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The Electric Slide BLM reverses stance on solar-project moratorium		03 Jul 2008	News
Posted at 7:12 AM on 03 Jul 2008 The U.S. Bureau of Land Management has reversed its recent moratorium on new applications for solar-energy projects on public land, allowing companies to keep submitting proposals for new solar projects. The solar-project freeze had been instituted in late May while the BLM began conducting a two-year study on the potential environmental impacts of solar projects on public lands; the agency said ...
Topics: Bureau of Land Management, news, public lands, solar thermal power, solar voltaic power, United States (all these topics)

The Comment People Public overwhelmingly opposes drilling on Coloradan plateau, say activists		27 Nov 2007	News
Posted at 5:01 PM on 27 Nov 2007 Conservationists have analyzed public comments on a Bureau of Land Management proposal to drill for oil and gas on Colorado's Roan Plateau and have come up with a tally: seven comments for drilling; approximately 42,000 against. Hm -- guess it's not a consensus then. source: The Daily Sentinel From the Archives Atlanta Paves. Housing slump is ...
Topics: Bureau of Land Management, Colorado, energy, grassroots activism, news, oil and gas drilling (all these topics)

Owl Be Seeing You Plan for northern spotted owl's recovery in question		18 Oct 2007	News
Posted at 5:57 AM on 18 Oct 2007 The future of the infamous northern spotted owl in the Pacific Northwest may be in further jeopardy if some U.S. federal agencies carry out their plans to restructure its recovery. Perhaps most potentially destructive is the Bureau of Land Management's recently announced plan to essentially opt out of the Northwest Forest Plan -- a truce of sorts between loggers and environmentalists that has ...
Topics: Bureau of Land Management, endangered species, news, United States, US EPA, US Fish and Wildlife Service (all these topics)

Teddy Would Be Proud Conservation organization sues feds over energy development		22 Aug 2007	Daily Grist
Teddy Would Be Proud Conservation organization sues feds over energy development The Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership has sued the U.S. Department of the Interior over the authorization of thousands of new oil and gas wells, roads, and miles of pipeline in a wildlife-rich area of Wyoming. News that an organization has sued the ...
Topics: Bureau of Land Management, Department of Interior, energy, news, oil and gas drilling, politics, wildlife, Wyoming (all these topics)

Do They Just Not Caribou? BLM offers yet another plan for drilling on Alaska's sensitive North Slope		22 Aug 2007	Daily Grist
Do They Just Not Caribou? BLM offers yet another plan for drilling on Alaska's sensitive North Slope In 1923, U.S. President Warren G. Harding designated 23 million acres on Alaska's North Slope as a national petroleum reserve. The ecologically sensitive northeast corner of the reserve -- which includes pristine Lake Teshekpuk and is vital habitat for breeding caribou and migrating bi ...
Topics: Alaska, Bureau of Land Management, energy, news, oil and gas drilling (all these topics)

Teddy would be proud Conservation organization sues feds over energy development	Grist	21 Aug 2007	Gristmill
The Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership has sued the Department of the Interior over the authorization of thousands of new oil and gas wells, roads, and miles of pipeline in a wildlife-rich area of Wyoming. News that an organization has sued the federal government over environmental travesties is, well, not really news -- unless it's TRCP, a non-litigious group with a largely Republican membership. The move is indicative that even the Bushies' natural allies are fed up ...
Topics: Bureau of Land Management, Department of Interior, energy, news, oil and gas drilling, politics, wildlife, Wyoming (all these topics)

Do they just not caribou? BLM offers yet another plan for drilling on Alaska's sensitive North Slope	Grist	21 Aug 2007	Gristmill
In 1923, President Warren G. Harding designated 23 million acres on Alaska's North Slope as a national petroleum reserve. The ecologically sensitive northeast corner of the reserve -- which includes pristine Lake Teshekpuk and is vital habitat for breeding caribou, migrating birds, and Inupiat Eskimos -- was closed to energy development by the Reagan, Bush Elder, and Clinton administrations. But damned if the current administration won't pull out all the stops trying to access ...
Topics: Alaska, Bureau of Land Management, energy, news, oil and gas drilling (all these topics)

Bad to the Roan BLM OKs drilling on Colorado's Roan Plateau, new grazing rules blocked		13 Jun 2007	Daily Grist
Bad to the Roan BLM OKs drilling on Colorado's Roan Plateau, new grazing rules blocked Steamrolling the opinions of various Colorado politicians, the U.S. Bureau of Land Management has OK'd oil and gas drilling on 73,602 acres of the Roan Plateau, known to be rich in both underground fossil fuels and aboveground wildlife. Two of Colorado's Democratic representatives had asked the BLM for a one-year ...
Topics: Bureau of Land Management, Colorado, oil and gas drilling (all these topics)

