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</font></div><div style="line-height: 20.7999992370605px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 20px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">President Bush's nomination of Delos Cy Jamison, an aide to former Interior Secretary James G. Watt and an adviser to a ferociously anti-environmental member of Congress, as new chief of the Bureau of Land Management has dismayed environmentalists.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 20px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">They fear that Jamison, if approved by the Senate, will follow the line pursued the last eight years by current Director Robert F. Burford, a Colorado cattleman who is accused of starving the bureau's major environmental programs.</font></p></div><div style="line-height: 20.7999992370605px;"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; line-height: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Ranchers, meanwhile, praised the selection of the 39-year-old Montana native as a sign that the Bush Administration will advance Reagan-era policies that opened public lands to widespread private development.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; line-height: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"Cy Jamison is a square shooter," said a friend in Billings, Mont., where Jamison once sat on the City Council. "I think it is wrong for anybody to say that he will be a puppet of the western grazing interests."</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; line-height: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"Cy Jamison is a very ardent proponent of (an) agenda that is antithetical to conservation," said Debbie Sease of the Sierra Club. "He will continue to see BLM as an agency of and for the livestock and mining industries."</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; line-height: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Jamison declined to return telephone calls seeking an interview for this story.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 20px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><b>Burford came to Washington with a similar reputation, because as a Colorado legislator he promoted the Sagebrush Rebellio</b>n, a 1980 movement that sought to give public lands to the states and private developers.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 20px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Fined, Cited</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 20px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Burford, who as a rancher has been fined and repeatedly cited for illegally trespassing on BLM land, pursues deregulation with such zeal that he is trying to void land-use plans and open 180 million acres to miners and ranchers.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 20px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The National Wildlife Federation has sued him,</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> alleging that he broke the law by failing to notify Congress, hold public hearings or do an environmental study. The NWF is appealing a judge's decision to dismiss the suit on a technicality.</span></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 20px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Jamison's agenda is less clear because as a congressional aide, he promoted only the philosophy of his congressional boss, <b>Rep. Ron Marlenee </b>(R-Mont.)</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">. In that capacity, Jamison earned conservationists' enmity for opposing wilderness issues while championing oil companies. Supporters praise him for representing the interests of Marlenee's conservative constituents.</span></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; line-height: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Qualifications Questioned</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; line-height: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Critics not only question Jamison's politics, but his qualifications to run an agency with 7,600 full-time employees and a $700-million budget.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; line-height: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"It's one thing to say the President should have his guy, which the Senate usually does," said Michael Scott of the Wilderness Society's Montana office. "But the Senate also has the responsibility to see he has the basic skills to manage a major federal agency. There's no indication he has had the experience to do that."</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; line-height: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"Candidly, I guess he is untested as an administrator of that magnitude," said Will Brooke, a fellow Marlenee staff member who works with Jamison on the House Interior Committee. "I guess he'll have to prove himself."</font></p></div><div style="line-height: 20.7999992370605px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">===</font></div>

<h1 class="headline"><a href="http://www.westword.com/1995-11-08/news/buried-treasure/"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">BURIED TREASURE</font></a></h1>

<h3><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">THE HONEYMOON'S LONG OVER FOR EX-EPA CHIEF ANNE BURFORD AND HER LATE HUSBAND--BUT THE DIVORCE IS FOREVER.</font></h3></div></div>

<div class="byline"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">By <a href="http://www.westword.com/authors/alan-prendergast" class="author">Alan Prendergast</a> <span class="pubdate">Wednesday, Nov 8 1995</span></font></div>

