Trump’s federal hiring freeze halts onboarding of federal firefighting crews ahead of wildfire season
The federal hiring freeze implemented by President Donald Trump has affected the hiring of a crucial group of federal workers ...
Alaska plane crash updates: Bodies of all 10 victims recovered, identified
The aircraft operated by Bering Air dropped off the radar on Thursday afternoon. The bodies of all 10 onboard were recovered ...
State Land Office agrees to potentially historic land exchange
The New Mexico State Land Office signed an agreement that could lead to one of the largest land exchanges in New Mexican ...
2 land conservation groups square off in federal court battle
The Nature Conservancy is pitted against the Western Watersheds Project in an effort to put in reservoirs and fencing for the ...
How Interior secretary review of monuments and public lands could affect Arizona
In one of his first secretarial orders, Doug Burgum ordered staff to review public lands with an eye toward opening them to ...
New Interior secretary orders review of monuments, public lands closed to mining, drilling
In one of his first secretarial orders, Doug Burgum ordered staff to review public lands with an eye toward opening them to ...
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Bureau of Land Management faces fresh challenge over oil and gas permitting
Groups like the Center for Biological Diversity and Sierra Club argue in their suit that the permitting violated the Clean ...
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This national park co-management plan considers Indigenous relationships with natural resources
A co-management plan is operating at Utah’s Bears Ears National Monument, and Kate Magargal, an anthropologist at the ...
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Hearing to focus on ‘ill-advised’ Biden public land actions
The Trump administration could seek to overturn a rule that puts conservation on par with other public land uses.
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Solar projects proposed for BLM land in 21 Road area
The Bureau of Land Management is considering two competing solar power project proposals that each would involve nearly 3,000 ...
Bureau of Land Management, oil companies sued over drilling permits in San Joaquin Valley
A lawsuit filed by the Center for Biological Diversity, the Sierra Club, Friends of the Earth, and the California Asthma Collective, claims the expansion of oil in California's San Joaquin Valley ...
Merkley, other U.S. senators urge reversal of Trump’s wildfire funding cuts
A coalition of Western U.S. senators has called for the immediate reversal of stop work orders issued by the Bureau of Land ...