(Salt Lake City, UT) — An environmental group is accusing the Bureau of Land Management of damaging a Utah site containing historic dinosaur tracks. The Center for Biological Diversity says the agency has driven over and destroyed up to 30-percent of the Mill Canyon Dinosaur Tracksite near Moab while trying […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) — Utahns wanting to cut their own Christmas trees can start getting permits from the Bureau of Land Management next week. The agency will begin accepting applications online and at district offices on Monday. Permits cost ten-dollars each, with a limit of up to five permits […]
(St. George, UT) — Governor Cox and Lieutenant Governor Henderson are upset with the U.S. Department of the Interior’s plans to relocate the Bureau of Land Management’s headquarters. Last week, Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland announced her plans to rebuild and strengthen the BLM to better serve the American […]
SALT LAKE CITY — With thousands of visitors expected to spend their Fourth of July weekend enjoying the outdoors, the risk of human-caused wildfire increases. Fire restrictions are in effect across all public lands managed by the Bureau of Land Management in Utah to help reduce the risk of wildfires […]
RENO, Nev. (AP) — Federal land managers say it will take two decades and cost more than $1 billion over the first six years alone to slash wild horse populations to sustainable levels on U.S. rangeland. The Bureau of Land Management’s latest plans envision capturing 200,000 mustangs over the next […]
SALT LAKE CITY (The Salt Lake Tribune) — The Bureau of Land Management has proposed developing a parking lot and making other changes at a heavily used hiking trail in Bears Ears National Monument in Utah. The Salt Lake Tribune reported that about 8,000 people annually pay a day-use fee […]
In a Facebook post on Mar. 26 the Juab County Sheriff’s Office shared their support of shutting down the Little Sahara Recreation Area in Juab County. In the press release it was stated that “due to the COVID-19 Pandemic, we are in support of the Bureau of Land Management’s temporary […]
BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A judge in Idaho has overturned a federal directive to curtail environmental review and eliminate mandatory public comment periods concerning oil and gas leasing on some public lands. The Center for Biological Diversity says in a statement that the U.S. magistrate judge vacated five oil and […]
LAS VEGAS (Las Vegas Review-Journal) — Land management authorities have completed removing more than a thousand wild horses in Nevada and Utah. The Las Vegas Review-Journal reported that the Bureau of Land Management gathered 1,716 horses from herd management areas in Lincoln County in Nevada and Iron and Beaver counties […]
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The Bureau of Land Management has announced plans to fund 11,000 miles of strategic fuel breaks in Idaho, Oregon, Washington, California, Nevada and Utah in an effort to help control wildfires. Fuel breaks are intended to create breaks in vegetation that slow a blaze’s progress and […]
