Many of our treasured western wild lands managed by the Bureau of Land Management are at risk to destructive development as a result of Bush administration's 2003 "No More Wilderness" policy and the recent funding limitation on Secretary Salazar's Wild Lands policy.
In December 2010, the BLM released the Draft Programmatic EIS for the agency's solar program in Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, and Utah.
These scoping comments on the Rock Springs Resource Management Plan (Wyoming) were submitted to BLM on behalf of The Wilderness Society, Center for Native Ecosystems, and Colorado Environmental Coalition on April 4, 2011.
The Bureau of Land Management must inventory, designate, and protect scenic qualities on public lands. This fact sheet provides an overview of the BLM's Visual Resource Management system and opportunities for public involvement.
Secretarial Order 3310 sets out a policy for designating and managing Wild Lands managed by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM). Following this Order, the BLM released three new manuals for implementing the policy, addressing:
IM 2010-117 (issued May 17, 2010) establishes, among other oil and gas reforms, a new oil and gas leasing process for public lands. This flowchart describes the stages of the new process.
On March 9, 2011 The Wilderness Society sent this letter to the subcommittee of the House of Representatives about to consider legislation to prevent the EPA from protecting public health. The bill, HR 910, introduced by Rep Upton (R-MI), is premised on bad science and the pleadings of pol
Global warming is already affecting Washington, and will continue to do so for decades to come. In the absence of national policy that jumpstarts the clean energy economy by ramping down dangerous carbon emissions, our economy and wildlands are at an even greater risk.