A New Name and
Misssion for the
Bureau of Land
Management








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Bureau of Land
Management

   
Great Basin Restoration
Congress may consider legislation and other mechanisms to restore Sagebrush Sea infested with weeds and devastated by wildfire in recent years.
 
Owyhee Initiative Implementation Act
Congress is considering public lands legislation that would designate Wilderness and Wild and Scenic Rivers in the Owyhee Country in Idaho. But the proposd bill may do more harm than good.
 
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.
 
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.
 
Bureau of Land Management Vegetation Management Plan
The Bureau of Land Management is developing a new and 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.