Bureau of Land Management

Colorado Oil And Gas Land Lease Delayed

AP | Posted 05.03.2012

Read More: Energy, Colorado Fracking, Video, Blm Colorado Auction, Colorado Oil, Blm, Bureau of Land Management, Blm Colorado Oil Gas Lease, Blm Colorado, Blm Land Lease, Colorado Oil and Gas, Green News

PAONIA, Colo. (AP) — The Bureau of Land Management is putting off plans to lease 30,000 acres for oil and gas development in Colorado's North Fork V...

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Is 'Over The River' Through The Woods?

Posted 03.28.2012

Read More: Video, Arkansas River, State Patrol, Denver News, Jeanne-Claude, Over the River Delays, Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Over the River Project, Colorado Department of Transportation, Christo River Project, Over the River Pushed Back, Bureau of Land Management, Blm, Denver Colorado, Colorado, Denver News

Christo's 'Over The River' project just took another step forward. On Tuesday, commissioners in Fremont County approved a permit for the fabric art pr...

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Christo's 'Over The River' Pushed Back Again

Posted 02.22.2012

Read More: Video, Arkansas River, Denver News, State Patrol, Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Over the River Delays, Jeanne-Claude, Colorado Department of Transportation, Over the River Project, Over the River Pushed Back, Christo River Project, Blm, Bureau of Land Management, Denver Colorado, Colorado, Denver News

Fabric artist Christo is yet again pushing back the date for his "Over the River" project which proposes to hang 5.9 miles of aluminum coated fabric p...

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Nevada BLM Chief: Employees Should Blow The Whistle On Mustang Abuses

AP | SCOTT SONNER | Posted 02.25.2012

Read More: Video, Blm Nevada, Bureau of Land Management, Amy Lueders, Blm, Bureau of Land Management Nevada, Amy Lueders Blm, Ap, Green News

RENO, Nev. (AP) — The head of the U.S. Bureau of Land Management in Nevada is appealing to agency employees to step up and blow the whistle on any a...

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Finding Our Voices

Michael Brune | Posted 02.19.2012

Read More: Alton-Coal-Development, Bryce Canyon, Bureau of Land Management, Coal-Strip-Mines, Coal, Green News

If the BLM's plan was to quietly slip in and out of town and avoid a public confrontation, then it seriously miscalculated -- and underestimated both the outrage and the ingenuity that a proposal to strip-mine next to one of our most treasured national parks could generate.

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How The BLMs Biggest Ecology Study "Got It All Wrong"

AP | By MEAD GRUVER | Posted 12.01.2011

Read More: Rapid Ecoregional Assessment Program, Largest Blm Study Flawed, Bureau of Land Management, Blm, Video, Grazing Blm Land, Blm Livestock Policies, Denver News

CHEYENNE, Wyo. -- An environmental group on Wednesday accused the U.S. Bureau of Land Management of neglecting science in favor of politics while the ...

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The Future of America's Conservation Lands

Bill Meadows | Posted 01.18.2012

Read More: Department of Interior, Bureau of Land Management, Protected Lands, National Landscape Conservation System, Conservation Lands, National Parks, Green News

The National Landscape Conservation System contains an enormous number of our nation's wildest and most historically significant public lands.

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Artist Christo Gives National Gallery 2 Collages

AP | BRETT ZONGKER | Posted 01.08.2012

Read More: Christo, Bureau of Land Management, Video, National Gallery, National Gallery of Art, Ken Salazar, Jeanne-Claude, DC News

WASHINGTON -- The artist Christo is giving two original collages from his upcoming "Over The River" project to the National Gallery of Art in Washingt...

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'Over The River' Project Waiting On The Locals

AP | CATHERINE TSAI | Posted 01.07.2012

Read More: Video, Arkansas River, State Patrol, Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Jeanne-Claude, Colorado Department of Transportation, Over the River Project, Christo River Project, Blm, Bureau of Land Management, Denver News

DENVER — Federal land managers announced a final decision Monday approving Christo's art proposal to suspend 5.9 miles worth of silvery, translu...

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Standing Up for Our Western Lands and Heritage

Bill Eikenberry | Posted 11.23.2011

Read More: Interior Department, Public Lands, Oil Drilling, Oil, Bureau of Land Management, Ken Salazar, Wyoming, Gulf Oil Spill, Air Pollution, Categorical-Exclusions, Wildlife, Green News

Despite claims by oil and gas companies, the truth is that we can have both more responsible energy development and common sense protections for western lands.

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Woman Saves 60 Horses From Their Deaths

Posted 11.19.2011

Read More: Liz Lecoq-Currier, Video, Denver Impact, Horse-Slaughterhouse, Wild Horses, Horses, Bureau of Land Management, Mexico, Rescued Horses, American Horse Slaughter Prevention Act of 2011, Horse Meat, Canada, Denver News

In the last week of August, Elizabeth Lecoq-Currier drove past a pasture of 60 horses in Crested Butte that she soon found out were bound for the slau...

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Wild Horse Policy Scrutinized In Wyoming

AP | By MEAD GRUVER | Posted 11.12.2011

Read More: Wyoming Horses, US Horses, Horses, Blm, Bureau of Land Management, Animals, Wild Horse Policy, US Bureau Land Management, Green News

EDEN, Wyo. -- The mares received the equine equivalent of the pill and the stallions remained intact. The dust has settled from a government roundup ...

