Bureau of Land Management
The move is a "perfect representation" of how the Trump administration views America's public lands, one critic said.
Organizers of the annual event in the Nevada desert say Bureau of Land Management permit requirements are “untenable.”
The plan would end a five-year moratorium in the state on leasing federal public land to oil companies.
The cash-strapped company announced last year a plan to acquire mineral rights at a copper deposit within the original boundary of Grand Staircase-Escalante.
WHAT'S HAPPENING
The Bureau of Land Management is looking to sell 70 acres of conservation land to a limestone mining company that unlawfully discarded waste materials on it.
The Department of Interior is quietly preparing to offer hundreds of thousands of acres of public land for leasing to energy companies.
An Interior Department official claims Secretary Ryan Zinke "did not see the proposal before it went out and was not happy about it."
A GOP state lawmaker in Utah could score big from a proposed “disposal” of more than 1,600 acres that Trump stripped from Grand Staircase-Escalante.
The release of the report is the latest controversy in an intensifying debate about how to protect the nation’s heritage as development and tourism explode across the West.
Tribes and their environmentalist allies fear for cultural sites and endangered species in California’s “Serengeti.”