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Citizen Democracy Versus a Strip Mine
Borrowing a tactic from the Occupy movement, citizens had to get creative at a recent BLM meeting to gather public comments on a proposed strip mine near Bryce Canyon National Park because public comments were not being heard.
Wildlands Are Your Lands
Woody Guthrie put it best when he sang, “This land is your land.” Until, that is, someone steals it from you.
Rebooting America’s Outdoors
It’s a famous photo. It was during this three-night camping trip in Yosemite that Muir persuaded Roosevelt that his beloved Yosemite should be a national park.
7 Things Glenn Beck Doesn’t Know About US Public Lands Policy
Multiple agencies with diverse missions and overlapping interests mean management of public lands in the U.S. can get pretty confusing. But at their very root, public lands all have at least one thing in common: they are all public.