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<p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">When <a title="Anne McGill Gorsuch" href="http://www.westword.com/related/to/Anne+McGill+Gorsuch/" data-omni-track="Inform-">Click|keyword[Anne+McGill+Gorsuch]">Anne <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">McGill</span> Gorsuch</a> married <a title="Robert Burford" href="http://www.westword.com/related/to/Robert+Burford/" data-omni-track="Inform-">Click|keyword[Robert+Burford]">Robert Burford</a> back in 1983, it seemed like a match made in Republican heaven: the Ice Queen and the Marlboro Man, the steely-eyed darling of corporate polluters and the squinty-eyed sagebrush rebel.</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a title="Burford Holdings Ltd." href="http://www.westword.com/related/to/Burford+Holdings+Ltd./" data-omni-track="Inform-">Click|keyword[Burford+Holdings+Ltd.]">Burford</a>, a Western Slope rancher and <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">former speaker of the </span><a title="Colorado House of Representatives" href="http://www.westword.com/related/to/Colorado+House+of+Representatives/" data-omni-track="Inform-"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Click|keyword[Colorado+House+of+Representatives</span>]">Colorado House of Representatives</a>, had moved from fighting federal bureaucrats to running the federal <a title="Bureau of Land Management" href="http://www.westword.com/related/to/Bureau+of+Land+Management/" data-omni-track="Inform-">Click|keyword[Bureau+of+Land+Management]">Bureau of Land Management</a>.<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> Gorsuch, a Denver attorney and one of the "House crazies" of the late 1970s </span>who vowed to get the government off industry's back, was <a title="Ronald Reagan" href="http://www.westword.com/related/to/Ronald+Reagan/" data-omni-track="Inform-">Click|keyword[Ronald+Reagan]">Ronald Reagan</a>'s choice to head the <a title="U.S. Environmental Protection Agency" href="http://www.westword.com/related/to/U.S.+Environmental+Protection+Agency/" data-omni-track="Inform-">Click|keyword[U.S.+Environmental+Protection+Agency]">Environmental Protection Agency</a>. <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Ideologically, the Burfords were a perfect pairing, the fun couple of the Reagan administration.</span></font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">But even politically perfect marriages have their rough spots. <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Weeks after the wedding, <a title="Anne Burford" href="http://www.westword.com/related/to/Anne+Burford/" data-omni-track="Inform-">Click|keyword[Anne+Burford]">Anne Burford</a> was forced to resign from her EPA post, caught in a toxic dispute with Congress over her refusal to release documents on waste disposal. (The tough-talking, frequently fur-clad ex-legislator also had alienated environmentalists and moderates alike with her haughty management style and wholesale housecleaning at the EPA--hence her icy nickname</span>.) <a title="Bob Burford" href="http://www.westword.com/related/to/Bob+Burford/" data-omni-track="Inform-">Click|keyword[Bob+Burford]">Bob Burford</a> stayed on as <b>director of the BLM until 1990,</b> but the <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">couple continued to be the target of nattering media nabobs--particularly after a 1985 double arrest in <a title="Arlington" href="http://www.westword.com/related/to/Arlington/" data-omni-track="Inform-">Click|keyword[Arlington]">Arlington</a>, Virginia, on charges of public drunkenness (Anne) and driving while intoxicated (Bob).</span></font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Congress and the press were mere nuisances, though, compared to what lay ahead for the Burfords back in Denver--the battle of Burford vs. Burford. In 1991 Bob filed for divorce. The case has been ricocheting through the courts ever since and has even outlasted its instigator, who died of cancer in 1993.<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> Although Denver District Judge Paul Markson entered a decree of dissolution in 1992, Anne Burford has doggedly opposed that decision and the ruling of a probate court denying her claim to Bob's estate as the surviving spouse.</span></font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Last month the <a title="Colorado Court of Appeals" href="http://www.westword.com/related/to/Colorado+Court+of+Appeals/" data-omni-track="Inform-">Click|keyword[Colorado+Court+of+Appeals]">Colorado Court of Appeals</a> reversed Markson's decision, holding that the divorce wasn't final at the time of Bob Burford's death. The opinion opens the way for Anne to claim half of Bob's total assets, valued at just under $2 million--more than ten times the amount of the "marital property" that was to be divvied up in the divorce. The appellate ruling also promises to keep the complex case alive for months--possibly years--to come, offering a glimpse of the tangled financial and emotional affairs of the ex-fun couple. For example:</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">He loves me, he loves me not: <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">According to court filings, Bob first filed for divorce in the fall of 1990 but immediately dismissed the petition. Anne didn't find out about the filing until months later, when Bob served her with a second divorce petition--on Valentine's Day.</span></font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> That action was also retracted within days, and a reconciliation followed. But by April 1991 Bob had moved out of the house, and a third petition was filed a few weeks later.</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">It's enough to make you sick: In the fall of 1992, after months of discovery procedures, Bob pushed for the divorce to be finalized as soon as possible, pleading ill health. Anne countered that ill health had been a factor throughout the course of their relationship and that considerable questions remained concerning the value of Bob's property. If he happened to die before the property disputes were resolved, she noted, she would end up battling his estate's lawyers and his children from a previous marriage--which is exactly what happened.