On December 23, 2010, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar announced a new policy that requires the Bureau of Land Management to inventory its lands for wilderness characteristics and protect those values.
The Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 gave the Bureau of Land Management authority to inventory its lands for wilderness characteristics and protect those values by designating wilderness study areas.
In a letter to Congress, The Wilderness Society's Vice President for Public Policy, Melanie Beller asks Members and Senators to send a message to the EPA thanking them for doing all they can do to protect our public health.
The purpose of the stewardship contracting authority is to allow public land managers to achieve land management goals while meeting local rural community needs.
In the sizzling Chihuahuan desert of New Mexico, blue skies are the norm and the sun packs a punch, making for huge solar development potential in the region.
Colorado is already known nationally and around the world as a clean energy leader, and the state’s many days of strong, high-elevation sun will provide fuel for much more renewable energy to come.