Forest Service using the threat of wildfires to meet timber targets
The agency has sought to minimize environmental oversight, and critics say the agency also has become incentivized to cut ...
Opinion: Beware the Trojan Horse of “affordable housing” targeting public land
Recently, some pundits have suggested that a fix for America’s housing problem is to sell off the public estate, thereby ...
State Land Office agrees to potentially historic land exchange
The New Mexico State Land Office signed an agreement that could lead to one of the largest land exchanges in New Mexican ...
2 land conservation groups square off in federal court battle
The Nature Conservancy is pitted against the Western Watersheds Project in an effort to put in reservoirs and fencing for the ...
How Interior secretary review of monuments and public lands could affect Arizona
In one of his first secretarial orders, Doug Burgum ordered staff to review public lands with an eye toward opening them to ...
New Interior secretary orders review of monuments, public lands closed to mining, drilling
In one of his first secretarial orders, Doug Burgum ordered staff to review public lands with an eye toward opening them to ...
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Days before Trump took office, Interior approved oil and gas leases for land bought during 2019 public auction
Days after President Joe Biden gave his farewell address to the nation on Jan. 15, the Bureau of Land Management approved oil ...
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Portion of Sterling Wildlife Management Area will be closed for prescribed burn to improve wetlands
SOUTHEAST IDAHO — Idaho Fish and Game's Southeast Region is working with the Bureau of Land Management and Bureau of ...
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Bureau of Land Management faces fresh challenge over oil and gas permitting
Groups like the Center for Biological Diversity and Sierra Club argue in their suit that the permitting violated the Clean ...
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This national park co-management plan considers Indigenous relationships with natural resources
A co-management plan is operating at Utah’s Bears Ears National Monument, and Kate Magargal, an anthropologist at the ...
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Bureau of Land Management Announces Free Mapping Program to Help Americans Navigate BLM Public Lands
February 11, 2025 - WASHINGTON - There’s a new tool for recreationists planning visits to public lands. The Free National ...
Bureau of Land Management, oil companies sued over drilling permits in San Joaquin Valley
A lawsuit filed by the Center for Biological Diversity, the Sierra Club, Friends of the Earth, and the California Asthma Collective, claims the expansion of oil in California's San Joaquin Valley ...