</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Not only sick, but disoriented: In 1993 and 1994 Anne sought delays in her appeal of the divorce decree because of her health concerns. At one point she stated she was unable to complete her legal research "due to illness, including flu-like symptoms of nausea, headache, and disorientation." On another occasion, her research assistant "was taken ill with strong symptoms of stomach flu and/or food poisoning." Culprits blamed for other delays included an ailing word processor and a Denver court clerk suffering from "cumulative trauma syndrome."</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">His line of credit has expired: Attorneys for Burford's estate contend that the divorce settlement was more than fair to Anne, since she ended up with almost two thirds of the marital property and only a third of the marital debt. But the Ice Queen isn't satisfied. Arguing that she deserved a bigger share of Bob's assets than <a title="Paul Markson" href="http://www.westword.com/related/to/Paul+Markson/" data-omni-track="Inform-">Click|keyword[Paul+Markson]">Judge Markson</a> had awarded her, Anne observed, "In this case the Petitioner died, radically altering his economic needs."</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Reagonomics explained: Unlike some of his fellow Reaganauts, Bob Burford apparently didn't make a killing in the go-go '80s. Records submitted in the divorce action indicate that the value of his nonmarital property actually declined from 1983 to 1992, from $1.83 million to $1.67 million. Among the investments that lost money were stocks or other interests in energy and mining companies.</span> Anne has disputed the estate's valuation of her husband's assets, and Judge Markson adjusted the 1992 valuation upward, to $1.93 million, reflecting that one "paper loss" in a land deal was actually a transaction among family members.</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Debt? What debt? Although the Burfords entered into a prenuptial agreement, Anne claims the agreement contains numerous "false statements" regarding Bob's true assets and his hidden liabilities. At the time of their wedding, she contends, Bob had outstanding loans and tax liabilities of close to $300,000--most of which she knew nothing about until the divorce proceedings.</font>

<p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Aha! The trickle-down effect: As their marriage was breaking up, Anne charges, Bob secretly took out a $20,000 second mortgage on their house in southeast Denver and deposited the cash in his checking account for his personal use--sticking her with the debt. "Encumbering the most significant marital asset was clearly `estate planning' for divorce purposes," she complains.</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Behind every successful man... Judge Markson found that Bob's income from various sources during nine years of marriage totaled more than $2.1 million, while Anne's earnings amounted to less than $250,000. Anne concedes that she worked only part-time as a consultant and author after leaving the EPA, that she relied on Bob for a $2,500 monthly allowance for household expenses, and that she wasn't able to find full-time employment as an attorney upon her return to Denver. But she also insists the court's characterization of her earnings is misleading, since it failed to take into account her income from nontaxable investments. If the trial court's figures are correct, then the Burford partnership concluded with a net deficit of $57,507; the parties emerged from the marriage with $263,816 in joint assets, offset by $321,323 in marital debt.</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">...is a pack of lawyers: "The Court cannot recall a case in domestic relations in its twelve years on the bench that was more riddled with discovery dispute than this," Judge Markson wrote three years ago. Since the case began, Anne has run through five lawyers, been awarded a mere $30,000 in legal fees, and is now pressing forward as her own attorney. Court documents indicate that the representatives of Bob's estate have spent in excess of $230,000 on the matter. Each side has blamed the other for the soaring cost of the litigation.</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Till death do us part--uh, you first: Last week attorneys for the Burford estate filed an appeal of the Court of Appeals decision, arguing that the court had set a dangerous precedent. If Anne Burford is entitled to half her husband's estate in spite of the divorce decree, that "would create an incentive for a spouse to drag out divorce litigation in an attempt to outlive the other.</font></p>

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<h1 class="head" itemprop="name"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Reagan begins turning key to 'unlock' US wilderness</font></h1>

<div class="sBody p402_premium" style=" display: block;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A long-smoldering, emotion-ridden political wildfire - the wilderness issue - is flaring once again. The reason for this most recent outbreak is a series of pending and already-issued leases for mineral, oil, and gas exploration in the nation's existing and proposed wilderness areas.</font></div>

