PUBLIC LANDS
Before Malheur, there was Sugar Pine
Use the buddy system. Keep an eye on Twitter. And you may just have to postpone a meeting or two. These are some of the steps recommended for federal officials whose agency is caught in a public lands feud with heavily armed libertarian protesters. More than 270 pages of Bureau of Land Management records obtained by Greenwire under the Freedom of Information Act give a behind-the-scenes glimpse of how the agency responded to activists who descended on Josephine County, Ore., in a protest last spring.