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  • A fee-dodging retiree forces a national forest to rethink access charges

    A fee-dodging retiree forces a national forest to rethink access charges

    A retired geophysicist named Jim Smith successfully challenges Arizona's Coconino National Forest on access fees.

  • The BLM's conservation experiment

    The BLM's conservation experiment

    Interior Secretary Ken Salazar tells the BLM to get serious about managing the National Landscape Conservation System.

  • High Country Views: Anticline deer decline

    High Country Views: Anticline deer decline

    Emilene Ostlind talks with former federal biologist Rollin Sparrowe about energy development on the Pinedale Anticline and its impact on wildlife.

  • Audio: The joy of CX

    Assistant editor Sarah Gilman explains why we should care about categorical exclusions.

  • Who’ll clean up when the party’s over?

    Who’ll clean up when the party’s over?

    There are efforts to reclaim oil and gas drilling sites, but many fear it’s too little, too late.

  • The great giveaway

    The great giveaway

    The BLM hurriedly releases six proposed resource management plans for 11 million acres of public land in Utah, leaving little time to respond.

  • Roan on the auction block

    Roan on the auction block

    The BLM auctioned leases on 54,631 acres in Western Colorado to the natural gas industry for a record $114 million.

  • Betting on the house

    In Las Vegas, the Bureau of Land Management offers up cheap land for affordable housing.

  • Public lands precedent?

    The Bureau of Land Management pulls parcels from a Utah lease sale -- but the action may not mean what conservationists think it does.

  • Free range

    The Bureau of Land Management exempts grazing permit renewals and other activities from environmental oversight.

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