Forest Service struggles with staffing as firefighting costs double

By Laurel Adams

In the last decade, the Forest Service’s costs for firefighting have doubled, totaling $1 billion in 2009, according to the inspector genera

More transparency needed about BLM lease protests

By Julie Vorman

The Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) failure to keep detailed records about protests against its federal land lease sales to energy compani

BLM urged to put more leasing protest data online

By Linsey Isaacs

The Interior Department’s Bureau of Land Management (BLM), which manages 245 million acres in the West, promised earlier this year to seek m