A
New Name and
Misssion for the
Bureau of Land
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Bureau
of Land Management Grazing Permittee Information A federal court ordered BLM to tender the names and addresses of certain grazing permittees to conservation organizations, after finding the information was key to understanding the agency's grazing program. |
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Great
Basin Restoration Congress may consider legislation and other mechanisms to restore Sagebrush Sea infested with weeds and devastated by wildfire in recent years. |
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Owyhee
Initiative Implementation Act Congress enacted legislation in 2009 to designate new wilderness and Wild and Scenic Rivers in the Owyhee Country in Idaho. While the final bill was acceptable, the initial iteration of the legislation would have done more harm than good. |
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Bureau
of Land Management Grazing Permit-Loans For at least 75 years, federal grazing permittees, with the aid of lending institutions and the tacit complicity of the federal government, have collateralized their publicly owned grazing permits along with their ranches and livestock to finance their private grazing operations on public lands. |
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Federal
Grazing Fees Grazing fees paid by public lands ranchers do not begin to cover the cost of livestock grazing on Bureau of Land Management and Forest Service lands. |
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Bureau
of Land Management Vegetation Management Plan The BLM approved a poorly conceived invasive species/ "vegetation management" plan to spray invasive weeds ("noxious weed control"), log trees and chain shrubs ("fuels reduction") across agency lands in seventeen western states. |