Results for keyword: BLM
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This is the time to make land management make sense
Ed Quillen has suggestions for how to fix the West by consolidating the federal land agencies and charging people to build in Stupid Zones.
by Ed Quillen, Dec 22, 2008 -
Change we could believe in
How to fix the West by consolidating land agencies and charging people to build in Stupid Zones.
by Ed Quillen, Dec 22, 2008 -
Stuck in the PAWGmire
The Pinedale Anticline Working Group was supposed to give citizens input on the local oil and gas boom, but it hasn’t worked out as planned.
by Rebecca Huntington, Nov 18, 2008 -
While you were voting …
While the nation is distracted by the election, the Bush administration races ahead with environmental policy changes.
by Sarah Gilman , Nov 04, 2008 -
The great giveaway
Brand-new resource management plans from Utah’s BLM welcome ATVs and energy development onto some of the state’s most fragile land.
by Emily Steinmetz, Oct 13, 2008 -
Dust on the rocks
The results of a scientific study on the effects of dust on rock art are somehow “lost” in the haze of Barrett Corporation’s drilling in Utah’s Nine Mile Canyon.
by Keith Kloor, Aug 29, 2008 -
Roan on the auction block
The BLM auctioned leases on 54,631 acres in Western Colorado to the natural gas industry for a record $114 million.
by Emily Steinmetz, Andrea Appleton, Marty Durlin, Aug 08, 2008 -
Solar flip-flops and fish stories
BLM flip-flops on solar and expedites oil and gas; Western Governors’ Association talks about energy; more fossil fuel risks; good (and bad) salmon news.
by Ray Ring, Jul 20, 2008 -
Don’t trash Joshua Tree National Park
Seth Shteir is appalled at the prospect of a gigantic landfill planned for the fragile desert landscape next to Joshua Tree National Park.
by Seth Shteir, Jun 16, 2008 -
Two weeks in the West
On public lands throughout the West, hikers, bikers, horseback riders and off-roaders compete for trail space, while beleaguered land-managers struggle to come up with workable forest management plans.
by Sarah Gilman, Jun 09, 2008