Is the government a criminal syndicate? The Supreme Court considers an extortion suit against federal land managers	Justin Pidot	22 Mar 2007	Gristmill
The Supreme Court heard argument in a curious case this week. No, I'm not talking about the celebrated 'Bong Hits for Jesus' case. The second case on Monday's docket involved an Alabaman turned Wyoming rancher claiming that government bureaucrats had engaged in extortion by enforcing the letter of the law. An appellate court in Denver, Colo., ruled that Harvey Frank Robbins (the rancher) could sue Charles Wilkie and other Bureau of Land Management employees under the ...
Topics: Bureau of Land Management, litigation, placemaking, public lands (all these topics)

Things That Go Dump in the Night Illegal dumps sprout up across the American West		10 Oct 2006	Daily Grist
Things That Go Dump in the Night Illegal dumps sprout up across the American West Amber waves of grain? Purple mountain majesties? These days in the American West, it's illegal dumps that are proliferating under the spacious skies: heaps of car parts, furniture, appliances, and household trash discarded on public land. The Bureau of Land Management has identified 6,482 illegal dumps since 2000, p ...
Topics: Bureau of Land Management, news, pollution and waste, West (all these topics)

Not Management Material BLM slacks on environmental monitoring in Wyoming		01 Sep 2006	Daily Grist
Not Management Material BLM slacks on environmental monitoring in Wyoming For the past six years, the Bureau of Land Management has been slacking on its commitment to assess and limit the impact of natural-gas drilling on wilderness in western Wyoming, says, um, the Bureau of Land Management. A leaked internal assessment for the BLM's Pinedale, Wyo., field office declare ...
Topics: Bureau of Land Management, energy, mining and drilling, natural gas, news, Wyoming (all these topics)

The Definition of Insanity Bush administration will open 8 million Alaskan acres to oil drilling		25 Aug 2006	Daily Grist
The Definition of Insanity Bush administration will open 8 million Alaskan acres to oil drilling As only makes sense following a disaster in northern Alaska involving oil spills and corroded pipelines, the Bush administration next month plans to open 8 million northwestern Alaska acres to oil and natural gas development. The area, in the National Petroleum Reserve, co ...
Topics: Alaska, Bureau of Land Management, energy, news, oil, oil and gas drilling, wildlife (all these topics)

This Land Is Poorly Managed Land BLM accused of not preserving cultural sites		17 May 2006	Daily Grist
This Land Is Poorly Managed Land BLM accused of not preserving cultural sites Hundreds of millions of acres of public lands are going unprotected, with their historical artifacts undocumented, as the Bush administration focuses Bureau of Land Management funds and staffing resources on energy development in the West, according to a new report from the National Trust for Historic Preservation. Under a feder ...
Topics: Bureau of Land Management, news, West, wilderness (all these topics)

You Want a Lease of Me? Wyoming governor opposes federal drilling leases in national forest		03 Apr 2006	Daily Grist
You Want a Lease of Me? Wyoming governor opposes federal drilling leases in national forest Wyoming is plenty bullish on a local natural-gas boom -- but Gov. Dave Freudenthal (D) has put his foot down at the Wyoming Range, asking the Bureau of Land Management and the U.S. Forest Service to halt sales of drilling leases on 19,000 acres of western Wyoming's Bridger-Teton Nati ...
Topics: Bureau of Land Management, mining and drilling, news, US Forest Service, Wyoming (all these topics)

Flame! I Wanna Log Forever Congress debates measure that would speed up salvage logging		16 Mar 2006	Daily Grist
Flame! I Wanna Log Forever Congress debates measure that would speed up salvage logging We interrupt our ongoing coverage of global-warming doom and gloom to update you on logging doom and gloom. A bill in the U.S. House would force the Forest Service, the Bureau of Land Management, and other agencies to issue decisions on timber sales on public lands that have been burned or hit by o ...
Topics: Bureau of Land Management, logging, news, politics, US Forest Service (all these topics)

Truce Almighty It's time for conservationists to make common cause with the Forest Service		28 Feb 2006	Daily Grist

Topics: Bureau of Land Management, Earth First!, logging, national forests, US Forest Service (all these topics)

