Last spring, the Western Watersheds Project released an online report showing that BLM failed to conduct an environmental analysis before renewing more than half of the grazing permits it approved last year, resulting in degraded rangelands (E&E News PM, March 23).
That same month, the government watchdog group Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility used BLM data to develop an interactive digital map that found 54 million acres of federal lands the bureau leased for livestock grazing failed land health standards for basic physical and biological factors (E&E News PM, March 14).
