArticles
Wyoming grazing dispute threatens bighorn sheep
Rancher’s domestic sheep may pass fatal disease to a major bighorn herd.
Posted inDecember 8, 2014: The Great Salmon Compromise
Range report
What the BLM can (and can’t) tell us about the state of rangeland health.
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A new map shows rangeland health West-wide
Searchable BLM reports and satellite images for 20,000 grazing allotments.
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The BLM fails to provide public records
The agency’s main Freedom of Information Act office appears incompetent or overworked.
Posted inArticles
Report warns of illegal drilling on federal land
Outdated rules and budget shortfalls make it hard to catch.
Posted inOctober 27, 2014: Defuse the West
Mapping threats on public land
Intimidation of federal officials is widespread across the West.
Posted inOctober 27, 2014: Defuse the West
Defuse the West
Public-land employees are easy targets for a violent, government-hating fringe.
Posted inOctober 27, 2014: Defuse the West
Roots of rebellion: A forum
Four experts discuss threats to federal public-lands employees and where we go from here.
Posted inOctober 27, 2014: Defuse the West
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Posted inOctober 27, 2014: Defuse the West
Reports from the front lines
Excerpts from official accounts of threats against U.S. Forest Service and BLM employees.
Posted inOctober 27, 2014: Defuse the West
Western states eye federal lands—again
The ultra-right ‘remedy’ for public lands.
Posted inArticles
Extreme Makeover, the BLM episode
How a gigantic federal bureaucracy is positioning itself to manage resources at a “landscape” level.
Posted inArticles
A public land swap for the rich
As a deal gets sweetened, how do you measure what’s fair?
Posted inGoat
Closure of federal sheep facility would be a victory for grizzlies
On the last day of August, 2012, a collared grizzly bear dubbed 726 by federal wildlife biologists vanished into the rugged Centennial Mountains on the Idaho-Montana border. A few weeks later, they recovered his collar near an established campsite. It appeared to have been cut, stoking suspicions that hunters may have shot the bear, a […]
Posted inAugust 18, 2014: Alaska's Uncertain Food Future
Climate canary
Greenhouse gases are changing the way we talk about coal.