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Feds to Open Tens of Thousands of Acres of Colorado Wilderness to Oil Drilling

Wildlife habitat, endangered animals and recreation could all be at risk in state's biggest public land sale in modern history.

Capital & Main

Feds planning to remove 14,000 wild horses from the West in controversial helicopter round-ups due to drought and wildfire concerns

The planned removal has angered animal rights advocates who are urging the Bureau of Land Management to come up with a more humane solution

The Independent UK

Advocates sue Trump administration after approval of plan to put a road through iconic Utah conservation area

The highway plan was originally canceled by the Biden administration, but was revived after President Donald Trump took office

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Winter drilling program in Alaska petroleum preserve can proceed, judge rules

A federal judge has refused to block a winter oil and gas exploration project in the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska that opponents said was improperly analyzed by the federal government

The Independent UK

Bureau of Land Management Says Bison Are Not Livestock, Obstructing Plans for a Huge Private Prairie Reserve

The American Prairie nonprofit seeks to create a 5,000-square-mile prairie reserve in Montana where buffalo may roam and antelope play.

Reason

A beloved national monument is under threat from Utah Republicans. Activists are calling to save the ‘crown jewel’

The monument came under threat during the previous Trump administration

The Independent UK

Oil and Gas Forecast for New Mexico’s San Juan Basin: Going, Going …

An updated Bureau of Land Management report offers a mixed outlook for oil and gas production in the state’s second largest drilling basin.

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More Public Lands Could Be Sold, onX and TRCP Built a Map Showing What's At Stake

onX teamed up with the Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership to build a map showcasing the public lands that the Bureau of Land Management has marked to potentially sell off through normal means.

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Elon Musk's DOGE Controls Your Public Lands Now

DOGE—the Department of Government Efficiency—controls your public lands now. I wish I was kidding, but on April 17th, supposed Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum handed Elon Musk the entirety of America's accumulated public lands. That includes national parks, Bureau of Land Management, and Forestry lands, as well as the…

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National monuments have grown and shrunk under US presidents for over a century thanks to one law: The Antiquities Act

America’s public lands, from its majestic national parks to its vast national forests, are at the heart of the country’s identity.

The Conversation

Utah Changes Its Public Lands Supreme Court Lawsuit, States It Wants to Sell Land

Utah's elected officials have an incredibly unpopular lawsuit on their hands. No, it's not about bringing our new hockey team to the Beehive state, but rather its federal lawsuit attempting to seize Bureau of Land Management acreage that the state houses within its borders. In its original complaint, Utah's AG argued…

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Feds approve scaled-down Idaho wind farm near historic Japanese American incarceration site

The federal government has approved a scaled-down wind farm in Idaho over local opposition, including from groups concerned about its proximity to a historic site where Japanese Americans were incarcerated during World War II

The Independent UK

Federal Job Relocation Plan Poses Challenges For Agencies

Learn about the challenges and impacts of relocating federal jobs outside Washington, DC, through the case of the Bureau of Land Management's move to Grand...

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Even More States Are Trying to Steal Your Public Land

Despite my issues with how the Bureau of Land Management manages our public lands, and there are countless things I find wrong with its implementations, the land that part of the federal government manages is still at least our land. It hasn't been sold off, leased out, or otherwise walled…

The Independent UK

Bureau of Land Management shrinks proposed size of controversial Idaho wind farm project

The federal Bureau of Land Management's preferred alternative for a proposed large-scale wind energy farm in southern Idaho would shrink the size by nearly half and keep it farther away from a national historic site

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‘How Do You Approve an Underground Toxic Waste Dump Without Telling Nobody?’

An oil and gas firm planned to convert a New Mexico water well into a disposal site for toxic wastewater. A familiar face stood in its way.

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New Mexico Bureau of Land Management Office Scraps Proposed Fossil Fuel Regulations

Ten years of meetings and plans abruptly dumped; future plans uncertain.

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Spring-loaded ‘cyanide bombs’ were planted to take out coyotes. They ended up killing thousands of pets

The US Bureau of Land Management has halted the use of spring-loaded traps that disperse cyanide powder to kill coyotes and other livestock predators

The Independent UK

US agency to end use of 'cyanide bomb' to kill coyotes and other predators, citing safety concerns

The U.S. Bureau of Land Management has halted the use of spring-loaded traps that disperse cyanide powder to kill coyotes and other livestock predators

The Independent UK

Native American tribes fight US over a proposed $10B renewable energy transmission line

Work on a $10 billion project to funnel renewable energy across western states has come to a halt in southwestern Arizona

The Independent UK

Environmentalists warn of intent to sue over snail species living near Nevada lithium mine

Environmentalists are poised to return to court in an ongoing legal battle with the Biden administration over a Nevada lithium mine

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Fossil fuel rules catch Western towns between old economies and new green goals

The Biden administration is trying to dramatically change how and where oil and gas drilling occurs on federal land, which is getting mixed reviews in longtime drilling boom-towns.

The Independent UK

California's big bloom aids seed collectors as climate change and wildfires threaten desert species

After massive winter downpours, conservationists in California are eager to gather desert seeds as an insurance policy against a hotter and drier future

The Conversation

3 reasons the Willow Arctic oil drilling project was approved – it's the latest battle in a long fight over Alaska's North Slope

For more than six decades, Alaska’s North Slope has been a focus of intense controversy over oil development and wilderness protection, with no end in sight. Willow field, a 600-million-barrel, US$8 billion oil project recently approved by the Biden administration – to the outrage of environmental and climate activists –…

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