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Show 119 the money or the desire to return the land to its natural state after they've used it. Coal miners who use strip mining methods will not go back to cover the ugly scars in the earth with soil and seedlings - unless they're forced to. And the federal government has the clout, through the Bureau of Land Management, to make this reclaimation happen. Yet the federal government, and the BLM, are sympathetic to the needs of all the people. As part of a program vihich expresses the Bureau's concern for the right way to proceed, Jan lived and studied in Phoenix, Arizona from January to May of I98O. At the BLM Training Center, she sat in classes each weekday listening to lectures on such topics as "Ethics in Government," "Public Land History," and "An Introduction to the Federal Land Policy and Management Act." Jan learned the laws, regulations and policies of rangeland management, and along with 50 other BLM employees who were taking the course, too, she learned how to conduct herself in live courtroom situations - she might someday be called upon to testify in a case such as the BLM had brought against the Cotter Corporation. In classrooms where the walls viere hung with maps of each of the states where the BLM administers land, the work demanded concentration, but on weekends, Jan had a chance to "get a little fresh air" while she toured the Sonora Desert around Phoenix. "It was most beautiful in May," Jan recalls, "because that's when all the palo verdes were blooming. Palo verde means green stick in Spanish, and that's vihat they look like - green sticks with bright yellow flowers. And there were octillo, with their ten-foot-tall stalks |