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    From rocks to pot

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

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    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.

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    A "Holy Land' is saved in Montana

    The "Gallatin Range Consolidation Act of 1993' land swap appeases loggers, pleases environmentalists and protects elk, grizzly and Yellowstone cutthroat trout.

  • Book Reviews

    Ruinous roads

    The Department of the Interior is writing new rules to interpret an 1866 mining law concerning road-building.

  • Book Reviews

    Let the public through

    An upcoming vote on a Salt Lake County ordinance could help ensure access to public lands.

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    Shooting in the West

    BLM Director Jim Baca proposes new regulations for filming on public lands.

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    At Utah's Bonneville Salt Flats it's a race for brine

    The Bureau of Land Management agrees to add salt to Bonneville's receding Salt Flats.

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    Poaching prehistoric fish

    Fossil poachers mar the landscape in a search for a prehistoric fish.

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    Hage confined to home

    A judgment on tree-cutting in Toiyabe National Forest lands rancher Wayne Hage in jail.

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    County thinks again

    Lincoln County, N.M., drops its land swap suit against the BLM.

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    Once a road always a road?

    An1866 mining law ensures access to public lands.

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    BLM reinstates a long pause for filmmakers

    A new BLM moviemaking policy creates controversy in Moab.

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    BLM manager in Wyoming gets trampled

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

  • Book Reviews

    Flawed in Oregon

    The Wilderness Society blasts the BLM for management plans for Oregon forests.

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    Hikers are fenced out of wilderness

    A housing development blocks access to Arizona's Coronado National Forest.

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