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This article incorporates text from the BLM website, and it shows. Parts of this article seem very PR-ish, such as this whole paragraph:
This effectively says, in forward-looking-go-get-em-optimistic marketing style, that the BLM does its job. Well, one would hope so. Also, while the beautiful images are nice, I don't think they add as much to the article as, say, a map of BLM-held land would. -- Scott eiπ 10:15, 27 December 2005 (UTC)
Winners never quit and quitters never win - but when you never quit and never win there is something wrong. After nearly seven years of working for BLM and DOI in the area of business and IT architecture I was able to see the first-hand serious problems that permeate these parts of the Federal Government. Taxpayers would save lots of money if Federal Land were handed to the Nature Conservancy for management. If you ever saw an old western with the crooked Indian agent in it - he was working for DOI. The Cobell lawsuit against DOI hopefully will be resolved in favor of the Indians. There are billions of dollars missing in oil and gas and mineral royalties owed to the Indians by DOI. DOI's Internet access has been shut down by Judge Lambert many times now. The sad truth is the attacks on DOI information is not coming from outside the DOI but from ignorant employees who lack training.
If one works for the NSA, CIA, Dept of the Army, etc. one can get tuition reimbursement from ones employer. Advanced degrees are encouraged at these agencies and departments. When one works for DOI one can not get tuition reimbursement because DOI worries that once one has an education one will find another job. This arrested mindset permeates DOI and all its bureaus. In house software developers at BLM created an electronic system for employees to enter their daily time card data. Engineering reviewed their approach and the developers were advised to monitor their network usage for the application. The project manager had a fit at the suggestion. This is just common sense for any project that makes use of a WAN resource. A few weeks before deployment the developers had determined that a single user would transact 10 megabytes of information just for a single time card! Engineering had to step in at the last minute and contract a Lotus Note application developer to re-factor the application. The WAN was a confederation of fractional T1/frame relay lines and could not handle the traffic of an inefficient application. The taxpayer pays daily for this lack of education on the part of DOI employees.
DOI faces a serious challenge in leadership, asset management, information management, security, chain of custody systems and other areas but lacks an organizational architecture to stop wasting money and implement changes necessary to cut costs. One specific situation involved the need to inventory computers across the BLM specifically and across DOI as well. BLM spent over 6 million dollars implementing Tivoli enterprise management across 147 sites. The system provided two inventories before the system was sabotaged by the system administration employees systematically across the BLM. This became known as the 6 million dollar scan or to some of us as the 6 million dollar SCAM. The system administrators wanted to continue the existing system of doing "data calls" across the state offices. This approach, of course, allowed them to "cook" their data reporting. The final nail in the Tivoli coffin was driven by a Windows administrator at NIRMC in Denver decided he wanted to deploy a Microsoft SMS solution. BLM was spending around 60 million a year on system administrator labor when they could have centralized their IT and drastically cut administrator labor.
Check out http://www.indiantrust.com/ to get the truth about DOI. Godzilla1138 04:46, 28 April 2007 (UTC)
I removed or reworded lots of POV language in this section. Articles must not assume the subject of the article is always right (by using wording such as "the BLM must..."). The section seems to appeal to authority quite often; sources must be specific if you want to give a better impression ("scientists say" - Who? Which scientists? All scientists? The scientists who work for the BLM?). I also tagged the article for being unbalanced. The issue of killing these horses has raised a major public relations scandal, and yet that problem is not addressed anywhere in the article. This article must also stop relying on the BLM's website as the only source. This is does not seem to be systematic bias; but a direct attempt to suppress negative publicity; see the BLM's facebook entry for evidence of internet publicity campaign. In fact, the rest of the article has these very same problems. The use of language towards the BLM seems almost honorific. What is the point of the image galleries of the land the BLM administers?
The claim that "10,000 more horses is more than can exist in harmony with other resources" seems ludicrous when considering that hundreds of thousands (?) of cows also share the public "rangeland" - are mass cattle hordes native to the 'rangeland'? No. Also, open steppes are the natural environment of horses; the article implies that the presence of 'foreign' species to an environment is always harmful. What exists in that environment that isn't in their native habitat? What exactly are they harmful to? The article doesn't say.-- IronMaidenRocks ( talk) 19:03, 16 February 2011 (UTC)
article says BLM own this and that, basically the whole country. there are many disputes about that, and I want to see them mentioned on the page. The newest outrage is about Cliven Bundy - a cattle farmer, who is being harassed by the BLM on a big scale. The US constitution says - all rights not given to the Federal Government belong to the States and the People - and last time I read the constitution there was no mention of a BLM or land in the States that doesn't belong to the States.
Rittmeester ( talk) 04:11, 11 April 2014 (UTC)
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Rittmeester ( talk) 13:50, 11 April 2014 (UTC)
Rittmeester ( talk) 04:34, 12 April 2014 (UTC)
<outdent>@Rittmeetser: Stop using this talkpage as a soapbox for your views on the BLM and the constitution, this talkpage is not a forum. Talkpages are for substantive discussion of article improvement. Soapboxing of this kind is disruptive to the work of the encyclopedia. Acroterion (talk) 13:08, 12 April 2014 (UTC)
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Range War Incident
In April, 2014 following a years long legal dispute between cattle rancher Cliven Bundy and the BLM, some several hundred protesters gathered armed with various firearms to protect Cliven Bundy's right to allow his cattle to graze on public land. The protestors were successful, despite the BLM's employment of armed personell.
76.212.144.71 ( talk) 05:02, 15 April 2014 (UTC)
A reasonable edit request, for which there are ample sources (e.g., http://lasvegas.cbslocal.com/2014/04/09/nevadan-named-blm-chief/), is to update the director list to include Neil Kornze. But it might be embarrassing to do that; after all, readers could become interested in exactly who the new director is or begin to consider exactly when he became director. The length of time Mr. Kornze remains off the list will reflect the degree, and direction, of this article's leanings. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 121.54.54.149 ( talk) 09:32, 16 April 2014 (UTC)
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Hi, I'm a wildlife biology student and I added a photo from the commons to show lands held by the BLM. I hope you all found this to be an appropriate contribution.