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Joint Comments on the Supplement to the Draft PEIS for solar on public lands

January 30, 2012 - Joint comments from the solar industry and environmental organizations on the Supplement to the Draft Solar PEIS. more

TWS et al. Comments on the Supplement to the Draft Solar PEIS

January 30, 2012 - Comments filed by TWS and partners on the Supplement to the Draft Programmatic EIS for solar on public lands, January 27, 2012. more

Oil and Gas Leasing Program - Acreage Sought by Industry CY 2006 – 2011

January 24, 2012 - A summary of oil and gas leasing acreage requests for the years 2006 thru 2011. Source: Bureau of Land Management more

Keystone XL Pipeline

January 20, 2012 - more

Wilderness Under Siege - Full Report

January 19, 2012 - Since the beginning of the 112th Congress, there has been a wave of legislation seeking to systematically dismantle the laws that protect America’s wilderness and public lands. Nearly 50 years after the landmark 1964 Wilderness Act, we are witnessing a giveaway of our great outdoors to polluters and irresponsible developers, one that threatens the fabric of wild places and the clean air, clean water and economic support that they provide to surrounding communities. more

Travel Analysis Best Practices: A Review of Completed Travel Analysis Process Reports

January 10, 2012 - Whether its water, wildlife, or wildlands, roads have been identified as the major impact on the forest environment. Many national forest roads were built during the frenzied decades of the logging boom and were simply abandoned. The Forest Service currently has around 375,000 miles of known system roads – enough to travel around the earth 15 times. Many of these roads are unneeded, causing tremendous environmental damage, and should be reclaimed and reforested. more

2011 CAPE Awards Detail

December 16, 2011 - The BLM Action Center is proud to present the 2011 CAPE awards – a top ten list of this year’s greatest moments for the spectacular landscapes managed by the BLM. The Comparative Analysis of Particular Excellence (CAPE) rating system, inspired by the superhero-like character of the Action Center team (able to leap tall stacks of Resource Management Plans in a single bound), ranges from one CAPE on the low end (worth a pat on the back) to five CAPEs on the high end (HUGE PROGRESS-- WAY TO GO!). more