[PDF] Bureau Of Land Management And Forest Service Lands In Wyoming eBook

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File Size : 39,81 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Environmental impact statements
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The Wyoming Greater Sage-Grouse Proposed Land Use Plan (LUP) Amendments and Final Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) has been prepared by the U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service (Forest Service) with input from 26 cooperating agencies. This document is considering amendments to six BLM and three Forest Service LUPs to address the management of Greater Sage-Grouse habitat in Wyoming. The final EIS describes and analyzes five alternatives for managing Greater Sage-Grouse habitat on approximately 16 million acres of BLM-administered and National Forest System lands and approximately 23 million acres of BLM-administered subsurface federal mineral estate ... The Proposed LUP Amendments incorporates the guidance from the Washington Office Instruction Memorandum No. 2012-044 (12/27/2011) BLM National Greater Sage-Grouse Land Use Planning Strategy (WO IM No. 2012-044), the Wyoming Governor's Executive Order 2011-5 (WY EO 2011-5), and additional management based on the NTT [Sage-Grouse National Technical Team] recommendations ... Major planning issues addressed include energy and minerals, lands and realty (including rights-of-way), wildfire, vegetation management (including invasive species and conifer encroachment), livestock, grazing, recreation, travel management, and socioeconomics.

Author : Christopher Ketcham
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Page : 434 pages
File Size : 27,92 MB
Release : 2019
Category : History
ISBN : 0735220980

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"The public lands of the western United States comprise some 450 million acres of grassland, steppe land, canyons, forests, and mountains. It's an American commons, and it is under assault as never before. Journalist Christopher Ketcham has been documenting the confluence of commercial exploitation and governmental misconduct in this region for over a decade. His revelatory book takes the reader on a journey across these last wild places, to see how capitalism is killing our great commons. Ketcham begins in Utah, revealing the environmental destruction caused by unregulated public lands livestock grazing, and exposing rampant malfeasance in the federal land management agencies, who have been compromised by the profit-driven livestock and energy interests they are supposed to regulate. He then turns to the broad effects of those corrupt politics on wildlife. He tracks the Department of Interior's failure to implement and enforce the Endangered Species Act--including its stark betrayal of protections for the grizzly bear and the sage grouse--and investigates the destructive behavior of U.S. Wildlife Services in their shocking mass slaughter of animals that threaten the livestock industry. Along the way, Ketcham talks with ecologists, biologists, botanists, former government employees, whistleblowers, grassroots environmentalists and other citizens who are fighting to protect the public domain for future generations. This Land is a colorful muckraking journey--part Edward Abbey, part Upton Sinclair--exposing the rot in American politics that is rapidly leading to the sell-out of our national heritage"--