Incorporating Traditional Knowledge in the Bureau of Land Management's Planning Process in the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska

2005 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 38-41
Author(s):  
Stacie McIntosh
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Federal Government ◽  
Planning Process ◽  
Public Lands ◽  
Government Agencies ◽  
Bureau Of Land Management ◽  
The Public ◽  
Management Actions ◽  
The Us ◽  
Goals And Objectives

The Bureau of Land Management (BLM), like many federal government agencies in the US, has specific handbooks and manuals to provide guidance for preparing, amending, revising, and implementing BLM land use plans. These land use plans (or LUPs in the acronym-heavy world of the federal government) establish the goals and objectives for resource management, and serve as the basis for management actions, on the public lands that are covered by the plan.

Agency Legitimacy: A Reputational Power Analysis of the Bureau of Land Management

2019 ◽  
Vol 52 (3) ◽  
pp. 343-374
Author(s):  
Joshua Malay ◽  
Mathew Fairholm
Keyword(s):  
Land Management ◽  
Planning Process ◽  
Legal Aspect ◽  
Public Lands ◽  
Land Policy ◽  
Bureau Of Land Management ◽  
The Public ◽  
Large Scope ◽  
Federal Land

This article examines the organizational reputation of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) using Daniel Carpenter’s reputation and power theory as a theoretical and methodological base. Federal Land Policy and Management Act (FLPMA) is utilized to guide and organize case selection, as it is the legal mandate behind BLM authority and represents the fullest extent of the agency’s activities. The findings of this case study indicate that the BLM has a negative reputation in all but the legal-procedural dimension. Three implications are identified: (a) FLPMA serves only to define the procedural-legal aspect of public planning process, (b) the inability of FLPMA to define a purpose to public lands management has its root in the large scope of activity required of the BLM by FLPMA, and (c) finally, retention has placed the BLM and the federal government in a precarious position of an owner rather than custodian of the public lands.

American Libraries and the US Federal Government: an overview of partnerships for enhanced resource access

2015 ◽  
Vol 29 (8) ◽  
pp. 2-6
Author(s):  
Bethany Latham
Keyword(s):  
Federal Government ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Government Agencies ◽  
Government Information ◽  
Digital Collections ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Us ◽  
Us Government ◽  
Us Federal Government ◽  
Partnership Program

Purpose – This paper aims to explore the US Government Publishing Office’s (GPO) partnership program: what it is, how the GPO defines partnership, the types of institutions that are participating and the resources these institutions are making available through partnership. Design/methodology/approach – This paper reviews the available literature and information from the US GPO on its partnership program, examines the institutions contributing to the program and what those contributions entail, surveys the resources made available through these partnerships and examines how this affects access to government information. Findings – Partnership with the US GPO provides benefits to libraries, museums, government agencies and other entities, increasing discoverability and enhancing access to digital collections of government information and other resources. Originality/value – This paper examines the parameters of the US GPO’s partnership program, why libraries and other institutions might wish to partner with the GPO and the effect these partnerships have had on enhancing access to government information resources, an area that has not been extensively covered in library literature.

scholarly journals Price Gouging During a Pandemic: The Federal Government’s Response

2020 ◽  
Vol 48 (4) ◽  
pp. 33
Author(s):  
Marissa Rydzewski
Keyword(s):  
Federal Government ◽  
World Health ◽  
State Of Emergency ◽  
Health Crisis ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Us ◽  
Fraudulent Activity ◽  
The Many ◽  
Health Organization ◽  
Price Gouging

On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) characterized the COVID-19 outbreak as a pandemic. Two days later, the US president declared a state of emergency in Proclamation No. 9994. One of the many problems that arise with a public health crisis is the shortage of essential medical supplies like ventilators, masks, and hand sanitizer. When these items become scarce, some businesses or entrepreneurs try to inflate their prices to make a higher profit when they know they can still sell these necessary items. These high costs on goods during disasters or emergencies can seem unfair and make it difficult for those who need them able to afford them. During these stressful times, it’s important for Americans to recognize and report price gouging when they suspect fraudulent activity when purchasing items. Where do people find the authority on anti-price gouging laws? Typically, it is each state’s responsibility, however, in times of crisis, the federal government could also do what is necessary to protect the public interests. This paper will assist people in understanding what price gouging is, how to recognize when price gouging is occurring, and how to report it. Additionally, this paper will address what responsibility the federal government has to protect Americans from price gouging schemes in times of crisis and what it is currently implementing to prevent these fraudulent actions.

