The BLM is funded, it seems, with more workers and is more intensively managed. It seems anyway. All of the BLM is intended to be grazed, though some is not. Any national forest can be grazed also with an appropriate lease and much of it is.

Iwould tend toagree that any JERK who would shoot the signs is a JERK who would shoot livestock or game out of season for that matter. They, thankfully, area minority.

I have found the BLM officers to be very friendly and helpful. In fact, making friends with them and helping out on occasionhas given me alot of "secret" (at least not well known) tips on gaining access to some out of the way BLM parcels. The attitude of BLM is great I think. Foot access is never denied, hunting access is almost never denied, they want the resource to be used and enjoyed respectfully.I have found that they have admiration for the whole of it (the land), having knowledge of the local geological, botanical, and zoological features and this admiration and knowledge is something they desire the public to share. They just take the job of protecting the resource seriously enough to close roads in wet weather and to restrict target shooting to one location only.