Amy Harder | April 18, 2011 | Reposted from The National Journal
The Federal Land Policy and Management Act
This 1976 law governs the way the Interior Department’s Bureau of Land Management administers public lands. To date, the bureau has protected just 1 percent of Western public land as wilderness and has leased 42 percent of it to oil and gas companies. The agency is eyeing parts of the remaining 57 percent of the land, which is now categorized as “mixed use.” The map above shows Colorado public lands protected by the bureau.
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