scholarly journals The Effect of Participative Strategic Planning Process on Job Satisfaction: The Experience of Local Government Agencies

2001 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 41-55
Author(s):  
Soonhee Kim
Keyword(s):  
Job Satisfaction ◽  
Public Sector ◽  
Local Government ◽  
Strategic Planning ◽  
Planning Process ◽  
Strategic Plan ◽  
Participative Management ◽  
Government Agencies ◽  
Clear Understanding ◽  
The Public

Strategic planning has been emphasized in the public sector to enhance government performance and accountability. However, little empirical research exists on participative management in strategic planning and its impact on employees' job satisfaction in government agencies. This study explores the relationships between employees' perceived input in strategic plan development, knowledge of the strategic plan, role clarity in strategic planning, and job satisfaction in local government agencies. The results of multiple regression analysis demonstrate that employees who perceive they have input in a department's strategic plan development express higher levels of job satisfaction than others who do not. The present study also supports the view that employees' clear understanding of their roles in accomplishing the goals in strategic plan is positively associated with job satisfaction. In this regard, organizational leaders' commitment to participative management and empowerment in the process of strategic planning should be emphasized in the public sector.

scholarly journals FOREST RECREATION MOVES AHEAD IN ONTARIO

1962 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
pp. 121-125
Author(s):  
A. B. Wheatley
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Public Interest ◽  
Renewable Resources ◽  
Public Lands ◽  
Timber Production ◽  
Multiple Use ◽  
The Public ◽  
Land Use Plan ◽  
Outdoor Experiences ◽  
Recreational Use

1. The public right to use and enjoy its forest- and lakeland must be protected.2. Specially developed areas to provide for wild-land recreational use is necessary to enable people to participate in outdoor experiences. An expanding provincial parks system is fundamental to this.3. Multiple-use of public lands, including parks, is fundamental to a full land use concept. A waste of a resource is contrary to the public interest.4. There should always be a practice of reserving public lands for park purposes, incorporating the multiple-use concept, in order to avoid a possible development that is not compatible with the main potentials of the land.5. The recreational resource in forest areas is very real and must be part of a land use plan in which timber production and recreation, being renewable resources, should be reconciled and each developed to provide the maximum public value.

Recovering Looted Artifacts and the Art of Deciding What to Curate: The Cerberus Collection

Collections ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 155019062095153
Author(s):  
Diana M. Barg ◽  
Emily S. Palus
Keyword(s):  
Public Lands ◽  
American Southwest ◽  
Cultural Property ◽  
Cultural Resources ◽  
Bureau Of Land Management ◽  
The Public ◽  
Third Phase ◽  
Resource Protection ◽  
Legal Foundations ◽  
Evidence Gathering

The U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is steward to vast cultural resources across public lands and in museum collections. Like other land-managing agencies, its resource protection strategy includes Federal enforcement of cultural property laws. Between 2007 and 2013, a case code-named Operation: Cerberus Action recovered more than 100,000 objects, mainly consisting of artifacts from the American Southwest, through undercover operations, evidence gathering, seizure, and forfeiture. Prized by collectors and stockpiled as part of illicit ventures, most of the artifacts have little-to-no provenience. To address the immense quantity of material and best meet the public interest, the BLM developed a decision-tree with criteria to determine appropriate disposition options. This process involved three intensive phases: (1) identification; (2) return or repatriation; and (3) assessment of the remaining items to inform disposition based on specific criteria. In this third phase, artifacts are categorized for curation, education, conveyance to tribes beyond the scope of NAGPRA, another public use, or ultimately, destruction. This paper summarizes the case, addresses the legal foundations for determining ownership, presents the significance criteria for disposition, and concludes with a reflection on the opportunities and challenges of this endeavor, which may guide similar efforts in the future.

