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Earth Day in Roubideau Canyon

April 23, 2012 By Barbara Hawke

Roubideau Canyon

Credit: Barbara Hawke

Earth Day was celebrated in unique ways in the small towns across western Colorado. In Montrose I joined a small group to honor the gifts of the natural world at a pre-dawn ceremony near the Ute Indian Museum. We gathered around Montrose’s  Peace Pole with a chorus of songbirds as our backdrop, near the flowing Uncompahgre River. Read more

Jeff Jarvis leadership award handed out to Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument leader

February 27, 2012 By Phil Hanceford

Wolverine Bench- within the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument

Credit: Photo by the Bureau of Land Management

Venture into Southern Utah and you will find yourself surrounded by multicolored cliffs, plateaus, mesas, buttes, pinnacles and canyons that glow in the sunlight. Nearly two million acres of this land make up the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument- a scientific and geological wonder within a spectacular wilderness.  Read more

The Numbers Don’t Lie – BLM lease sales undercut industry claims

January 12, 2012 By Neil Shader

Gas well in Wyoming

Credit: BLM

To hear the oil and gas industry tell it, we just aren’t drilling enough. Read more

Great Outdoors Giveaway

January 10, 2012 By Emily Diamond-Falk

High Steens WSA

Credit: BLM

H.R. 1581, “The Great Outdoors Giveaway”  Read more

New Mexico’s Otero Mesa Threatened: Help protect a precious desert grassland

July 20, 2011 By Juli Slivka

Otero Mesa pronghorn in New Mexico

Credit: Nathan Newcomer

The Bureau of Land Management and New Mexico Mining and Minerals Division have issued Geovic Mining Corp., a permit to conduct exploratory drilling on Otero Mesa this summer. We need your help now! Ask BLM Director Bob Abbey to step in and prevent this mining on Otero Mesa. Read more

Open Season on Open Spaces: The biggest attack in history?

April 28, 2011 By Christopher Lancette

When did it become open season on our open spaces? First, Congress slashed conservation and environmental programs. Then we saw a backroom deal that stopped the BLM’s new Wildlands policy in its tracks. Now, to add insult to injury, we’re facing a new bill that could end efforts to protect approximately 60 million acres. Read more

Reality Check: The Facts About Protecting America’s Wild Lands

April 25, 2011 By Juli Slivka

Our western wild lands were dealt a heavy blow recently when Congress passed a bill to fund the federal government through the remainder of fiscal year with a provision that prohibits the use of funds to implement the Bureau of Land Management’s Wild Lands policy. Read more

True Grit: Should the oil and gas industry return non-producing lands to taxpayers

April 5, 2011 By Pete Morton, Ph.D.

It appears that the oil and gas industry can’t get their talking points straight about the energy potential of all the public wild lands they’re after. On one hand, when asked how much oil and natural gas a coveted area holds, industry lobbyists make bold predictions about abundant supply.  But once industry actually has access to public land the prospects dim considerably.  Read more