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  • 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

  • Arizona BLM punishes "bad bureaucrat'

    BLM hydrologist is censured after charging that groundwater pumping could harm the nation's first national conservation area along the San Pedro River.

    by Ernie Atencio, Paul Larmer, Nov 01, 1993

  • Babbitt brings in new brass

    President Clinton and Interior Secretary Babbitt remake the Interior Dept., appointing Patrick Shea to head BLM; Jamie Rappaport Clark to head Fish & Wildlife; Kathy Karpan to the Office of Surface Mining, and Robert Stanton to direct the Park Service.

    by Greg Hanscom, Aug 18, 1997

  • Battered borderlands

    As the number of illegal immigrants crossing the Sonoran Desert into Arizona rises, the Border Patrol is faced with the need to protect a fragile environment at the same time that it polices the border.

    by Rebecca Clarren, Sep 27, 1999

  • BLM manager in Wyoming gets trampled

    BLM veteran Darrell Short is transferred after speaking out on range conditions.

    by Adam Duerk, Feb 22, 1993

  • BLM union comes to Moab

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

    by Christopher Smith, Jan 24, 1994

  • BLM: The Next Generation

    Listed officials of the BLM

    by Staff, Dec 12, 1994

  • Buy them some body armor

    Like their military compatriots in Iraq, the American civil servants charged with managing our public lands, water and wildlife lack adequate funding, back-up, or the moral support of their higher-ups

    by Greg Hanscom, Dec 20, 2004

  • From rocks to pot

    Two Bureau of Land Management employees are arrested for growing marijuana on BLM land.

    by Staff, Nov 01, 1993

  • From Washington, D.C., comes a new spoils system

    Through its push for privatization, the Bush administration is quietly engineering a corporate takeover of the federal government – one that will have harsh consequences for land management, national parks, scientific integrity and workforce diversity

    by Jeff Ruch, Sep 15, 2003
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