Legal Opinion
New Mexico Ex Rel. Richardson v. Bureau of Land Management
Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
Decided April 28, 2009No. 06-2352, 06-2353, 06-2354PublishedCited by 197 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LUCERO, Circuit Judge.
This litigation concerns the environmental fate of New Mexico’s Otero Mesa, the largest publicly-owned expanse of undisturbed Chihuahuan Desert grassland in the United States. From 1998 to 2004, the Bureau of Land Management (“BLM” or “the Agency”) conducted a large-scale land management planning process for federal fluid minerals development in Sierra and Otero Counties, where the Mesa is located. Ultimately, the Agency opened the majority of the Mesa to development, subject to a stipulation that only 5% of the surface of the Mesa could be in use at any one time.…
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