Western Lands

Update
Spring 2007 Research, Outreach, and Advocacy to Keep Public Lands Public
Western Lands Project
Seattle, Washington
Vol. 11, No. 1

Western Lands Project: Ten Years Defending Public Lands

Janine Blaeloch, Director

T
local citizens; and keeping public land protection on
his month marks our tenth year as the first and the radar in the U.S. Congress.
only organization dedicated to monitoring the
But the essential work of Western Lands is keeping an
myriad attempts to privatize our shared public
eye on more than 80 national forests and 106 BLM
land. We started this organization, then the
offices in the West (not to mention a few notorious
Western Land Exchange Project, because it had
members of Congress). Our primary job is to make
to be done—but I doubt it would have occurred to
sure that wherever public land passes into private
our founding board members and me that we would
hands it happens in an open and lawful manner.
survive this long. Thanks to enlightened foundations
Where a land deal does not serve the public interest,
and donors, steadfast members, passionate public land
our job is to stop it, to change it, or—at the very least—
devotees, and a media that still recognizes a good scan-
name names and keep the public informed.
dal when it sees one, here we remain.
We have made tremendous progress in raising the Some highlights of our first decade
profile of federal land trades, sales, and giveaways; The Western Lands Project (originally the Western
compelling greater accountability within the two main Land Exchange Project) was founded after Janine led
land-dealing agencies, the Forest Service and Bureau a challenge against the Huckleberry Land Exchange
of Land Management (BLM); training and assisting between the Forest Service and Weyerhaeuser as a
member of Pilchuck Audubon Society. Founding board
members Rachael Paschal
Osborn, Bonnie Phillips, and
Martin Rand helped establish
the first organization dedicated
to monitoring land trades and
bringing reform to the process.
The Project became a 501(3)(c)
organization in April 1997.
From September 27 to Octo-
ber 2, 1998, the Seattle Times
published “Trading Away the
West” an investigative series on
federal land exchanges (still
viewable on the Times’ website)
that broke the issue into public
and media consciousness.
Citizens of every stripe will take action to save the public land they care about.
Photo: Colby Chester 
 In 1999, our involvement in a lawsuit over the George Miller (D-CA). We furnished the
Huckleberry Land Exchange brought about GAO with much of information needed to
a precedent-setting decision in the Ninth initiate the audit. GAO’s report was highly
Circuit Court of Appeals that has substantially critical of both Forest Service and BLM
affected Forest Service trades. Muckleshoot land exchanges and spurred important
The BLM is Indian Tribe v. U. S. Forest Service established reforms in the Forest Service’s land trade
beginning to important legal precedent by requiring Forest program.
post project Service and BLM offices to conduct better
In 2001, we published the “Citizens’ Guide
analysis and disclosure of the environmental
lists on its web impacts of federal land trades.
to Federal Land Exchanges,” offering step-
pages (blm. by-step advice on how to work to improve
That same year, the Interstate-90 Land or stop a land trade. As we’d hoped, many
gov), so at last Exchange between the Forest Service and people have used the book to negotiate
the public will Plum Creek Timber made front-page news the learning curve on land trades and take
have a reliable in Northwest newspapers. After the Western effective action.
Land Exchange Project had attempted to
way to keep stop the trade—passed through Congress
That year we joined the Center for Biologi-
track of land cal Diversity and the Grand Canyon Chap-
as a hidden “rider” on an appropriations
ter of the Sierra Club in a lawsuit against
trades, land bill—Plum Creek discovered a nest of
the BLM in Arizona for its decision to
the endangered marble murrelet on for-
sales, and any merly public land it had received in the
exchange land with the mining conglomer-
other projects ate ASARCO. The corporation sought the
exchange. As the company and agency
exchange in order to expand an open-pit
the agency is scrambled to re-work the
planning. The trade, the Project helped form
a coalition of environmen-
Forest Service tal groups and rural citizens
has made signif- against the project, and the
icant improve- exchange was greatly altered
to exclude several important
ments to its areas, including old-growth
long-standing forest.
“Schedule In 2000, we published “Com-
of Proposed mons or Commodity? The
Actions,” post- Dilemma of Federal Land
Exchanges,” co-written with
ing each For- historian George Draffan.
est’s project The 104-page report outlines
list at fs.fed.us the history of land trades, the
policies and laws that govern
every quarter. them, the flaws in the process,
and suggestions for reform.
Also that year, the General
Accounting Office (GAO)
released an audit report on
land trades requested by Rep.

Old growth on Huckleberry

Mountain was eventually
spared when the Huckleberry
Land Exchange was altered
after our lawsuit.
