10.2190/PJHG-JBAN-EWYC-JQ49 PJHGJBANEWYCJQ49 1 Interest Groups and the Implementation of Public Lands Programs: Conformity or Capture? 237 257 20020509 20020509 20020509 20020509 PJHGJBANEWYCJQ49.pdf http://baywood.metapress.com/link.asp?target=contribution&id=PJHGJBANEWYCJQ49 4 Charles Davis Sandra Davis Department of Political Science, Colorado State University, Ft. Collins The purpose of this article was to examine public lands decision making in Wyoming with a particular emphasis on relationships between the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) administrators and their constituencies. Did this agency exhibit symptoms of "regulatory capture" in view of the Sagebrush Rebellion and the election of a development-oriented president in 1980, or did it, in fact, institutionalize pluralistic access patterns as a result of 1970s environmental legislation? The authors analyzed these questions using data from a survey of federal resource administrators and Wyoming citizens judged to be involved and influential in affecting land use decisions (including representatives from resource user groups, environmental organizations, and advisory boards). They concluded that public lands decisions as perceived by professional administrators and organizational participants tended to represent multiple rather than single interests, thereby rejecting the hypothesis that BLM is dominated by a particular group or industry.

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