Tag: Bureau Of Land Management
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Millions of acres of Colorado public lands could be up for sale in Senate budget bill
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Some of Colorado’s most iconic public lands, including popular recreation areas, could be eligible for sale in the current version of Congress’s budget bill. The newest language requires the sale of 0.5% to 0.75% of U.S. Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management holdings in…
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From harsh rituals to hard-earned play, legends grow in this Colorado canyon
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save SAGUACHE COUNTY • Fields of crops and sage sprawl toward the Sangre de Cristo peaks in one direction, the San Juans in another, their wonders seemingly far away on this lonely, dusty stretch of U.S. 285. But here in the San Luis Valley, wonders tend…
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Colorado has one Wild and Scenic waterway. Could this be the next?
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Alongside photographers, Sinjin Eberle once found himself in a rather obscure part of Colorado that seemed to him in every way wild and scenic. The group started from the upper reaches of Deep Creek Canyon, from the same-named lake near 10,400 feet. From there, the…
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Judge weighs whether lawsuit can proceed alleging illegal mining in Garfield County
A federal judge is contemplating whether to allow Garfield County and a group of Glenwood Springs residents to proceed with their lawsuit against the federal agency that manages public lands, which allegedly has allowed illegal mining to occur for years at a quarry near the city. The Glenwood Springs Citizens’ Alliance first filed its complaint…
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Oil & gas leasing practice eliminated by Hickenlooper bill
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save A federal-lands leasing practice critics say allows oil and gas companies to unfairly gain control of publicly owned mineral resources was eliminated by a bill sponsored by U.S. Sen. John Hickenlooper that was included in President Joe Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act that became law Tuesday.…
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Son of U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack appointed as BLM Colorado State Director
Doug Vilsack, son of U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack, was appointed as the new Colorado State Director of the Bureau of Land Management Wednesday. Vilsack, the current assistant director for Colorado parks, wildlife and lands with the Colorado Department of Natural Resources, will begin work Aug. 14 at the state BLM offices in Lakewood.…
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Added land a ‘treasure’ in western Colorado red rock country
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Conservationists are celebrating land recently acquired in red-rock country of western Colorado. The 160-acre addition to Dominguez-Escalante National Conservation Area is small in the grand scope of the 209,000-plus preserve spanning the Uncompahgre Plateau between…
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Wild and Free: Where to see wild horses in Colorado
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save As a child in upstate New York in the 1950s, Marty Felix relished Sunday drives through the country with her dad. “Take us by some horses,” went her request. “I was a horse-loving girl,” she says. And so she remained, all the way through college…
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INSIGHTS | BLM lost diversity coming to Colorado, others shouldn’t follow
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Diversity was never Grand Junction’s long suit. We knew that two years ago, but nobody wanted to say anything when the Trump administration moved the headquarters for the Bureau of Land Management to Colorado. That was a daisy. The agency controls more than 245 million…
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Wild horses can’t be broken as a Western crisis looms | Joey Bunch
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The galloping pony with its mane flowing like a banner in the prairie wind is the enduring expression of the unbridled American West. If not for its flaming eyes and garish color, the rearing mustang…