Tag: BLM

December 2, 2021

BLM considers updating sage-grouse management plans

The U.S. Bureau of Land Management is gathering new information and reviewing recent science on greater sage-grouse as it considers updating management plans for the species. The agency announced its...

November 23, 2021

BLM releases wild horse research plan

The Bureau of Land Management released a research plan that aims to chart a new course for wild horse and burro management, using scientific advances to control the feral populations...

October 13, 2021

Senate confirms Stone-Manning as BLM director

The U.S. Senate confirmed the appointment of Tracy Stone-Manning as director of the Bureau of Land Management in a party-line vote. The senior adviser for conservation policy at the National...

September 24, 2021

BLM withdraws cattle from tortoise habitat in California

The Bureau of Land Management reversed its recent decision to allow a rancher to move cattle through Mojave desert tortoise (Gopherus agassizii) habitat on federal lands in the California Desert...

September 23, 2021

BLM headquarters moving back to D.C.

The Bureau of Land Management’s headquarters will be moving back to Washington, D.C., Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland announced to agency staff last week. In August 2020, the agency’s headquarters...

September 16, 2021

BLM removing wild horses across West

The U.S. Bureau of Land Management is in the process of removing over 700 wild horses from the Sand Wash Basin Herd Management Area and adjacent property in northwest Colorado...

August 26, 2021

BLM reconsiders mineral extraction on 10 million acres

The U.S. Bureau of Land Management is reconsidering preventing new mining, drilling or other mineral extraction in areas identified as important for sage-grouse management. The agency’s 2015 plan for management...

July 14, 2021

Wild horse and burro populations decrease in past year

The number of wild horses and burros on public lands has decreased for the first time in almost a decade, according to a new report from the Bureau of Land...

June 29, 2021

Biden administration fills key leadership positions

Five months into the Biden U.S. administration, leadership at the Departments of the Interior and Agriculture is falling into place. Deb Haaland, an enrolled member of the Pueblo of Laguna,...

June 3, 2021

Administration reconsiders BLM relocation

A position statement developed by a group of retirees is the latest development in a growing effort to bring the headquarters for the Bureau of Land Management, which is now...