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  • The Public Lands' Big Cash Crop

    Elaborate marijuana gardens, created and managed by Mexican drug lords, are turning California’s public lands into a dangerous, illegal, industrial-style landscape

    by Adam Burke, Oct 31, 2005

  • The vast, unpatrolled public lands

    The same solitude that attracts nature-lovers to the West’s public lands attracts lawbreakers as well – particularly a growing number of Mexican marijuana-growers

    by Greg Hanscom, Oct 31, 2005

  • Jobs open up in Washington

    Sylvia Baca becomes temporary head of the BLM as Mike Dombeck moves to the Forest Service, and the National Park Service seeks a replacement for Roger Kennedy.

    by Sarah Dry, Feb 17, 1997

  • Mr. Babbitt's wild ride

    In eight years as Interior Secretary, Bruce Babbitt has known some failures but more successes: reintroducing wolves to Yellowstone, halting the New World gold mine, and creating many national monuments, starting with the Grand Staircase-Escalante.

    by Paul Larmer, Feb 12, 2001

  • Interior view

    In an interview with HCN's publisher, Bruce Babbitt looks back on eight challenging and productive years as Secretary of Interior.

    by Ed Marston, Feb 12, 2001

  • Homeland security drafts rangers

    Western public-land rangers are being pulled from their regular jobs and reassigned back East, guarding federal buildings in Washington, D.C., and serving as temporary sky marshals.

    by Michael Milstein, Nov 19, 2001

  • The push is on to privatize federal jobs

    The Bush administration has ordered federal land-management agencies to identify jobs that might be performed more cheaply by the private sector.

    by Mark Matthews, Dec 09, 2002

  • Outside the agency, it’s a cold, cruel world

    Displaced federal employees may find it difficult to adapt to work in the private sector.

    by Mark Matthews, Dec 09, 2002

  • A progressive bureaucrat signs off

    Ed Marston interviews HCN reader Daniel Beard, who resigns as Bureau of Reclamation Commissioner Sept. 1.

    by Ed Marston, Jul 24, 1995

  • BLM union comes to Moab

    BLM employees vote to unionize because of management and morale problems.

    by Christopher Smith, Jan 24, 1994
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