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Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom. — Thomas Jefferson

There is a consensus among both Animal and Environmental Advocates and natural resource scholars that the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is flawed. Many complaints about the agency existed during the Carter administration – an investigation, arrest warrants made, the night before issuing all 2,867 – the warrants and investigation was canceled. The problems existed also under the Reagan presidency – just as today.

Much of the literature on the Bureau of Land Management shows the agency’s weaknesses, as well as the need to either discontinue the agency, or make it much smaller. Perhaps separating into smaller agencies that specialize in certain land management – LEGAL – paradigms; This to hopefully discontinue the current criminality, money laundering, fraudulent disbursal of information, irresponsible handling of taxpayer money, and other odd excuses (i.e. lies) that exists today while they manage America’s Public Lands . . .

These reasons include (continued practice for decades and very unacceptable today, as America can no longer support such extravagant and irresponsible behavior from a government agency) concern about special interests’ involving corporations, while ignoring the American taxpaying public and their wants and needs. For example, the livestock and mining industries, for so long, been given favored treatment by BLM, that sometimes it is derisively referred to as the Bureau of Livestock and Mining.

Many of us also cite BLM’s weak legal (or ignoring U.S. Law all together) structure as a source of problems; as well as ignoring good science in favor of bad-science to favor corporations, or hunters, and obscure and small conservationist-groups supported by questionable corporations. . .

We also see the BLM as weak professionally, whereas, their science, range science and management, is not precise or well developed, and often important information simply left-out. Many of us, as well, see decisions based on either no science or fraudulent science. Their ESA, EA’s are a good example of this, and when combined with commonplace rhetoric rather than scientific facts simply becomes irresponsible, and quite costly to taxpayers. Good decisions based on the previous remains impossible and has been so.

The fact is improvement can only be accomplished by the Breaking-Up of the Department of the Interior and the Bureau of Land Management, and shown to be the only acceptable remedy. . . As these government agencies have simply become too large to control and do not remain within the Laws of the United States currently . . .
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1. J.N. CLARKE & D. MCCOOL, STAKING OUT THE TERRAIN: Power DIFFERENTIALS AMONG NATURAL RESOURCE AGENCIES (1985); George Coggins, The Law of Public Rangeland Management (1981) (draft paper prepared for Workshop on Political and Legal Aspects of Range Management, Teton Village WY, Sept. 14-15, 1981); P. CULHANE, PUBLIC LANDS POLITICS (1981); S.T. DANA & S.K. FAIRFAX, FOREST AND RANGE POLICY (2d ed. 1980); S.K. Fairfax, Coming of Age in the Bureau of Land Management (1981) (paper prepared for Workshop on Political and Legal Aspects of Range Management, Teton Village WY, Sept. 14-15, 1981); P. Foss, POLICS AND GRASS (1960); and R.H. NELSON, Tim NEW RANGE WARS: ENVIRONMENTALISTS VERSUS CATTLEMEN FOR THE PUBLIC
RANGELANDS (1980).

2. There’s More Rhetoric Than Reality in the West’s ‘Sagebrush Rebellion,’ NAT’L J. 1928-31 (Nov. 17, 1979); S. DANA & S.K. FAIRFAX, supra note 1, at 344.

3. Robert McG. Cawley, The Sagebrush Rebellion 170 (Fall, 1981) (Ph.D. dissertation, Colorado State University, Ft. Collins CO). NATURAL RESOURCES JOURNAL Management Act of 1976 (FLPMA).’ In addition, Professors Clarke and McCool have convincingly demonstrated BLM’s weaknesses measured in manpower levels and funding dollars compared to other natural resources agencies.’

Humankind has not woven the web of life.
We are but one thread within it.
Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves.
All things are bound together.
All things connect.
~ Chief Seattle, 1854 ~

When we make an interconnection with nature, whether it is with the soil, trees, deserts, mountains, or with wildlife, we transcend the common. No longer are the realities, our supposed civilized circumstance, or our heritage — of believing nature / wildlife is a secondary or subordinate situation, can or should be tolerated any longer . . .

The belief it is simply here for us to use any way we want, and as long as we believe contrived limited agendas falsely portrayed and required and in those instances it is needed to survive, is in-error and will lead us to Extinction.

Our commercialized use of nature, hunt, fish, and trap method of survival is not viable any longer, but simply facades of a cultural mess long ago shown false.

Education of our Environmental-Complex shown false as well, as students are not learning to cohabitate with nature or wildlife; today’s students learn to consume, or learn to present or create a growth for even more consumption-for-profit. Through the cycle of life this short-term situation becomes a reality; eventually, this turns into a long-term nightmare, it becomes the situation of nothing left to consume = Extinction.

The assumption that ecological systems will tolerate destruction only to rebuild themselves is false – THEY DO NOT.

Clearly environmental and ecological paradigms must change and involve a reality based structure of cohabitatable long-term management principles’. These principles must involve the basic elements of directly involved cohabitation – Humankind-Environment-Wildlife.

This involves a cultural-education to all of civilized society, advancement if you will, which in itself presents a workable heritage of our natural wildlife — not killing or abusing it to manage it; of using nature collaterally, rather than enhance destructive elements, which do not safeguard, enhance, or enrich nature.

Change requires administrators, politicians, ecologists’, conservationists, and biologists alike who will work together, and acknowledge the necessity to do so. These folks must work not with ignorant or arrogant beliefs of personal or political agenda’s, previous methodology or paradigms most often offering little to no use and with no positive resolutions shown within history — or because of heritage – but rather a mindset of collateral methodology and known direction.

This change is essential, as well as a change of profit-based management paradigms, which must be set aside – disposed of quickly. Our civilization is simply taking too much, with no replenishment or no collateral-assumption toward respect.

With no effort toward rehabilitation of our Environment, Our Earth, the needed change will simply not happen – and that is a very sad situation for us all!