Bureau of Land Management
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...
POWELL — With more than 245 million acres of public land within the Bureau of Land Management’s charge, the agency has released a report charting a course for “significant and expanding roles” as one of the largest national providers of outdoor recreation opportunities, the agency announced last...
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...
Anonymous $25,000 donation purchased devices
BUFFALO — After the installation of nearly a dozen new automated external defibrillators, or AEDs, in Buffalo and Kaycee this summer, the life-saving devices will be even easier for bystanders to access in case of cardiac arrest.
A group of local...
BUFFALO — When it comes to plugging oil and gas wells in the Powder River Basin, what comes to mind first is often heavy machinery, loads of concrete and taxpayer money being funneled straight into the ground.
But for the team at the Bureau of Land Management Field Office in Buffalo, the trick to...
AFTON (WNE) — The BLM Rock Springs Field Office began revising its 1997 Green River RMP in 2010, and the process has experienced significant delays ever since.
With its Notice of Availability published on Thursday, August 17, the BLM announced that over 1.8 million acres, half of the 3.6...
A deer hunter glasses for game on the flanks of Little Mountain. (Steven Brutger)
FROM WYOFILE:
Update will guide management of 3.6 million acres of public lands in Rock Springs Field Office, including Red Desert and migration corridors.
The Bureau of Land Management on Thursday released a long-awaited draft plan that will steer the management of some 3.6 million acres of...
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...
Angi Bruce, deputy director of the Wyoming Game and Fish Department, during a July 2023 meeting at the Sublette County Library in Pinedale. (Mike Koshmrl/WyoFile)
FROM WYOFILE:
Conservationists cheer delay in formalizing oil and gas lease sale, but call for broader actions to conserve heralded migration corridor.
Citing concerns over migration, the Wyoming Office of State Lands and Investments delayed finalizing a lease sale that could allow development...
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...
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