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Results for keyword: Land Swaps

  • Is the great federal land debate over?

    The writer, a public policy professor in Idaho, warns that the impulse to sell off or trade public lands is only temporarily blocked

    by John Freemuth, Aug 14, 2006

  • GAO blasts land exchanges

    A report from the Government Accounting Office says that land exchanges by the Forest Service and BLM are rarely in the public's best interest.

    by Kayley Mendenhall, Sep 11, 2000

  • Another compromise plan falls flat

    In Utah, a huge swap of state and federal lands in the western part of the state falls through when environmentalists and anti-wilderness locals object.

    by Tim Westby, May 22, 2000

  • Baca Ranch buy-out has strings attached

    The deals made to get support from Sen. Pete Domenici, R-NM, for buying the Valles Caldera or Baca Ranch in northern New Mexico have some conservationists troubled that too much will be lost in the process.

    by Robyn Morrison, May 08, 2000

  • Court nixes land exchange

    In Washington, a federal appeals court has ruled that the controversial Huckleberry Mountain land exchange needs more study.

    by Lynne Bama, Jun 07, 1999

  • A muckraker throws a well-aimed wrench

    Public-lands watchdog John Jolley's opposition to a controversial land swap involving Wyoming's Bighorn Mountains didn't halt the deal, but it did change the way land swaps are now handled in the state.

    by Jason Marsden, Mar 29, 1999

  • Wheeling and dealing

    Land swaps, in which the Forest Service and BLM trade odd parcels of public land for ecologically valuable private land, have a long history in the West, but some say the trades too often profit land spectators at the expense of the public and the land.

    by Lynne Bama, Mar 29, 1999
 

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