"The management of public lands in the West is a matter of long-standing and oft-contentious debates. The government must balance the interests of a variety of

Water and land interrelate in surprising and ambiguous ways, and riparian zones, where land and water meet, have effects far outside their boundaries. Using the

Livestock grazing is the most widespread commercial use of federal public lands. The image of a herd grazing on Bureau of Land Management or U.S. Forest Service

Throughout the history of the United States, the concepts of “land” and “the West” have fired the American imagination and fueled controversy. The essay

The federal government owns roughly 640 million acres, about 28% of the 2.27 billion acres of land in the United States. Four agencies administer 608.9 million