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!
These comments were submitted by The Wilderness Society addressing the Bureau of Land Management's programmatic environmental assessment for organized group activities along the Hole-in-the-Rock Road in Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument.
In a disappointing move today, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar announced a revised approach to managing wilderness-quality lands in light of the funding limitation placed on Secretarial Order 3310, also known as the Wild Lands Policy.
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.
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
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.
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.