Former BLM employee wins appeal on whistleblower retaliation charges A federal administrative review board has confirmed an earlier federal law judge ruling in favor of former Bureau of Land Management (BLM) employee Earle Dixon, who had charged his October, 2004, firing as the project manager for the BLM at the Anaconda Mine in Yerington was in retaliation for whistleblower activities and, as a result, it violated whistleblower protective regulations. Dixon was an environmental protection specialist assigned to the BLM Carson City office starting in October of 2003 before he was fired just prior to the conclusion of his one-year probationary period (Oct. 5, 2004). A month later, he filed a complaint with the federal Department of Labor (DOL), chagging he was fired because of his complaints. Dixon was hired as a two-year term employee whose main task was managing the cleanup of the Yerington copper mine site, the order said. Part of the mine site is on BLM land, which prompted that agency's involvement....