Growth & Planning
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Book Reviews
Fees please visitors
Land-management agencies say that the new user fees on public land are an "unqualified success" supported by the visitors who are paying them.
by Staff, Jun 22, 1998 -
News
To burn or not to burn
The Burning Man arts festival has asked the BLM for permission for another desert arts gathering to be held Labor Day in the Nevada desert.
by J T Thomas, May 11, 1998 -
Feature
Oil clashes with elk in the Book Cliffs
Utah's remote and little known Book Cliffs area seemed ripe for preservation under an innovative, locally grown initiative - until oilman Oscar Wyatt stepped in to challenge it.
by Michelle Nijhuis, Apr 13, 1998 -
Book Reviews
Colorado BLM going wild?
The BLM announces that an additional 167,000 acres of western Colorado's roadless public lands are eligible for wilderness status.
by Staff, Mar 02, 1998 -
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Counties want to develop public land
In Washington's Skamania County, pressure is building to get public lands in the Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area back into private hands.
by Steve Stuebner, Feb 16, 1998 -
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Managing scenery, wildlife and humans
Idaho's Sawtooth National Recreation Area has long seen trouble between the Forest Service and private inholders, and manager Paul Ries is on the hot seat for trying to protect the area.
by Emily Miller, Feb 16, 1998 -
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On the offensive: developer Tom Chapman
Developer Thomas E. Chapman has earned notoriety - and a lot of money - buying, selling and trading wilderness inholdings in Colorado.
by Kelly Hearn, Feb 16, 1998 -
Feature
Private rights vs. public lands: Thousands of inholdingscreate conflicts inside federal lands
A ranching family's desire to develop a road to an inholding in Arizona's Arrastra Mounain Wilderness is a microcosm of the huge and unwieldy problem of inholdings on public lands throughout the West.
by Stephen Stuebner, Feb 16, 1998 -
News
Haggling over the Grand Staircase-Escalante
Conoco gives up on oil well in Utah's Grand Staircase, but the state School Trust Lands board is insisting that its land - checkerboarded through the monument - must be managed to earn money for the schools, and that may involve oil and gas drilling.
by Greg Hanscom, Jan 19, 1998 -
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Barbara Sutteer: Fees draw fire from two public-land users
National Park Service staffer Barbara Sutteer, in her own words, discusses Indian feelings about user fees on public lands.
by Peter Chilson, Oct 13, 1997 -
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Guy Clark: Fees draw fire from two public-land users
Colorado hunter Guy Clark, in his own words, discusses his opposition to user fees on the West's public lands.
by Peter Chilson, Oct 13, 1997 -
Essays
Greens, as usual, are easy to bait
Recreational user fees would do harm by introducing the profit motive to natural resource management.
by Steve Hinchman, Oct 13, 1997 -
Essays
It's time for the public to pay up
User fees for Western recreationists on public lands are overdue and will create an incentive to protect these lands from exploitation.
by Terry L. Anderson, Oct 13, 1997 -
News
Mountain bikers in Moab pay to ride
The Moab area BLM started charging recreationists user fees several years ago, when mountain biking in Utah began to grow out of control.
by Greg Hanscom, Oct 13, 1997 -
News
Paying to play in the Sawtooths
For the first time ever, it costs to hike in Idaho's Sawtooth National Recreation Area, but many users are forgetting or refusing to pay the $2 a day fee.
by Shea Andersen, Oct 13, 1997






