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The Tortoise and the Cattle Rancher
The Progressive reveals that the federal administration has failed to keep its promise to protect the threatened desert tortoise in the California Desert Conservation Area. The story describes how the Bureau of Land Management consistently has done nothing "to stop cattle grazing on lands essential to the survival" of the tortoise. One of the findings is that "California's roster of endangered species is growing rapidly" with "an average of twenty species per year for the last ten years."
Tags: BLM; politics; The Center for Biological Diversity; environment; the Sierra Club; Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility
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Huge Land Swap Proposed
The Spokesman-Review's "series breaks the story of how a land broker was secretly planning to trade 2 million acres of public land in Idaho - national forests and BLM land - to logging, mining and ranching interests. It shows how federal land managers, such as the BLM, were kept in the dark, and explores the background of the company pushing the trades. Finally, the series shows how the land broker purposefully deceived the public about the value of an earlier land trade - that it holds up as one of its finest accomplishments - and made millions of dollars at public expense..."
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KGW TV's investigation found that the state office of the Bureau of Land Management was wasting millions of dollars on a fancy plane that only flew executives to meetings. The BLM cliamed that the plane was needed to fight fires and for law enforcement. After the story aired, the plane was sold to a private operator after the Inspector General's investigation found that the BLM was wasting taxpayer funds, May 1994.
Tags: OR Dooris Charter Finance Expenditures Waste tape 19 pages
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The new gold rush
U.S. News and World Report looks at the 19th-century federal law that allows mining companies to mine federal lands for five dollars an acre leads to apocalyptic ecological degradation and the cheating of billions of dollars from the American taxpayer; finds that 31 percent of the federal land mined and 41 percent of the mineral rights are owned by foreign companies. * Bureau of Land Management BLM
Tags: Bureau of Land Management; environment; ecology; natural resources