Tag: BLM lands
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Why you cannot take protective land designations for granted
I started to be involved in conservation issues when I was 15 growing up in southern California. I watched natural areas that I loved being bulldozed into oblivion for sprawl development. I’ve continued my conservation involvement ever since. I am now retired and 72. Along the way, I had many conservation-related jobs, including as an…
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Fuels Breaks Fuel Fires
Caption: Above Cheatgrass invades fuel break cleared along road in Oregon. Bottom: Fuel break created in Idaho’s Snake River Plain. Photos by George Wuerthner The Department of Interior released a final decision to created 11,000 miles of linear cheatgrass corridors, which they are euphemistically calling “fuel breaks.” Think about that figure. Eleven thousand miles is…
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Cliven Bundy Appeals Order to Remove Trespass Cattle or Face Seizure by BLM
The Spectrum is reporting (be sure to read both pages) that Cliven Bundy has appealed the order to remove his trespass cattle from Federal lands in southern Nevada. Bundy says he intends to “keep on ranching, like [he’s] always done.” He claims that the federal government has no jurisdiction over federal lands because they really aren’t…
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Public land thieves gearing up for another land grab try
Utah and Arizona trying to seize national parks, forests, BLM land- The self-styled “sagebrush rebels” have never won any important victory in court. They have been repeatedly put down, but the idea that ownership of a fair portion of the West by the U.S. government is wrong or unconstitutional keeps coming back as soon as…