Growth & Planning
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Book Reviews
Trail-crew volunteers
The Colorado Fourteeners Initiative is looking for trail-crew volunteers for weekends on Mount Harvard and Mount Bierstadt in Colorado.
by Staff, Jul 05, 1999 -
News
Court nixes land exchange
In Washington, a federal appeals court has ruled that the controversial Huckleberry Mountain land exchange needs more study.
by Lynne Bama, Jun 07, 1999 -
News
The new voice at BLM
Dallas lawyer Thomas A. Fry III is appointed acting director of BLM.
by Stephen Stuebner, Apr 12, 1999 -
News
Tree lovers are willing to pay
An environmental group is raising money to buy and preserve the Loomis State Forest in northern Washington state.
by Rebecca Clarren, Mar 29, 1999 -
News
Land deal links desert parks
A California land trust will help put 500,000 acres of land linking Joshua Tree National Park and the Mojave National Preserve into public ownership.
by Juniper Davis, Mar 29, 1999 -
Related Stories
A muckraker throws a well-aimed wrench
Public-lands watchdog John Jolley's opposition to a controversial land swap involving Wyoming's Bighorn Mountains didn't halt the deal, but it did change the way land swaps are now handled in the state.
by Jason Marsden, Mar 29, 1999 -
Feature
Wheeling and dealing
Land swaps, in which the Forest Service and BLM trade odd parcels of public land for ecologically valuable private land, have a long history in the West, but some say the trades too often profit land spectators at the expense of the public and the land.
by Lynne Bama, Mar 29, 1999 -
Feature
The ranch restored: An overworked land comes back to life
In an often bumpy process, the Trout Creek Mountain Working Group tries to bring together environmentalists, ranchers and BLM staffers to find a way to restore the badly overgrazed landscape of southeastern Oregon.
by Tom Knudson, Mar 01, 1999 -
News
Fun-hogs to replace cows in a Utah monument
On Utah's new Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, a conservation deal will move cattle out of the canyons most popular with hikers and boats, especially along the Escalante River.
by Lisa Church, Feb 01, 1999 -
Book Reviews
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Volunteers are needed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, from trail crew workers to campground hosts.
by Staff, Jan 18, 1999 -
News
Agencies seek quieter public meetings
At public hearings on BLM's draft management plan for Utah's Grand Staircase-Escalante Nat'l Monument, the agency has introduced new "town meeting" format which limits comments to written rather than spoken - a change activists deem a blow to democracy.
by Greg Hanscom, Jan 18, 1999 -
Book Reviews
Land Trusts
A census conducted by the Land Trust Alliance, based in Washington, D.C., reveals a rise in the number of land trusts in the Rocky Mountain West.
by Staff, Dec 07, 1998 -
Book Reviews
Trading away the West
A series of newspaper articles from the Seattle Times scrutinizes recent land trades in the West.
by Dustin Solberg, Oct 26, 1998 -
Book Reviews
More than pretty parks
"Beyond the National Parks," edited by Mary Tisdale and Bibi Booth, is a guide to BLM public lands in the West.
by Michelle Nijhuis, Aug 17, 1998 -
Book Reviews
We can take it
Veterans of the 1930s' Civilian Conservation Corps hold reunions this summer.
by Jennifer Chergo, Aug 03, 1998