Photo: Delmis Sonneson
Western Lands Update 2 Spring 2007
copper mine. A decision is still pending in
this case, in which we’re represented by the
Western Mining Action Project.
In Autumn 2001, Chris Krupp joined the
Project as staff attorney and immediately
launched a challenge against a land sale
in Nevada. Our case against the Lincoln
County Land Act was Chris’s first, and
brought a victory in court in 2004. The
BLM had neglected to analyze the impact
of taking water from nearby basins to supply
development of 13,000 acres of federal land
to be put up for auction. Ultimately the suit
was swept aside in another land sale bill in
Congress that mandated the quick auction-
ing of the land despite the court decision.
Both the original land sale and the bypass-
ing legislation were sponsored by Senator
Harry Reid of Nevada.
In 2002, we stopped a congressional pro-
posal by a conservative member of the
House Resources Committee that would
have given away for free land in the Ange-
les National Forest to a private observatory
that had been leasing the parcel for many
years. The land was estimated to be worth
$100 million. Coverage in the Los Angeles
Times killed the deal—Californians were
none too pleased that the proposal came
from a Pennsylvania Republican in aid of a
group of his political allies.
With the help of Public Employees for
Environmental Responsibility we worked
with Kent Wilkinson, a Utah BLM whistle-
blower who charged that the agency was
skewing appraisal numbers, resulting in a
potential $100 million public rip-off in the
San Rafael Swell (Utah) exchange, a con-
gressional proposal. The Inspector General
of the Interior Department investigated
the charges and the ensuing scandal led
to a complete restructuring of the Interior
Department’s appraisal division as well as
cancellation of the San Rafael trade.
Working with citizens of Sisters, Oregon, we
helped stop a land exchange proposal that
would have given a local developer a well-
loved area of national forest along Squaw
Creek, on the edge of Sisters. In exchange,
the public would have been given an
Western Lands Update 3 Spring 2007
inholding the developer had purchased Citizen opposition
on Steens Mountain, more than 200 miles stopped a land trade that
south of their town. would have given these
peaks in Arizona’s Santa
Staff attorney Chris Krupp conducted a
Ritas to the ASARCO
Freedom of Information Act campaign
mining conglomerate.
against the Nevada BLM and discovered
that employees of a private land company Photo: Western Lands
were working in the BLM office that was
proposing an exchange with that company.
Chris got the issue covered in the New York
Times, and the collusion was halted.
In June 2003 the Los Angeles Times pub-
lished a series of investigative stories on
congressional family members’ cashing in
on their political connections. “The Sen-
ator’s Sons: In Nevada the Name to Know
is Reid,” exposed Nevada Senator Harry
Reid’s relatives’ involvement in federal land
privatization and development in the Las
Vegas Valley. Western Lands worked for
months with investigative reporter Chuck
Neubauer to help uncover details of the
Reids’ connections with public land deals.
In 2004, the Forest Service completed a
land exchange in Utah’s Dixie National
Forest that Western Lands had been work-
ing on since 1999. The deal between the
agency and a power company was aimed
at privatizing land where the company
had a power plant under permit on public
land. Through correspondence, Freedom
of Information Act requests, and work
with local citizens, we were able to achieve
substantial improvement in the proposal.
Rather than staying with the original plan
to trade 179 acres of federal land for 40
acres of private land, the trade was pared
down to 40 for 40.
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In 2005, the Umpqua land exchange project
Too often, the Forest
in Oregon, which we had been monitor-
Service has traded
ing and opposing since 1998, was dropped.
intact forest land
The trade would have involved potentially
for cut-over, heavily-
675,000 acres of Forest Service, BLM, and
roaded timber industry
timber industry lands, and was the brain-
land.
child of timber companies as a way to trade
corporate lands in off-limits sensitive habitat
Photo: Dr. John Osborn
for federal land with accessible trees.
In June 2006, we settled a case filed the year
before against the BLM, for which Western
Lands and co-plaintiffs were represented
by the ACLU. The premise of the case was
that Interior abdicated their management
responsibilities at Martin’s Cove, a national
historic site in Wyoming. At the instruction
of Congress, Interior had entered into a
25-year lease that effectively ceded manage-
ment of the site, which is federal land, to the
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
(LDS). The Church has been given virtu-
ally unfettered control of the site, which is
listed on the National Register of Historic
Places. Plaintiffs believed this violated the
First Amendment’s prohibition on govern-
ment establishment of any religion. Western
Lands’ involvement was based on the virtual
privatization of this public land through the
Church’s control of activities there. At issue
were such problems as signage that co-min-
gled the Mormon Church’s logo with that of
the BLM and proselytizing by church mem-
bers. The settlement satisfactorily resolved
our concerns by eliminating any ambiguity
that the site is public land and prohibiting
proselytizing.
