Bureau of Land Management
Posted inFebruary 16, 2004: Courting Disaster

Rollbacks on the range

by Jodi Peterson

NATION To help public-lands ranchers and “preserve open space,” the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) plans to revise its nine-year-old grazing regulations. Some say those changes will let cattlemen ride roughshod over public lands. In 1995, President Clinton’s Interior secretary, Bruce Babbitt, overhauled the rules that control ranching on public lands (HCN, 04/17/95: Back to […]

Posted inJanuary 19, 2004: Two decades of hard work, plowed under

In New Mexico, a homegrown wilderness bill makes headway

by Joshua Garrett-Davis

Note: This article is a sidebar to this issue’s feature story, “Two decades of hard work, plowed under.” In the face of the Interior Department’s top-down decision to stop looking for new wilderness areas on federal land, some communities are working to protect wilderness from the bottom up. Sidestepping White House-appointed bureaucrats, wilderness advocates are […]

Posted inJanuary 19, 2004: Two decades of hard work, plowed under

Proposed wilderness on the auction block

by Matt Jenkins

Note: This article is a sidebar to this issue’s feature story, “Two decades of hard work, plowed under.” The following areas, which are proposed by citizens for wilderness protection, will be up for grabs during the BLM’s January/February 2004 lease sale. WIA = wilderness inventory area CWP = citizens’ wilderness proposal New Mexico (Jan. 21) […]

Posted inNovember 24, 2003: New Mexico goes head-to-head with a nuclear juggernaut

The BLM is blowing in the wind

by Jodi Peterson

It’s no secret that the Bush administration is pushing for increased oil and gas development across the West. But one often-overlooked recommendation of Bush’s National Energy Policy calls for greater reliance on sources of renewable energy, such as the sun and wind. In response, the Bureau of Land Management is studying the prospects for developing […]

Posted inNovember 10, 2003: San Diego's Habitat Triage

On a new national monument, has an agency been cowed?

by Kathie Durbin

Can cows coexist with rare plant communities in a national monument? That is what President Clinton asked the Bureau of Land Management to determine when he created the 52,947-acre Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument in 2000. The monument, east of Ashland, Ore., is an ecological crossroads where three distinct bioregions – the Siskiyou Mountains, the Cascade Range […]

Posted inOctober 27, 2003: The Gear Biz

Right and wrong on public lands

by April Reese

With everything from invasive insects to energy developers threatening national forests, wildlife refuges and other public lands, it’s not hard to understand why conservationists are scowling a lot these days. But in From Conquest to Conservation, Michael Dombeck, Christopher Wood and Jack Williams argue that Americans, now more than ever, realize public lands are more […]

Posted inOctober 13, 2003: The Big Story Written Small

National monument back under attack

by Josh Garrett-Davis

In southern Utah, local officials are escalating their fight against the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument. On Aug. 25, Kane and Garfield County commissioners and two state legislators sent a letter listing their grievances with the monument to Utah State Bureau of Land Management Director Sally Wisely and national BLM Director Kathleen Clarke, among others. The […]

Posted inNovember 22, 2004: Conservationist in a Conservative Land

A wilderness bill with a little something for everyone

by Ray Ring

Note: This article is a sidebar to this issue’s feature story, “A New Dialogue for Idaho.” For wilderness advocates: If passed, the Central Idaho Economic Development Act would create two new wilderness areas in the Boulder-White Cloud mountains, separated only by a narrow dirt-bike trail. The Ernest Hemingway/Jerry Peak Wilderness, above the famous writer’s old home […]

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