Letter: Curtail BLM’s bad land management practices

“Habitat restoration.” “Watershed improvement.” The Bureau of Land Management’s talk sounds good, but there’s a less sanguine descriptor of the agency’s “treatment” of public lands: “chaining.” Chaining involves ripping native trees out by their roots, destroying habitat for countless species — some imperiled and declining — and potentially damaging archaeological sites.Infrequently, chaining is beneficial. It may crea