Essays on Land Management

Introduction

There are several reasons why the annual Burning Man festival is unique among mass gatherings. Held in the Black Rock section of America’s Great Basin desert in Nevada, Burning Man’s 70,000 participants construct a city that houses—and in itself functions as—a participatory performing arts space, a communal spiritual retreat, and a cathartic experience of radical self-expression (Brill 2007). Then, one week later, they tear it all down, pack everything out, and leave no trace behind. It is an anti-market event (Cesewski & Giles 2007) whose participants rely on gift-giving and barter to secure any necessities ...

Introduction

The website presents several clip from the Bureau of Land Management provide information on expected behaviour from public sector employees. There are several examples given about unethical behaviour from public sector employees. This will paper will discuss two stories of Outside business and Bribes.

A Story of Outside Business

The video presents a government official using government facilities and official time for outside business. It is clear that the government employee has an outside business of real estate agent and she uses government property and official time to perform her outside business. The employee shown in the clip uses official time of lunchtime to ...

The federal government manages the mining rights and mineral ownership on public lands as regulated by the General Mining Law of 1872 and subsequent amendments. This law was enacted to permit mining claims practices that are currently being used during the California Gold Rush of 1849. They then a decade later spread through the West. The 1872 General Mining Law was beneficial as it promoted exploration, development as well as influencing the settlement of the territories in the West between 1804 and 1853 in US. However, this law has come under a strict scrutiny due to the fact that ...