U.S. Bureau of Land Management

A Colorado town that reinvented itself and left behind its fossil fuel economy is surrounded by public lands about to be auctioned to oil companies.

The Bureau of Land Management posted a 77-page report online that included unique identifiers for priceless artifacts in Utah.

By denying the severity of the drought, Nevada ranchers fought to reopen public lands that had been closed to grazing. But some of these same ranchers have collected drought subsidies from the government.