Scottish Natural Heritage (SNH) said landowners and land managers deserved thanks for their part in helping the raptors establish territories.

BBC: Record year for sea eagle pairs

Federal land managers recently auctioned off thousands of acres of new leases for drilling in an area considered crucial ferret habitat.

NPR: Drilling to Begin in Colorado Ferret Habitat

The legislation will streamline previously excessive bureaucratic procedures so that federal land managers can begin thinning up to 20 million acres in high-risk areas.

FORBES: Fact and Comment

But first, across the US, land managers are trying to find ways to slow down the loss of open space and water sources, many of them threatened by rampant development.

NPR: Saving Ranchland from Suburban Sprawl

Feral pigs have already taken over Texas and are expanding their numbers in other states, but federal and state land managers think they have a chance to tip the balance in New Mexico.

NPR: $1M Pilot Project Aims To Take Out Feral Pigs

Ecologists and land managers have known about the underlying problem for decades: putting out wildfires immediately just creates more tinder, so that the next fire is likely to be bigger and harder to control.

FORBES: Forests and Climate Change: a Combustible Combination

Land's End managers said the name was in Cornish and other languages beside the entrance.

BBC: Land's End Cornish translation removal criticised

Open Data campaigners claim that ministers are keener than they should be to listen to managers at the Ordnance Survey, the Land Registry and the Met Office who want to charge for their data rather than make it free.

BBC: Midata: Will the public share government's enthusiasm?

The problem afflicts managers at hundreds of companies, such as Land O'Lakes and American General Corp.

FORBES: Taxing Matters: Saving to the max

Increasingly, wealth managers are also realising that women in the Gulf region are sitting on fortunes in cash, land and even jewellery.

ECONOMIST: Finance in the Middle East