In June, Western Lands gained coverage of
federal land issues on National Public Radio’s
Western Lands Update 4 Spring 2007
All Things Considered and in November on
Morning Edition (both are archived on our In
the Media page). Reporter Jeff Brady covered
the issues of federal land sales designed to ben-
efit local interests and Nevada Senator Harry
Reid’s special land deals for his home state.
In August, staff attorney Chris Krupp filed
suit on behalf of Nevada Outdoor Recre-
ation Association and Western Lands on
an illegal land trade in Nevada. At issue is
a development called Coyote Springs. In a
1988 congressional land trade, manufacturer
Aerojet acquired 42,000 acres of public land
in Coyote Spring Valley north of Las Vegas
to build a rocket testing facility. 14,000 acres
in the middle of the property was set aside
as protected desert tortoise habitat under
a lease with the BLM. Aerojet subsequently
decided against building and sold 28,000
acres of the non-leased land to Harvey Whit-
temore. In 2005, to accommodate Whitte-
more, the BLM issued a “corrective patent”
to completely relocate 10,000 acres of the
leased land so that he would have a contigu-
ous piece of property. (A patent is an instru-
ment conveying public land).
BLM did not prepare an environmental
assessment before changing the boundaries,
nor an appraisal to determine whether Whit-
temore was taking more valuable land. The
land exchange violates the National Environ-
mental Policy Act (NEPA) and the Federal
Land Policy & Management Act (FLPMA).
For the last several years, Western Lands
Project has been a leading opponent of sev-
eral ill-conceived public land bills that com-
bined wilderness designation with public
land trades, sell-offs, and even giveaways.
Working with other grassroots groups, we
spread the word about the harmful implica-
tions of these bills among politicians and in
the media. In 2006, Western Lands helped
bring together 88 organizations across the
country in a collective call for a moratorium
on omnibus public land bills pending a pos-
sible change in Congress — a change that
did, in fact, occur in the subsequent Novem-
ber election. Ultimately, three of the four
worst bills failed to pass in the 109th Con-
gress in the Republican majority’s last weeks.
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Now & Upcoming
In Congress
The change in leadership in the U.S. Con-
gress will almost certainly bring some relief
for public land. While it’s doubtful the
Democrats will charge ahead with big, pro-
active land-saving measures—at least in the
next two years—neither are they likely to
push the horrible land privatization bills the
Republicans favored.
The most likely exception to that rule is
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of
Nevada. Reid, whose state has the highest
percentage of public land, has sponsored leg-
islation that has privatized more than 165,000
acres of federal land in Nevada since 2002.
Indeed, even in the sunset of the Republican-
led 109th Congress, only the Democrat Reid
managed to get a big land bill through— as
a rider on a tax-related bill. In the past, Reid
has vowed to pass bills county-by-county
throughout Nevada, combining land and
water development and public land privatiza-
tion with wilderness designations.
In the Agencies
The Bush Administration has proposed
again this year to sell off some 300,000
acres of Forest Service land to fund schools
and local services in historically timber-
Western Lands Update 5 Spring 2007
dependent communities. The public rose
up against this idea when it was floated last
year, and the Senate appears close to pass-
ing legislation that would provide the funds
without land sales. A proposal to sell BLM
lands to pay down the deficit, also rejected
last year and brought back this year, seems to
be languishing.
The Washington Post recently published an
expose on the US Department of Agricul-
ture’s Rural Development Program, which
gives billions of dollars in grants and low-
interest loans ostensibly to aid rural areas.
An heir to FDR’s Depression-era rural aid
programs and funded through the Farm
Bill, the Rural Development program is sup-
posed to help economically challenged areas
with low population density and low tax rev-
enues. But the Post reports that the majority
of the money goes toward projects in stable,
even wealthy communities, including Cape
Cod and the Houston suburbs.
We take an interest in this issue because
county commissioners in many of the West’s
rural areas have called for public lands to
be sold off (or given to counties) to pay for
rural services. Western Lands will advocate
for appropriate distribution of the USDA’s
rural development funds as part of the
answer to the repugnant land-sale idea.
In parts of the arid
West, growth is creat-
ing enormous pressure
to privatize public
land.