Brandishing Guns: Performing Race and Belonging in the American West

2018 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 343-355 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lindsay Livingston
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Federal Government ◽  
Land Management ◽  
American West ◽  
The United States ◽  
Civic Life ◽  
Bureau Of Land Management ◽  
White Supremacist ◽  
The Us ◽  
Gun Culture

This article examines the racial dynamics and performative nature of US gun culture by analyzing the 2014 standoff between Cliven Bundy and the Bureau of Land Management. The standoff followed discernible scripts of white masculine privilege and drew on scenarios of conquest in the US American West, as Bundy’s supporters gathered at his ranch and brandished their weapons in open defiance of the federal government. The act of brandishing their guns was a ‘performance of belonging’, a public, theatrical gesture that marks the bearer as a full participant in civic life and all its attendant rights and privileges. This belonging, however, is predicated on histories of white supremacist laws and settler colonialist violence. By reading gun culture in the United States through the lens of performance, this article traces the profound discrepancies between legal and practical gun rights and illuminates one of the most intractable debates at the center of US American life.

scholarly journals American “Populism” and the Spatial Contradictions of US Govern-ment in the Time of COVID-19

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (Especial) ◽  
pp. 15-23
Author(s):  
John Agnew
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Federal Government ◽  
Right Wing ◽  
Donald Trump ◽  
White House ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Us ◽  
Us Federal Government ◽  
Governmental System

President Donald Trump has been the public face of the blundering managerial response of the US federal government to the Coronavirus/COVID-19 pandemic. Yet, beyond Trump’s personal failure lies a failure of the US governmental system. More specifically, the role of the federal government in fashioning nationwide policies across a range of areas, including public health, that one think would be empowered by a self-defined “nationalist” or right-wing populist in the White House, has been crippled by an anti-federalist ideology and the institutional inertia it has created. These have roots going back to the 1980s and the distortion of historic US federalism that these have entailed.

scholarly journals Failed Collaborative Efforts Relating to Public Lands Use in Idaho’s Boulder-White Cloud Mountains Area

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 250 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. Scott Lee
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Federal Government ◽  
Public Lands ◽  
Public Land ◽  
Government Officials ◽  
Collaborative Decision Making ◽  
The Public ◽  
Collaborative Efforts ◽  
Collaborative Decision ◽  
Central Idaho

U.S. Representative Mike Simpson touted his collaboration efforts regarding the Central Idaho Economic Development and Recreation Act (CIEDRA). He stated he had worked hard to bring together different stakeholders representing local ranchers, local, state, and federal government officials, recreationists, wilderness proponents, and other interested groups and individuals to work toward resolving the public land use issues facing the Boulder-White Clouds area in Central Idaho. On its face it appeared to be a perfect example of collaborative decision making. Yet, CIEDRA failed every time it was introduced in Congress. Analysis of the process utilized by Simpson reveals that the CIEDRA collaboration was unsuccessful because there was, in fact, no collaboration. The necessary steps for collaborative decision making were not followed and ultimately, when resistance to the collaborative efforts was encountered early on in the process, a conscious switch was made to “shuttle diplomacy” which was ultimately unsuccessful.

scholarly journals Status report - The Public Health and Planning 101 project: strengthening collaborations between the public health and planning professions

2017 ◽  
Vol 37 (1) ◽  
pp. 24-29
Author(s):  
Ahalya Mahendra ◽  
Tin Vo ◽  
Candice Einstoss ◽  
Jason Weppler ◽  
Pauline Gillen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Land Use ◽  
Built Environment ◽  
Land Use Planning ◽  
Work Experience ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Planning Process ◽  
Status Report ◽  
Learning Needs ◽  
The Public

The Public Health and Planning 101 project aimed to increase cross-disciplinary knowledge among public health and planning professionals involved in the land use planning process. The multi-disciplinary project team administered an online survey in 2012 to Ontario public health and planning professionals in order to identify learning needs related to the built environment that would inform the development of the education module. The survey asked about built environment work, experience with collaborations, barriers faced working with the other profession, and learning needs. Most survey respondents agreed that both professions should be working together on the built environment, although only half indicated they actually were. The survey findings revealed the need for an education module to help public health and planning professionals collaborate in the land use planning process in Ontario, and to help inform policy related to healthy built environments.

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