Bureau of Land Management
The Sage Grouse Isn't Going to Get Endangered Species Protections
The Obama administration's decision not to list the dwindling wild bird as officially endangered aimed to strike a balance between environmentalists and energy interests, but may end up being challenged in court by both.
The Oath Keepers Are Ready for War with the Federal Government
The heavily armed citizen militia joined Oregon gold miners in a land dispute with the federal government that could end in a bloodbath.
Colorado's Great Divide: Oil and the Environment
Colorado's Thompson Divide — one of the largest remaining roadless areas in the West — is caught in a bureaucratic stranglehold that pits industry against community and government agency against government agency.
Why Won’t Our 'Environmental President' Stop Fracking on Public Land?
It has become increasingly fashionable to credit President Barack Obama for doing all he possibly can to combat climate change. The only problem: it's not true.
Here's Why Republicans Should Not Be Getting Into Burning Man
Tax-hater and Congressional bully Grover Norquist just announced that he's attending Burning Man, which is ironic, because the festival is about as bureaucratic as the US government itself.
Cliven Bundy Is America's Nightmare and the Republicans' Problem
While the state’s rights rallying cry has taken different forms, the laws that conservatives have opposed have always been related to race.
Cliven Bundy's Racism Is a Problem for Republicans
The rancher's fight with federal land agents comes with a side of racist wingnut.
An Armed Standoff in Nevada Is Only the Beginning for America’s Right-Wing Militias
The BLM took matters into its own hands and started seizing cattle illegally grazing on government property. Things then went downhill.
The Bundy Ranch Standoff Was Only the Beginning for America's Right-Wing Militias
An armed showdown in the desert became a proxy war between the paranoid right and the federal government.