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Judge Takes BLM To Task Over Wild Horse Roundup Misconduct

AP | By SCOTT SONNER | Posted 10.31.2011

Read More: Mustang Roundup, Wild Horse Freedom Federation, Cloud Foundation, Mustangs, Animal Rights, Nevada News, Wild Horses, Wild Mustangs, Wild Horse Roundup, Blm, Bureau of Land Management, Denver News

RENO, Nev. -- A federal judge in Nevada is taking the U.S. government to task for misconduct by a helicopter contractor during one of the biggest must...

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BLM Approves Christo's Arkansas River Project With Few Changes

AP | By CATHERINE TSAI | Posted 09.27.2011

Read More: Christo Fabric Artist, Christo, Arkansas River Project Christo, Denver News, Christo's Over the River Project, Over the River Project, Christo Arkansas River, Fabric Artist Christo, Blm, Bureau of Land Management, Artist Christo, Denver News

DENVER -- Artist Christo's plan to suspend huge fabric panels over parts of the heavily rafted Arkansas River in Colorado is largely intact under a ve...

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Why Liberals Should Be Outraged by the Tim DeChristopher Sentence

Jay Michaelson | Posted 09.26.2011

Read More: Michele Bachmann, Populism, Liberals, Exxon Mobil, Bureau of Land Management, Tim Dechristopher, Climate Change, Tea Party, Green News

DeChristopher's act was definitely a crime. A victimless crime, and an act of civil disobedience, but a crime nonetheless. The guilty verdict, delivered on March 3, was expected. But the auction itself was also a crime.

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Solar Has Bright Prospects Throughout The West

AP | CATHERINE TSAI | Posted 09.13.2011

Read More: Interior Department, Solar Development Zones, Solar Energy, Denver News, Department of Interior, Bureau of Land Management, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar, Mike Pool, Denver Colorado, Ken Salazar, Green Energy, Video, Denver News

DENVER — Federal officials are refining their plan for speeding up solar energy development in zones of public lands in six western states, afte...

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Chirsto To Suspend Fabric Over Parts Of Arkansas River

AP | Posted 08.25.2011

Read More: Christo, Fabric Panels, Fabric Artist, Arkansas River, Fabric Art, Public Art, Denver News, Colo Parks Rivers, Parks and Rivers, US 50, Bureau of Land Management, Blm, Colorado State Parks, Colorado State Parks Board, Christo Artist, Denver News

SALIDA, Colo. -- The Colorado State Parks Board approved an agreement Friday for the artist Christo to pay $550,000 to state parks to carry out his Ov...

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Emergency Disaster Declaration Issued For Las Animas Fires

The Huffington Post | Andrea Rael | Posted 08.02.2011

Read More: U.S. Forest Service, Department of Defense, Las Animas County, New Mexico, Division of Emergency Management, Governor Hickenlooper, Purgatoire Fire, Bureau of Land Management, Fire Emergency for Las Animas, Trinidad, Emergency Disaster Declaration Issued, Denver News, The Bear Fire, Denver News

Governor Hickenlooper declared an emergency disaster for the fires raging in Las Animas County. The Purgatoire and Bear fires have already burned clos...

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BLM Will Give Oil Shale Development In The West A Fresh Look

Posted 06.13.2011

Read More: Domestic Energy, Oil Shale, Bureau of Land Management, Interior Department, Oil and Gas, Denver News

The federal Bureau of Land Management announced on Wednesday that it is prepared to begin a process to take a fresh look at commercial oil shale devel...

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Oh My Darling Party Line

Carl Pope | Posted 05.28.2011

Read More: Oil Leases, Bureau of Land Management, Gop, Fox News, Newt Gingrich, Koch Brothers, Barack Obama, Green News

The reactionary right is in the process of developing its own full-scale party line, with Fox News playing the role of Pravda. The most recent example is the issue of developing oil reserves on public lands.

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Bidder 70

Robert Redford | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Public Lands, Big Oil, Economy, Mining, Epa, Oil, Green, Environment, Bureau of Land Management, Conservation, Tim Dechristopher, National Parks, Utah, Green News

Major financial institutions in this country brought the nation's economy to its knees. And yet the federal government prosecuted this young activist's act of civil disobedience.

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House Votes To Cut BLM Budget Over Wild Horse Roundups In West

AP | SCOTT SONNER | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: House BLM Budget, Bureau of Land Management, Dan Burton, Interior Department, Blm, Wild Horses, Denver News

RENO, Nev. — The U.S. House approved an amendment on a voice vote Wednesday that would cut the Bureau of Land Management's budget by $2 million ...

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Western Counties Plot Challenge To Salazar's 'Wild Lands' Policy

The New York Times | PHIL TAYLOR | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: The West, Bureau of Land Management, Public Land, Wild Lands, Ken Salazar, Utah, Wyoming, Denver News

Utah and Wyoming counties are considering a legal challenge to an Interior Department policy ordering field personnel to inventory roadless lands and ...

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A Gift of Wilderness

Mike Matz | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Pew Environment Group, Obama Administration, Bureau of Land Management, Conservation, Campaign for America's Wilderness, Wilderness, Ken Salazar, Yellowstone, National Parks, Green News

The revised approach to the largest segment of our public lands will give us the chance to make sure our children can enjoy clean water, scenic views and recreational activities.

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Interior Announces Restoration Of Wilderness Rules For Public Lands

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mark Udall, No More Wilderness, Public Lands, Interior Department, Bureau of Land Management, Ken Salazar, Wilderness Rule, Blm, Bob Abbey, Denver News

(ASSOCIATED PRESS) DENVER (AP) -- The Obama administration plans to reverse a Bush-era policy and make millions of undeveloped acres of land once aga...

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