<p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Spearheaded by US Interior Secretary James G. Watt, the Reagan administration has made no secret of its intention to open public lands previously ''locked up'' - protected from development by petroleum and mineral companies.</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Assembled in the last two decades, wilderness areas are roadless areas that are to be kept in a totally natural state. All vehicles are banned. The only access is by foot or horse.</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">But for the last nine months, Secretary Watt has been stripping, greasing, and rebuilding federal leasing and permit machinery. Part of this effort has been to use budget cuts to purge the Interior Department of individuals with incompatable political and economic philosophies, following the conservative Heritage Foundation's guidelines.</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">More visibly, the revamping has been engineered to reduce regulations - what the administration has called ''excessive red tape'' - that have restricted access of drillers and miners to certain public lands for more than a decade.</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">''Overall, Interior has achieved 55 percent of our short-term goals, which is not too bad considering the difficulty they've had getting qualified people onboard,'' observes Robert Terrell, author of the Interior section of the Heritage Foundation's recent ''report card'' on the administration requested by presidential counselor Edwin Meese III.</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The results are just starting to emerge from this shortened bureaucratic pipeline. ''We have already reduced the cost of preparing an environmental impact statement from $600,000 to $60,000 and cut the time required in half,'' Bureau of Land Management (BLM) director Robert Burford told miners at a recent conference.</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Conservationists agree that federal environmental studies had become unreasonably long and expensive. But they believe the pendulum is swinging too far in the other direction.</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">For example, they point to the trend toward substituting less comprehensive environmental assessments that omit public participation for more detailed environmental impact statements.</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The first wave of Interior Department actions affecting wilderness areas include:</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">* A favorable recommendation accompanying a draft environmental impact statement on<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> oil and gas exploration in the Washakie wilderness area adjacent to Yellowstone National Park.</span></font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">* Permission granted without public notification for slant drilling under the Capitan wilderness area in New Mexico.</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">* An exploration lease issued in an Arkansas wilderness area, accompanied by only a three-page environmental assessment.</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">* The BLM prepared similarly brief environmental assessments for proposed exploratory <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">uranium drilling in the Fifty Mile Mountain Wilderness Study Area in Utah.</span></font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">* The US Forest Service has been looking favorably upon proposed oil and gas leases in California's Los Padres National Forest, which contains several wilderness areas and is part of the proposed <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Big Sur National Park.</span></font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">And these may only be the tip of the iceberg. Overall, applications for oil, gas, and mineral exploration are pending on 182 wilderness and proposed wilderness areas, according to a Wilderness Society compilation.</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Predictably, the conservation community and liberal Democratic congressmen have denounced these moves. But surprisingly, a number of conservative Western Republicans also have expressed serious concern over the actions.</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">After the </font><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Wilderness Society </span>discovered and publicized the Capitan leases OK'd in September, Rep. Manuel Lujan Jr. (R) of New Mexico threatened to introduce a resolution to ban all oil, gas, and minerals exploration in the wilderness system in the lower 48 states.</span>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">cl11 Utilizing an emergency provision in the 1976 Federal Land Policy and Management Act, it would only take a majority vote of the House Interior Committee to order such a ban for three years. The Interior Committee, for the first time, invoked this provision earlier this year to protect the Bob Marshall Wilderness in Montana. This action is being challenged in court.</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Subsequently <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Representative Lujan </span>withdrew his resolution after Watt promised that Congress would receive 30-day advance notification of future wilderness leases.</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">''We didn't even know in my office that the (Capitan) leases had been issued, '' admits BLM's Burford. ''You can bet that won't happen again,'' he adds wrily. Despite the controversy, Watt applauded the regional BLM official who okayed the lease applications.</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">But Watt's promise was not enough for a number of other congressmen. Provoked by the recommendation to allow oil and gas exploration on 20,000 acres of the Washakie, Rep. Richard Cheney (R) of Wyoming engineered a compromise with Interior Committee chairman Morris K. Udall (D) of Arizona. The compromise requested a moratorium on further leases until June 1, 1982 - a measure the interior secretary reportedly agreed to. Thus, determination of the future of the wilderness system has been temporarily deferred.