Bureau of Land Management

Assault Rifle With Ammo, 40 Pounds of Pot Among Items Found in Clean-Up of Federal Desert Lands Near Interstate 8

An assault rifle with loaded magazines and 40 pounds of marijuana are just some of the objects found during a clean-up of federal lands near the smuggling corridor of Interstate 8.Dennis Godfrey, spokesman for the U.S. Bureau of Land Management, says he'll try to find out exactly what type of weapon ... More >>

Two Thousand Acres of Desert in Southwest Valley to be Destroyed for Solar Plant -- So Why are Conservationists Happy?

​ The federal government just approved the destruction of 2,000 acres of Sonoran Desert land in the southwest Valley for a new solar plant, but conservationists aren't complaining.This time, anyway.Thomas Hulen, executive director of Friends of the Sonoran Desert National Monument, was one of ... More >>

Five Best Ways to Start an Arizona Forest Fire

fortressofbaileytude.comDon't be an idiot. Just pay attention to what Smokey says and everything will be alright.​Fire crews are having a hell of a time putting out the second largest forest fire in Arizona history, which is currently burning in eastern Arizona. So, naturally, we've made a list of ... More >>

Dead Body Armed With Fully Loaded AK-47 Found in Vekol Valley

​The dead body of a man was found laying on top of a fully loaded assault rifle in the Vekol Valley earlier this week, and because the man was Hispanic, authorities, per usual, are going on the assumption that he's an illegal immigrant.About 9:40 a.m. on Monday, a ranger from the U.S. Bureau of La ... More >>

Ask a Mexican on Sonoran Trash and What's for Dinner

SB 1070 Field Day: Judge Susan Bolton May Enjoin Law in Part

Governor Brewer, outside federal court ThursdayIn a day filled with protests, arrests, legal arguments, an appearance by the governor, and at least one certified neo-Nazi, the most significant developments in the SB 1070 saga happened within the Sandra Day O'Connor U.S. Courthouse in Phoenix, n ... More >>

Ask a Mexican on Following Mexico's Example

Blood's Thicker Than Water: As Thousands Die in the Arizona Desert as a Result of U.S. Border Policy, an Army of Activists Intervenes

Tourists Creating "Fat-asses" in Arizona Mining Town

www.wildhorsepreservation.com​The U.S. Bureau of Land Management has a message for Arizona tourists: You're creating fat-asses.Literally.The bureau is concerned with visitors to the town of Oatman, where they say tourists are over-feeding the town's wild burros, making them unhealthy, and...well.. ... More >>

Solar Energy Snub: Feds Shortchange Arizona in Solar Study

  ​ The feds are going to study 670,000 acres of Bureau of Land Management land in six western states -- but only 16,000 of those acres are in Arizona. What an oversight! Those gloomy skies over Washington D.C. must have dimmed bureaucrats' minds. It's typically said that we get about ... More >>

Hot Links: Taxes, Fires, and Strange Beasts

Arizona Governor Jan Brewer's still pushing her budget-rescue plan to state lawmakers, which includes a proposed temporary tax hike. Legislators haven't exactly received Brewer's plan with open arms, and she says their reluctance may delay a special spring election which puts approval for the tax hi ... More >>

Can Maynard James Keenan Put Arizona Wine on the Map?

Broken

The system that serves tiny children with disabilities is nowhere near fixed, after years of trying on the governor's watch

Deal Breaker

Congressman Rick Renzi and the very strange coincidence

Big Bad Developer

George Johnson is quickly becoming the most notorious developer in Arizona

Complaints Congressional and Correctional

Letters from the week of August 8, 2002

Land Sakes!

Clinton Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt lays claim to an environmental legacy. Too bad it's a monumental disappointment.

Bob's Hope

After a decade of legal battles, the unsinkable Robert Burns is once again shaping his dream metropolis of Sun Valley

Road Warrior

Ranch owner's feud with feds has been dragging on for 10 years

Cold Shoulder

State gives feds the brush-off on open-space preservation plan

Babbitt's Secret Growth-Control Plan

While the state and the Sierra Club jockey to curb urban expansion, the Secretary of the Interior is quietly pushing his own proposal. We've got the maps.

Wildlife Disservice

Someone is shooting endangered Mexican gray wolves. The government's flawed reintroduction program helped put them in the crosshairs.

Blood, Sweat and Steers

Ranchers who run cattle on State Trust Lands may soon have competition for the publicly subsidized grazing leases they've always enjoyed. But not every rancher is getting fat off the land.

Government by Litigation

Increasingly, public officials ignore laws they're paid to uphold. Citizens and interest groups regularly drag these same bureaucrats into court, trying to ensure that the laws of the land are enforced. But now even the courts, once bastions of authority,

Burn the Man!

Playing with fire at the 1997 Burning Man festival

Boom, Boom on the Range

Where endangered Sonoran pronghorn antelope play under the roar of U.S. Air Force jets on live-fire bombing exercises

Freaks in the Desert

Strange days and fiery nights at the 1996 Burning Man Festival

Babbitt's Interior

As the White House flips and flops, Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt takes his environmental losses and victories in stride. Is his stoicism a necessary virtue or a political vice?

Kid Pics for the week

Kid Pics for the week

GARDENING BACK TO WILDERNESSBOTH ENVIRONMENTALISTS AND LOGGERS EMBRACE WALLY COVINGTON'S RESEARCH--BUT DO THEY SEE THE FOREST FOR THE TREES?

DIGGING BURROS

NO MINER CONSIDERATION

A CANADIAN MINING COMPANY WANTS TO DIG A 300-ACRE HOLE BEHIND DONNA GOODALE'S HOUSE. ALTHOUGH MOST ALL OF THE GOVERNMENT AGENCIES INVOLVED THINK IT'S A TERRIBLE IDEA, THEY MAY NOT BE ABLE TO STOP THE EXCAVATION.

SYMINGTON'S PLAN TO GUT GAME AND FISH

THE LION STING

GAME AND FISH INVESTIGATORS STALKED THE MOST NOTORIOUS MOUNTAIN LION HUNTER IN THE STATE. HE TURNED OUT TO BE A HIRED GUN FOR RANCHERS, AND HE'D KILLED 18 CATS.

LET'S DO LAUNCH

NO,YOU DON'T HAVE TO BE A ROCKET SCIENTIST. JUST FLEX YOUR MISSILES.

INTERSTATE HIGH JINKS

LAND BATTLE PITS REP. JON KYL (R-DEL WEBB CORP.) AGAINST REP. JIM BILBRAY (D-SUMMA CORP.)

A RIVER RAN THROUGH ITA TANGLED DEBATE SURROUNDS THE SAN PEDRO RIVER, ARIZONA'S ECOLOGICAL STOREHOUSE

A FATAL CAE OF GOLD FEVER

FRED SCHRADER WOULDN'T PULL THE TRIGGER IF HIS LIFE DEPENDED ON IT. UNFORTUNATELY IT DID.

GIVE ME THAT OLD-TIME CONSTITUTION

THE STRUGGLE BETWEEN ENVIRONMENTALISTS AND INDUSTRY OVER PRIVATE PROPERTY RIGHTS HAS TAKEN ON A RELIGIOUS FERVOR

Those $1,000 Checks Do Add Up

MINE SHAFTEDTHE FOLKS IN MORRISTOWN MAY BE GETTING A NOT-SO-GRAND CANYON

SHOWDOWN IN CATTLE COUNTRY

THE KLUMPS HAVE RUN COWS ON PUBLIC LAND FOR DECADES. NOW THEY'RE TELLING THE GOVERNMENT THEY OWN IT.