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  • Oil drillers get 'one-stop shopping' at no extra cost

    A provision in the new energy bill promises funding to speed up the oil and gas permitting process in BLM offices – without costing the industry an extra penny

    by Emma Brown, Nov 14, 2005

  • Showdown on the Nevada range

    The Sagebrush Rebellion smolders when the BLM impounds and tries to auction off cattle owned by ranchers Ben Colvin and Jack Vogt for refusing to pay for grazing allotments.

    by Jon Christensen, Aug 27, 2001

  • Grand Teton rancher gives up grazing lease

    Wyoming rancher Brad Mead gives up his 2,000-acre grazing lease in Grand Teton National Park.

    by Jack Clinton, Sep 24, 2001

  • A refreshing view

    In "The View from Bald Hill: Thirty Years in an Arizona Grassland," biologist Carl and Jane Bock describe their field work in the Appleton-Whittell Ranch, where no grazing has occurred since the 1960s.

    by Ali Macalady, Dec 03, 2001
  • The GOAT Blog

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    by Emily Steinmetz, Jul 19, 2008
  • The GOAT Blog

    No entrance fees

    ...for a limited time only.

    by Jeff Chen, Jun 03, 2009

  • BLM director forced to resign

    Martha Hahn is forced out of her job as Idaho state director of the BLM, largely because she backed grazing cutbacks in the Owyhee Mountains.

    by Stephen Stuebner, Mar 18, 2002

  • BLM boosts winter drilling

    The BLM wants to allow oil and gas companies to drill near Pinedale, Wyo., in wintertime, and some conservationists think the change may actually help declining mule deer populations

    by Emma Brown, Dec 12, 2005

  • Energy companies score massive refund checks

    A federal judge has ordered the government to buy back offshore oil and gas leases that energy companies say can’t be developed, leading some to wonder if the BLM will have to do the same with leases in potential wilderness areas

    by Matt Jenkins, Dec 26, 2005

  • Public acres for sale

    President Bush revives a proposal to sell off public lands managed by the BLM and the Forest Service as part of his 2007 budget

    by Brett Wilkison, Mar 06, 2006
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