Part of the problem, of course, is located in the Bureau of Land Management.
The Bureau of Land Management also gets involved, although there's nary a stick of firewood within 20 miles of the launch site.
Rural farmers have now pressed the Bureau of Land Management to expend the public consultation period for the planned pipeline until the beginning of August.
Ranches can be a patchwork, with deeded acreage, leased acreage and acreage where the Bureau of Land Management or another investor owns the mineral rights.
Depending on who owns the land, the Bureau of Land Management, the Forest Service, the National Park Service or state wildlife commissions may all have jurisdiction.
"Our first fear is that the Bureau of Land Management has such a poor history of land management, " said Scott Silver, director of the Oregon-based Wild Wilderness organization.
Sit down for breakfast, and you can eavesdrop on the tug-of-war between private and public interests in the county, where the Bureau of Land Management controls 4 million acres.
The proposed designation, called National Landscape Monuments, would give the Bureau of Land Management a new role in land preservation, one that has traditionally gone to the National Park Service.
The 275-megawatt project, called Centinela Solar, received the nod from the U.S. Department of Interior to put transmission lines on 19 acres managed by the Bureau of Land Management.
In 1996, Congress directed the Bureau of Land Management, the agency in charge of the Reserve, to sell off helium in order to recoup some of the costs associated with its purchase.
Referring to the same tests, the Bureau of Land Management said that better testing would be needed to reach accurate conclusions, and the U.S. Geological Survey rebuked the EPA for using poor scientific practices.
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In terms of supply, CLD recently won two federal coal leases with roughly 407 million tons of mineable coal (as estimated by the Bureau of Land Management) at a rate of about 85 cents per ton.
His ongoing effort to stretch six miles of fabric over the Arkansas River has proven even more epic, proving so contentious that locals recently took the Bureau of Land Management to court for sanctioning it.
Solar Wind Energy (which used to be called Clean Wind Energy Tower, Inc.) is negotiating for a lease from the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) for a 1, 700-acre parcel of flat, empty desert on the Mexican border, right next to an Air Force bombing range.
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Big Flat sits in the middle of the Bureau of Land Management's 64, 000-acre King Range National Conservation Area, a patch of northern California so rugged that the engineers who built Highway 1, which hugs the coast from San Diego to Oregon, took the road 30 miles inland here to avoid it.
But the fiscal cliff threatens energy development as well as energy use the DOE would lose funding for its own research, plus grants and loans for energy innovation in the private sector, while the Bureau of Land Management would likely be less able to study the environmental impact of things like siting solar farms or leasing oil rights.
The mountain's rawness and the risk of avalanches have led the federal Bureau of Land Management to permit only 80 guided skiers per day on Silverton's 1, 600 acres. (Vail, which is 5, 300 acres, can see 21, 000 skiers on a busy day.) The slots tend to sell out several months ahead.
To the west he looks out on mesas for 40 miles, and from his north-facing windows he occasionally catches glimpses of wild mustangs roaming the hills of thousands of acres owned by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management.
Between 2007 and 2009, a solar land rush in California and the desert Southwest resulted in scores of developers putting lease claims on more than a million acres of property controlled by the United States Bureau of Land Management.
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Well, maybe not, according to a letter of protest from three environmental organizations to the U.S. Bureau of Land Management over new Department of Interior rules intended to streamline approval for solar energy projects on hundreds of thousands of acres of federal land.
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Three national environmental groups on Friday sued the U.S. Bureau of Land Management over its approval of a planned NextEra Energy Resources wind farm in the Tehachapi region of California that state and federal wildlife officials had warned threatens the critically endangered California condor.
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The U.S. Bureau of Land Management is set to sell land for both projects when environmental impact studies come back--probably in April.
The U.S. Bureau of Land Management has also failed to solidify any scientific data that would lead to harsher safety or environmental regulations.
Dean Crabbs, Alaskabased Federal Bureau of Land Management special agent, estimates the public may have lost hundreds of millions in these scams.
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