Bureau of Land Management

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Wyo. BLM defers leasing in Adobe Town area

AP News 16 days ago

Wyoming BLM defers auction of oil, gas leases near Adobe Town, seeks Washington guidance The U.S. Bureau of Land Management said Wednesday that it was deferring the auction of controversial oil and gas leases in the high desert Adobe Town area in ...

Ariz. governor opposes halt on new mining claims

AP News 19 days ago

Arizona governor objects to federal halt on new mining claims near Grand Canyon Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer objects to a ban on filing new mining claims on nearly 1 million acres of federal land in northern Arizona for two years while a ...

River Otters Return

AP News 29 days ago

This image shows the Rio Pueblo de Taos near Taos, N.M., on Friday, Oct. 23, 2009. Taos Pueblo, the Bureau of Land Management, the state Game and Fish Department and conservationists released six otters from Washington state in the river as part ...

6 wild otters from Wash. released into NM river

AP News 29 days ago

6 Wash. otters released into river in northern New Mexico as part of reintroduction effort The sun had barely peaked over the Taos Mountains. A half-dozen river otters from the Pacific Northwest seemed at home after being released Friday into the ice ...

BLM nets $13 million in quarterly lease sale

AP News 30 days ago

BLM nets $13 million in quarterly sale of oil and natural gas leases in 4 states The Bureau of Land Management netted more than $13 million from its quarterly sale of 48 oil and natural gas leases in New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas ...

Federal judge shutters Idaho grazing allotment

AP News 33 days ago

Federal judge shutters Idaho grazing allotment to protect wild bighorns A federal judge has ordered a western Idaho rancher to keep his sheep off his family's traditional grazing ground on public land to protect wild native bighorns. Federal land managers on Monday ...

Wild horse plan rekindles cattle grazing debate

AP News 35 days ago

Wild horse defenders criticize plan to manage mustangs, urge removal of cattle in West A new federal proposal to manage wild horses is rekindling debate over another fixture of the Western range: cattle. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar last week proposed moving thousands ...

Saving Western mustangs

Las Vegas Sun 39 days ago

New plan is announced that would establish horse preserves in the Midwest and East One of the enduring symbols of the West, the wild horse, is fortunate to have supporters in the Obama administration. Last weekÕs announcement by Interior Secretary Ken Salazar ...

Salazar OKs some drilling on disputed Utah lands

AP News 44 days ago

Oil and gas drilling OK'd on some disputed Utah lands Bush administration had pushed to lease Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said Thursday that oil and gas drilling will be permitted on some of the Utah land parcels near national parks that were ...

Wild Horses

AP News 45 days ago

In this image released by the Department of the Interior's Bureau of Land Management, a wild horse is seen after a Bureau of Land Management roundup at the Caliante Complex gather near Panaca, Nev., on Monday, Oct. 5, 2009. Thousands of mustangs ...

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