Guess That Makes Us Punstitutes BLM focuses on drilling at expense of wildlife, critics charge		23 Feb 2006	Daily Grist
Guess That Makes Us Punstitutes BLM focuses on drilling at expense of wildlife, critics charge Wildlife biologists at the Bureau of Land Management office in Pinedale, Wyo., are finding their talents put to unusual use: reviewing drilling-permit requests. Western Wyoming has been a natural-gas drilling mecca for the last five years, during which its populations of mule deer and bree ...
Topics: Bureau of Land Management, mining and drilling, news, wildlife, Wyoming (all these topics)

Public Land Enemy No. 1 White House wants to auction off 300,000 acres of public land		13 Feb 2006	Daily Grist
Public Land Enemy No. 1 White House wants to auction off 300,000 acres of public land The Bush administration has proposed a sell-off of over $1 billon worth of public land over the next five to 10 years. Proceeds from the auctions of more than 300,000 acres of Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management holdings would largely go to rural schools and roads, funding for which has been cut by, ...
Topics: Bureau of Land Management, news, US Forest Service, wilderness (all these topics)

Well, They Had to Chop Something BLM suspends funding for forestry research that contradicts Bush policy		07 Feb 2006	Daily Grist
Well, They Had to Chop Something BLM suspends funding for forestry research that contradicts Bush policy The Bureau of Land Management has abruptly suspended funding for a team of scientists who published findings undercutting a Bush administration timber policy. The Oregon State University researchers' report, published last month in the journal Science, suggested that forests scorched in southwest Oregon ...
Topics: Bureau of Land Management, logging, news, Oregon (all these topics)

EI, EI, No Bush admin waives environmental assessments in public-lands energy rush		20 Oct 2005	Daily Grist
EI, EI, No Bush admin waives environmental assessments in public-lands energy rush This past summer's energy bill contained provisions making it easier to drill on public lands -- and for the Bush administration, that's like waving a red flag in front of a bull. The Bureau of Land Management recently told field managers to omit environmental reviews and public-comment periods for some oil and gas permit ...
Topics: Bureau of Land Management, mining and drilling, news (all these topics)

Cattle Star Redactica Bush admin alters science to support expanded grazing on public lands		20 Jun 2005	Daily Grist
Cattle Star Redactica Bush admin alters science to support expanded grazing on public lands In developing new proposed regulations for cattle grazing on public lands, the Bush administration intentionally obscured the damage grazing causes, according to two government scientists. Erick Campbell and Bill Brookes, both recently retired from the Bureau of Land Management, determined in an environmental i ...
Topics: Bureau of Land Management, news, wilderness, wildlife (all these topics)

Access of Evil Gas drilling limited by equipment, workers -- not access to federal land		28 Apr 2005	Daily Grist
Access of Evil Gas drilling limited by equipment, workers -- not access to federal land To hear the Bush administration tell it, domestic energy production is limited by lack of access to federal lands. Vice President Dick Cheney is galled that "large parts of the Rocky Mountain West are off-limits." But according to government records, industry experts, and local offici ...
Topics: Bureau of Land Management, energy, mining and drilling, natural gas, news (all these topics)

Ay, Chihuahua! New drilling approved for New Mexico's Otero Mesa		25 Jan 2005	Daily Grist
Ay, Chihuahua! New drilling approved for New Mexico's Otero Mesa The Bureau of Land Management yesterday made the final decision to open nearly 2 million acres of Chihuahuan desert grassland in southern New Mexico to oil and gas drilling. The Bush administration insists that drilling in the area, known as Otero Mesa, won't be a "free-for-all," as the BLM's plan calls f ...
Topics: Bill Richardson, Bureau of Land Management, mining and drilling, New Mexico (all these topics)

Hope Against Slope Bush admin poised to open sensitive Alaska North Slope land to drilling		24 Jan 2005	Daily Grist
Hope Against Slope Bush admin poised to open sensitive Alaska North Slope land to drilling The Bush administration plans to open to drilling more than 400,000 acres of Alaska's North Slope thought to be vital to migratory birds and caribou, after the Bureau of Land Management determined that drilling can be done with "minimum impact" on wildlife. Interior Secretary Gale Nort ...
Topics: Alaska, Bureau of Land Management, energy, oil, oil and gas drilling (all these topics)

Mustang Silly Herd of Wild Horses Gets in Way of Bush Admin's Drilling Plans		13 Sep 2004	Daily Grist
Mustang Silly Herd of Wild Horses Gets in Way of Bush Admin's Drilling Plans It may come as a surprise to some that the U.S. is still home to about 27,000 wild, free-roaming mustangs, not yet driven from their open ranges by human development. But just wait. The Bureau of Land Management is set to round up one of Colorado's five remaining mustang herds and remove it from its terrain in ...
Topics: Bureau of Land Management, Colorado, mining and drilling, wildlife (all these topics)

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