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    We can take it

    Veterans of the 1930s' Civilian Conservation Corps hold reunions this summer.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

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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.

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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.

  • Essays

    Greens, as usual, are easy to bait

    Recreational user fees would do harm by introducing the profit motive to natural resource management.

  • 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.

  • 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.

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