U.S. land agency seeks to ID public parcels that lack access

Billings, Mont. • U.S. land managers say they will release by mid-March a priority list of federal lands that need but don’t have public access.U.S. Bureau of Land Management officials said they want people to nominate lands where the public could legally hunt, fish or pursue other recreational purposes, except the lands have limited or no access.The agency manages 383,000 square miles of land, primarily in western states.The public access initiative is mandated under a sweeping conse