</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">While the interior secretary and his representatives repeatedly have declared that they have no intention of opening the national parks to mining and drilling , conservation leaders maintain that the declaration is a red herring. They argue that the real issue has been the fate of the nation's 80 million acre wilderness system.</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">According to the latest New York Times-CBS poll on the subject, the public is evenly divided on the issue of oil and gas leasing in wilderness areas. Yet the survey also indicates that support for the environment is surprisingly bipartisan, as the actions of Republicans Lujan and Cheney attest. As a result, confusion prevails on Capitol Hill.</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">''This is the kind of issue congressmen hate. It is detailed and programmatic. And there is no clear public position,'' observes Anthony Stout of the Government Research Corporation.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_F.Burford">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_F.Burford</a></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; color: rgb(32, 33, 34); font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>robert F. Burford</b> (February 5, 1923 – June 17, 1993) was an American politician who served in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colorado_House_of_Representatives" title="Colorado House of Representatives" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background: none;">Colorado House of Representatives</a> from the 54th district from 1975 to 1981 and as the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bureau_of_Land_Management" title="Bureau of Land Management" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background: none;">Director of the Bureau of Land Management</a> from 1981 to 1989. He served as Speaker of the Colorado House of Representatives from 1979 to 1981.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap; font-size: 11.2px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_F.Burford#cite_note-1" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background: none;">[1]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap; font-size: 11.2px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_F.Burford#cite_note-2" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background: none;">[2]</a></sup></p><h2 style="margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px; overflow: hidden; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); font-weight: normal; font-family: "Linux Libertine", Georgia, Times, serif; line-height: 1.3; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="mw-headline" id="References">References</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="font-family: sans-serif; user-select: none; font-size: small; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em; color: rgb(84, 89, 93);">[</span></span></h2><div class="reflist" style="font-size: 12.6px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; list-style-type: decimal; color: rgb(32, 33, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references" style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 3.2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none; counter-reset: mw-ref-extends-parent 0 list-item 0; list-style-type: inherit;"><li id="cite_note-1" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; counter-increment: mw-ref-extends-parent 1; counter-reset: mw-ref-extends-child 0;"><span class="mw-cite-backlink" style="user-select: none;"><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_F.Burford#cite_ref-1" aria-label="Jump up" title="Jump up" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background: none;">^{</a></b></span> }<span class="reference-text"><cite class="citation web cs1" style="font-style: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1989/06/29/out-of-interior-into-the-sunset/241b0f58-6797-42f3-97e1-b9a5f77d0635/" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 187); background: url("/w/skins/Vector/resources/common/images/external-link-ltr-icon.svg?48e54") right center no-repeat; padding-right: 13px;">"Out Of Interior, Into The Sunset"</a>. <i>The Washington Post</i>. 1989-06-29<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap" style="white-space: nowrap;">2018-09-21</span></span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=The+Washington+Post&rft.atitle=Out+Of+Interior%2C+Into+The+Sunset&rft.date=1989-06-29&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Farchive%2Fpolitics%2F1989%2F06%2F29%2Fout-of-interior-into-the-sunset%2F241b0f58-6797-42f3-97e1-b9a5f77d0635%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ARobert+F.+Burford" class="Z3988" /></span></li><li id="cite_note-2" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; counter-increment: mw-ref-extends-parent 1; counter-reset: mw-ref-extends-child 0;"><span class="mw-cite-backlink" style="user-select: none;"><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_F.Burford#cite_ref-2" aria-label="Jump up" title="Jump up" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background: none;">^{</a></b></span> }<span class="reference-text"><cite class="citation web cs1" style="font-style: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.nytimes.com/1989/07/05/us/washington-talk-farewells-fond-and-otherwise-for-land-director.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 187); background: url("/w/skins/Vector/resources/common/images/external-link-ltr-icon.svg?48e54") right center no-repeat; padding-right: 13px;">"Washington Talk; Farewells, Fond and Otherwise, for Land Director"</a>. Nytimes.com. 1989-07-05<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap" style="white-space: nowrap;">2018-09-21</span></span>.