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    No new roads

    Interior Department proposes new rules for highway-building on public lands.

  • News

    City Slickers should leave wilderness rough

    Movie makers leave land damaged after filming City Slickers II

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    Utah kids benefit from state land reform

    State land management reforms in Utah raise money for schools.

  • Feature

    'Unranchers' reach for West's state lands

    Conservationists discover state lands and bid against ranchers to lease them.

  • Book Reviews

    Millions for furniture

    Federal audit shows $5.4 million intended for reforestation to have been misspent.

  • News

    A spinning door

    Former BLM official Joe Hall is hired as consultant by Northern Colorado Water Conservancy District.

  • Feature

    Babbitt is trying to nationalize the BLM

    Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt discusses at the first-ever BLM summit plans to revolutionize the BLM.

  • Book Reviews

    A leaking public lands fund

    Groups urge better use of Land and Water Conservation Fund.

  • News

    South Pass reconsidered

    Wyoming environmental group gets Bureau of Land Management to reconsider the route of a natural gas pipeline over historic South Pass.

  • News

    Wise-use ordinances suffer legal setback

    Boundary County land-use plan found unconstitutional.

  • News

    Baca at the barricades

    Jim Baca faces removal as BLM director.

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    BLM union comes to Moab

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

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    The return of Tom Horn?

    The Tom Horn Society claims responsibility for the bombing of a BLM office in Reno.

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    J'accuse in Oregon

    The Hells Canyon Preservation Council claims the Forest Service is guilty of desecrating petroglyphs by building roads to Pittsburg Landing.

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    Office bombed in Nevada

    A bomb explodes at the Bureau of Land Management office in Reno.

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