For nearly a decade, the future of this landscape was hammered out in the Miles City Resource Management Plan, a compromise shaped by ranchers, tribes, hunters, energy companies and conservationists. Now, with one vote in Washington, Congress has thrown that bargain into doubt, and with it, decades of public-lands decisions across the West. Resource management plans serve as guidelines for how the BLM manages the public lands it oversees. The Miles City resource management plan would have reformed coal seam leases near the Powder River Basin. Resource management plans, he said, have never been submitted to Congress for review.