</cite></span></li></ol></div></div><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">wapo 1985</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">no lnx</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"> </font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Sections </font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Democracy Dies in Darkness</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>Lawmaker Claims Burford Benefited From Own Actions</b></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">By Cass Peterson December 14, 1985</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Robert F. Burford, director of the Interior Department's Bureau of Land Management, was accused at a House hearing yesterday of approving regulatory and policy changes that may have enhanced the value of his Colorado ranch land and two federal grazing permits held by his three sons.</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Rep. Mike Synar (D-Okla.), chairman of the Goverment Operations subcommittee on environment, energy and natural resources, said "the evidence is clear" that Burford broke a formal promise not to make any decisions affecting the grazing permits, which he transferred to his sons after taking the Interior job in 1981.</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">In the last five years, Synar said, Burford has approved numerous rules and two controversial policy changes beneficial to ranchers holding permits to graze their cattle on federal land. In at least two cases, according to documents released at the hearing, the changes proved directly beneficial to his family's permits.</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Burford disagreed, contending that he had promised to excuse himself only from decisions affecting his family's permits, and not grazing permits in general.</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">"I did not believe I was recusing myself from those general applications," he said.</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">"At the time I signed the rule changes , I did not own any grazing permits. I owned land, but the permits were not in my name," Burford said.</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Synar argued that Burford benefited from the decisions because the grazing permits affected the value of his land holdings.</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">In general, ranch land is valued according to the number of animals it can support, and the terms of a grazing permit are critical in determining herd size.</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">"The record will show that your actions had a direct effect" on the terms of the permits, Synar told the BLM chief.</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">When he was nominated for the director's job in 1981, Burford owned a 9,600-acre ranch near Grand Junction in western Colorado and held two permits to graze his cattle on nearby federal land. Federal law prohibits BLM employees from having any interest in land or resources administered by the agency.</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Burford transferred the land to Little Park Ranches Limited, a partnership consisting of himself, his former wife and three sons, and sold the grazing permits to a second partnership, Burford Industries.</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Burford retained a 25 percent interest in Little Park Ranches but was not a part of Burford Industries, which held the permits and leased land from Little Park Ranches. Burford told the Office of Government Ethics that the legal arrangement would allow him to retain interest in his land as a retirement investment.</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">The ethics office, however, decided that the arrangement would leave the BLM director "in retention of interests" to the grazing permits. A few days later, then-secretary James G. Watt granted Burford a waiver from the law after Burford signed a statement promising not to make "any decisions which directly affect Bureau of Land Management grazing permits which I now own."</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>Burford said he could not recall excusing himself from any case involving grazing permits.</b></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">According to documents gathered by Synar's panel, Burford approved two sets of regulatory changes that gave permit holders more discretion in the use of federal land, including the number of animals to be grazed there.</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">In 1982, he signed a policy statement that gave priority for federal range-improvement funds to certain categories of grazing land. A year later, a BLM advisory board in Colorado put the Burford lands into the top category for improvement funds.</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">In 1983, Burford signed a highly controversial change in policy that permitted private ranchers to hold water rights on federal lands.</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Burford acknowledged yesterday that the BLM director in Colorado protested the change, arguing that it would give the BLM no more control over federal water "than over a bar of soap in a supermarket."</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>Shortly after the new policy was issued, Burford's sons and three other ranchers filed for the water rights on their BLM grazing land, an action that could assure access to water for their animals in time of drought.</b></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" /></p><p>
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