Photo: Western Lands
 Recent Developments in the Law
Chris Krupp, Staff Attorney
O
ur tenth anniversary is an opportune
time to look at developments in the
statutes and case law controlling
public land disposals. The case law
has seen incremental improvements
and reflects the increased scrutiny that land
disposals have received since our founding.
Although there haven’t been any changes
to the Federal Land Policy and Manage-
ment Act (FLPMA), the primary statute
governing land exchanges, two recently
enacted laws have, unfortunately, made it
easier for the Forest Service and BLM to
Check out
sell lands under their management.
demarcated The Federal Land Transaction Facilitation
landscapes. Act of 2000 (FLTFA) authorizes the Interior
com, a new Department to keep the proceeds from
land sales and the cash equalization pay-
blog that fea- ments from land trades to purchase private
tures a wide in-holdings. The Forest Service Facility
range of news Realignment and Enhancement Act of 2005
(FSFREA) authorizes the Forest Service to
on American sell or exchange administrative sites of 40
public lands acres or less and use the funds received to
maintain other Forest Service facilities.
Not surprisingly, there has been an influx
of sale proposals from the BLM and
the Forest Service since these laws were
enacted. By keeping land sale proceeds
within Interior (rather than sending them
to the General Treasury), FLTFA increases
the BLM’s incentive to sell land. While
earmarking proceeds for the acquisition of
environmentally sensitive lands is a good
idea, we are concerned that some of the
land sale proceeds will be wasted on dubi-
ous acquisitions.
The Forest Service has an enormous back-
log of facilities in need of repair, but the
FSFREA is little more than a cosmetic fix to
cover Congress’s longtime failure to appro-
priate necessary maintenance funding. The
Act is also at odds with the rationale behind
FLPMA’s land exchange provisions. Excess
facilities are often the most appropriate
federal properties to exchange because
they have no wilderness or recreational
Western Lands Update 6 Spring 2007
values, and are often located in towns or
industrial zones.
In terms of court decisions, Muckleshoot
Indian Tribe v. Forest Service is obviously
noteworthy in our view— the Huckleberry
trade at issue in that case was the catalyst
for this organization’s creation— but it also
changed the way the agencies process land
exchanges. Prior to this decision, the agen-
cies tended to analyze land trades as paper
transactions, rather than projects with on-
the-ground impacts. With Muckleshoot, the
Ninth Circuit recognized that exchanges
can have negative as well as positive impacts
— the court scolded the Forest Service for
playing up the benefits of acquiring land
while neglecting the impact of the clearcut-
ting that would happen on National Forest
land traded to Weyerhaeuser. The court
also determined that the National Envi-
ronmental Policy Act (NEPA) required
an analysis of the cumulative impacts of
a future land trade in the area and con-
sideration of an alternative that included
protective deed restrictions on the federal
parcels traded away. (The Ninth Circuit
later reinforced the requirement that agen-
cies to analyze future land conveyances
as cumulative impacts in Hall v. Norton.)
Finally, the case reinforced that courts have
the authority under certain conditions to
void land trades even after deeds have been
exchanged.
Desert Citizens Against Pollution v. Bisson,
decided in 2000, concerned a BLM pro-
posal to trade public land in southern
California that was to be used for a regional
landfill. Desert Citizens was the first case
in which plaintiffs successfully relied on
FLPMA’s equal-value provision to challenge
a land trade. Previously, activists had had
no success challenging land trades on the
basis that federal lands had been underval-
ued or private lands overvalued. The courts
had likened this to taxpayer suits in which
general members of the public challenge
the way their tax dollars are spent by the
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government—these suits fail because the
taxpayers’ injuries are insufficiently particu-
lar to be heard by the courts.
Here, the Ninth Circuit recognized that
persons that use and benefit from a particu-
lar parcel of public land are injured when
more of that land is traded away than would
have been necessary if the land had been
appraised properly. The facts of the case
illustrate why it was so important to get past
the “taxpayer suit” threshold: even though
all indications were that the public land was
slated for use as a regional landfill after it
was traded, the land had been appraised as
open space, wildlife habitat or mine sup-
port. The court noted that the difference
between the two may have been as great as
$350/acre for open space or mine support
versus $46,000 acre for a landfill site.
Two cases concerning a proposed land
trade near Grand Canyon National Park,
City of Williams v. Dombeck and Sierra Club v.
Dombeck, have helped clarify when actions
subsequent to and dependent upon a
land trade are “connected” actions whose
impacts must be analyzed concurrent with
the trade’s more direct impacts. (In these
cases, construction of a water pipeline).
