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Phelps Dodge wants to open a big copper mine near Safford,
Ariz., but some critics say that the company’s planned land
swap is a rip-off, and that the mine may have harmful environmental
impacts
by Mitch Tobin,
Jul 16, 2008
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A list of the wilderness inventory areas and
citizens’ wilderness proposal areas being offered for oil and
gas leasing by the BLM includes lands in New Mexico, Wyoming,
Colorado and Utah
by Matt Jenkins,
Jan 19, 2004
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In northwestern New Mexico, the Coalition for New Mexico
Wilderness is working with Zia Pueblo to preserve a rugged patch of
the state as the Ojito Wilderness Area
by Joshua Garrett-Davis,
Jan 19, 2004
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The kind of democratic dialogue that creates viable
wilderness proposals is impossible in the current wilderness of
power politics
by Paul Larmer,
Jan 19, 2004
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The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints gains
control of the Wyoming historic site of Martin’s Cove, where
Mormon immigrants died 150 years ago
by Christopher Smith,
Dec 22, 2003
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The Bureau of Land Management is studying the prospects
for developing wind energy on Western public lands
by Jodi Peterson,
Nov 24, 2003
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When President Clinton established Oregon’s
Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument three years ago, he told the BLM
to study grazing impacts, but now funding for the study has been
cut, while grazing continues unabated
by Kathie Durbin,
Nov 10, 2003
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Seabiscuit moves to Colorado; black bear vs. David
Letterman; Hanford’s radioactive wasp nests; Helen Thomas vs.
Brigham Young University; BLM ranger Dick Godwin vs. desert junk
and shot-up appliances
by Betsy Marston,
Oct 27, 2003
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From Conquest to Conservation: Our Public Lands Legacy by
Michael P. Dombeck, Christopher A. Wood and Jack E. Williams takes
a hopeful view of the ecological future of the nation’s
public lands
by April Reese,
Oct 27, 2003
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Montana Congressman Denny Rehberg, R, wants to yank
private lands out of the Upper Missouri River Breaks National
Monument, but some local ranchers fear his bill will just make it
harder for them to sell their property.
by Mark Matthews,
Oct 27, 2003
