The Nation : Land-Swap Plan Reduced

A trimmed-down plan for two big federal agencies to exchange millions of acres of public land has been sent to Congress, the Reagan Administration announced. When the proposal was announced more than a year ago, it called for the Bureau of Land Management and the Forest Service to swap a net of 34 million acres, closing scores of offices and eliminating as many as 900 jobs. The revised proposal would mean land exchanges of about 25 million acres and only half as many lost jobs. Most of the land is in the western half of the United States.