Finally, in 2003, Western Land Exchange Proj-
ect v. BLM was significant for requiring the
BLM to comply with NEPA when selling
public land at auction, even though Con-
gress had required that the land be sold
within 18 months. Although the public law
requiring the sale made no specific men-
tion of NEPA, the court acknowledged the
overarching importance of the law in hold-
ing there was no reason that an 18-month
deadline made NEPA analysis impracticable
for the agency. The court also reinforced
the previous caselaw regarding connected
actions by holding that BLM was required
to analyze the impacts on the fragile Mojave
Desert ecosystem of developing a municipal
water supply for the auctioned land.
Western Lands Update 7 Spring 2007
Onward!
Joanne Hedou, program Coordinator
T
he year 2007 is a real landmark for
the Western Lands Project. The stead-
fast support we’ve received from our
members over the years has been criti-
cal in allowing us to create a ground-
swell of awareness about how our public
lands are too frequently manipulated for
private gain. The support of individuals
and foundations throughout the US has
maintained the momentum of our mis-
sion to respond to bad land deals—land
Gale Norton’s
exchanges, sales, disposals and, of course,
tenure as Interior
“quid pro quo” agreements. The knowledge
Secretary was nota-
base around public land transactions is
ble for corruption,
now integrated into the practice of many
scandal, falsified
environmental activists and politicians; and
science, whistle-
a cadre of people who support good public
blower harassment,
lands policy has been formed. None of this
and unrelenting
could have happened without the involved,
exploitation of
informed individuals that have supported
the Western Lands Project. public land.
Her successor, ex-
Western Lands has accomplished a great
Idaho Governor
deal, and the ten-year mark is an appropri-
Dirk Kempthorne,
ate time to assess where we go from here.
is currently work-
Over the coming year we will be engaged in
ing on gutting the
planning to solidify the future of the West-
Endangered Species
ern Lands Project. We’ll keep you posted—
Act. Cartoon used
and, as usual, you can stay abreast of our
by permission.
work at westernlands.org.
Meet Our Board Members
Rebecca Rundquist, Marianne Dugan
President, has been joined Western
on Western Lands’ Lands’ board in 1999
board since 2000. while an attorney
Rebecca graduated and associate direc-
from Lewis and tor with the Western
Clark, Northwestern Environmental Law
School of Law in Center, where she
1994 with a certifi- litigated two major
cate in Environmen- land exchange cases.
tal Law. She has vol- Since leaving WELC
unteered for Ameri- in 1999, Marianne
can Rivers, the Sierra Club Legal Defense has worked as a lawyer in private practice in
Fund, and for the Northwest Environmen- Eugene, Oregon, in the areas of civil rights,
tal Defense Center as Executive Director. employment rights, property disputes,
Rebecca began volunteering for us in 1998. personal injury, and professional malprac-
As an attorney, she has worked on a variety tice, and continues her work in the area of
of environmental and conservations issues. environmental and land use law. Marianne
In 2002 she received a Master’s degree in earned a JD with certificates in environ-
Environmental Management from the Yale mental and ocean/coastal law as well as a
School of Forestry and Environmental Stud- Masters Degree in environmental studies
ies. Rebecca currently lives in Maine. from the University of Oregon.
Sandy Lonsdale Erica Rosenberg,
joined Western board member since
Lands’ board in 2006, is the Director
1999, after spear- of Arizona State Uni-
heading efforts to versity’s Sandra Day
stop a land exchange O’Connor College
between the of Law’s Program
Deschutes National on Public Policy.
Forest and Crown She received her
Pacific Timber near B.A. from Harvard
his hometown of University and J.D.
Bend,Oregon. Sandy works in the renew- from Boston Col-
able energy field and is a freelance journal- lege. Erica has had
ist and photographer focusing on land use extensive experience
issues, protecting the last of the great wild in environmental
Oregon. He recently completed a photo- and natural resources
inventory of Oregon’s unprotected wild for- policy. She has served as Democratic coun-
ests and produced the photography for an sel to both the U.S. House of Representa-
exploration guidebook for Oregon’s high tives Committee on Resources and the
desert wildlands called “The Oregon Desert Senate Committee on Energy and Natural
Guide.” Sandy recently moved to Moab, Resources. Erica has also served as counsel
Utah, where he and his wife own a small to the National Congress of the Republic of
hotel called the Kokopelli Lodge. Palau and to the U.S. Environmental Pro-
tection Agency; and has been a senior envi-
ronmental policy advisor at the U.S. Agency
for International Development.

Western Lands Update 8 Spring 2007

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Janine Blaeloch, Director
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Christopher Krupp
Staff Attorney
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Joanne Hedou
Program Coordinator
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