"The Bureau of Land Management (BLM), North Dakota Field Office proposes to prepare a Resource Management Plan (RMP) revision to the 1988 North Dakota RMP for land and mineral resources it administers within the State of North Dakota ... The North Dakota RMP would analyze approximately 60,000 acres of BLM managed public land and approximately 5.4 million acres of federal mineral estate. The BLM managed land in North Dakota is located primarily in Dunn and Bowman Counties, and constitutes approximately one-tenth of one percent of the total land within the state. The bulk of the federal mineral estate is federal coal. Additional acres are federal oil and gas only; the remaining acres are made up of all minerals, coal and oil and gas only, and other combinations"--Page 1

Like most technical disciplines, environmental science and engineering is becoming increasingly specialized. As industry professionals focus on specific environmental subjects they become less familiar with environmental problems and solutions outside their area of expertise. This situation is compounded by the fact that many environmental science

Mike Hudak traveled throughout the West speaking with former employees of wildlife and land management agencies, and citizens who have long advocated for better management of our public lands. Western Turf Wars is a compliation of these accounts - testimonies that reveal how and why the management agencies have failed to protect our public lands. Underlying that management failure is the cowboy myth's social and political legacies.