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Richard Watts and his father Carl volunteer to help make barbed-wire fencing on BLM land in the Clarks Fork Canyon more big game friendly. Richard, age 13, has been a volunteer for the Absaroka Fence Initiative for three years. Photo by Mark Davis, Powell Tribune.
Conservation de-fence
POWELL — In celebration of the 30th anniversary of National Public Lands Day, the Bureau of Land Management Cody Field Office and the Absaroka Fence Initiative called on their growing list of volunteers to make the fences at the Clarks Fork Canyon watershed more big game...
CHEYENNE (WNE) — The Bureau of Land Management’s Wyoming State Office conducted a competitive oil and gas lease sale Wednesday, offering 81 parcels covering 67,183.78 acres in Wyoming. In total, 53 parcels covering 35,701.21 acres sold for $13,207,883.
The environmental assessment, maps, parcel...
A pronghorn sizes up an intruder in its habitat within the confines of Jonah Energy's Normally Pressured Lance gas field in August 2023. (Mike Koshmrl/WyoFile)
FROM WYOFILE:
Jonah Energy’s Normally Pressured Lance field in Sublette and Sweetwater counties clears the federal appeals court 5 years after the Bureau of Land Management signed off on the decision.
A panel of appellate judges has rejected a suite of claims brought by environmental advocates...
Rule would incentivize plugging, assist with reclamation efforts
BUFFALO — For decades, oil and gas boom and bust has been a predictable cycle in Johnson County and across Wyoming, with high prices encouraging a rush of drilling before a shift in the market leads to bankrupt companies, lost jobs...
Photo by Walter Sprague/NLJ
Chad Krause, field manager for the Newcastle Field Office of the Bureau of Land Management, spoke to a sizable crowd on Aug. 1 during a presentation at the Weston County Senior Center regarding upcoming changes to the Land Use Plan for the office.
After 23 years, the BLM is revising its resource management plan for the Newcastle Field Office and Nebraska planning area, which comprises the agency’s High Plains District. Despite the public’s desire to comment on and question the Bureau of Land Management’s proposed Land Conservation Rule at...
GILLETTE — The Sage Grouse Implementation Team has done a better job of communicating with the public when it comes to revising sage grouse core areas.
In late July, the group held meetings in Gillette, Pinedale and Evanston to discuss the potential changes.
When the proposed revisions to the...
An oil and gas drilling rig in Wyoming BLM’s High Desert District. (Wyoming BLM/FlickrCC)
FROM WYOFILE:
Federal minimum bonds began to stagnate in 1951. In a win for environmental groups, the Biden administration wants to hike some and do away with another.
The Bureau of Land Management is moving to modernize federal bonding requirements meant to ensure the cleanup of abandoned oil...
Public invited to comment
While a number of Wyoming residents and leaders — including the governor — have expressed concern over the Bureau of Land Management’s proposed Land Conservation Rule, the agency is also in the midst of an effort that could have an even greater impact on the people of...
FROM WYOFILE:
Agency in charge of the most ‘corner-locked’ land has not issued a formal directive to implement corner crossing.
Bureau of Land Management Director Tracy Stone-Manning said she directed her state offices to “implement” corner crossing, the Billings Gazette reported Thursday,...
GILLETTE — The process to revise what areas of the state are designated as core areas for the protection of sage-grouse is very much a work in progress, and a lot of work is yet to be done.
That was the message the sage-grouse Implementation Team tried to get across during a meeting in Lander...
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