Topic: Bureau Of Land Management

Salazar orders conservation focus for 27M acres of nationally significant public lands in WestInterior Secretary Ken Salazar is ordering federal land managers to consider conservation as the primary focus of some 27 million acres of public lands in the West.Environmental groups had ...

U.S. National Park Vacations

National Parks are areas set aside for natural preservation . The United States usually puts emphasis on the preservation of wildlife and land. They cover everything from the boyhood homes of Presidents to one of the most popular destinations the Grand Canyon ...

Expected Rule Change Would Benefit Bicycling in National Parks

The article reports on the importance of the National Park Service (NPS) rule change on the mountain bicycling in Colorado. The plan of the NPS to revise its policies due to the urge of the International Mountain Bicycling Association (IMBA) will allow ...

Land Use 101

" We've all seen the signs at one time or another, and sightings seem to have become more frequent in recent years. The Clean Water Act has been used as a litigation tool to limit the activity of off-highway vehicles on public ...

Wilderness U.S.A.

In 1964 President LBJ signed into law the Wilderness Act which preserved vast tracts of land for future generations by giving them federal protection. Much of the land was already in federally administered lands, but the signing of the Wilderness Act tightened ...
If you have been full timing in your recreational vehicle, it would be natural for you to pick that as your final resting spot. When you select a spot on BLM land for your ashes, pick one away from any spot that ...
To be honest, I didn't even know what BLM meant until I moved to 6 years ago. I soon discovered, however, that there was a wonderful federal government office right here under our noses.Prineville is the county seat for Crook County and ...
The United States has divided up its federal public land through a variety of environmental land management agencies, primarily within the Department of the Interior and the Department of Agriculture. Though certain areas on BLM lands can attain standing as Areas of ...

What Is the Sagebrush Rebellion?

The Sagebrush Rebellion was a political movement centered on the use of federal lands in the western portions of the United States. Ideally, the Sagebrush Rebellion attempted to bring federal land under state management or to allow purchase by the private sector.In ...

Public Lands

Public Lands, in the United States, land owned by the federal government. Second in acreage is the Department of Agriculture, whose Forest Service administers about 30 per cent of the federally owned land. Among the uses for which public land may be ...
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