Press Releases

The BLM Challis Field Office plans to apply aerial herbicide treatments on roughly 2,500 acres in Custer County between Sept. 21 and Oct. 5, 2026.

The Bureau of Land Management completed a wild horse gather operation in Idaho to improve rangeland health and ensure long-term well-being of the Challis wild horse herd. In total, BLM gathered and removed 226 wild horses from overpopulated rangelands.

The Bureau of Land Management today opened a 30-day public scoping period to receive public input on 54 oil and gas parcels totaling 58,601 acres that may be included in a March 2027 lease sale in Utah.

The Bureau of Land Management leased 40 parcels totaling 2,777 acres in the Wayne National Forest in Ohio for $11,097,693 in total receipts during a quarterly oil and gas lease sale, held yesterday.

The Bureau of Land Management began work today in the Wyoming Bighorn Basin’s Fifteenmile Herd Management Area to strengthen the long‑term health of the wild horse herd and the rangelands they rely on.

The Bureau of Land Management celebrates the winners of the 2026 Rangeland Stewardship and Innovation Awards. There are two permittee and two collaborative team winners, one each in stewardship and innovation.

Delivering on the Trump administration’s promise to expand American energy production and strengthen U.S. energy dominance, the Bureau of Land Management is offering opportunities for reliable energy development on public lands with a competitive geothermal lease sale on Oct. 27, 2026. The auction will be held online via EnergyNet, offering 19 parcels, approximately 40,000 acres in Modoc, Sonoma, Lake, Mono, Inyo, and Imperial counties in California.

The Bureau of Land Management recently held two quarterly oil and gas lease sales in Wyoming and Colorado, to the tune of $87,280,361 in total revenue.

The BLM’s plans to rescue horses on Riddle Mountain have been postponed due to a temporary restraining order related to ongoing litigation. The herd’s health is under immediate threat from severe food and water shortages.

The BLM today announced the sale of nearly 940 acres of public land to the City of Las Vegas for $94 million, clearing the way for development of up to 6,000 homes to help address an acute housing shortage.

The BLM has begun public scoping on 38 proposed oil and gas lease parcels in Colorado, totaling about 66,221 acres, that are under consideration for a March 2027 federal lease sale. Comments are welcome through Oct. 9.

The Bureau of Land Management will begin a wild horse gather today in the Challis Herd Management Area, approximately 20 miles south of Challis in Custer County, Idaho. The gather is necessary to protect the health of the wild horses that depend on the area’s rangelands, particularly during the winter, which have been heavily strained by long-term overpopulation and drought conditions.

The BLM published a national call for nominations in the Federal Register today to fill current and upcoming vacancies on 20 statewide and regional Resource Advisory Councils and two statutory councils.

BLM and the Southern Ute Indian Tribe are beginning a planning process for future tribal trust oil and gas development in the Mancos Shale. Public scoping meeting Sept. 24 in Ignacio. Comments due Oct. 9.

The Bureau of Land Management extended the comment period on proposed 30-year right-of-way renewal for Alaska’s famed Trans Alaska Pipeline System. The scoping period now closes on Sept. 17, 2026.

In a proactive step to reduce wildfire risk and invest in healthy, resilient public lands, the Bureau of Land Management Twin Falls District in south-central Idaho, partnering with the U.S. Wildland Fire Service, will conduct aerial herbicide treatments across approximately 27,135 acres of lands managed by the BLM Jarbidge and Shoshone field offices within Blaine, Elmore, Minidoka, Owyhee and Twin Falls counties. Treatments are scheduled to begin in September and continue through October 2026, depending on weather, wildfire activity and other operational conditions.

Public lands in southeastern New Mexico will advance the nation's surge toward Energy Dominance under a proposed final revision to a land-use plan for the Carlsbad Field Office.

The proposed rule aims to cut red tape and accelerate infrastructure development across the 23-million-acre National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska.

The Bureau of Land Management is celebrating the nation's 250th birthday and the BLM’s 80th anniversary with the grand opening of the Vernal Field Office’s McCoy Flats Campground near Vernal, Utah.

The Bureau of Land Management plans to begin a second emergency operation next week to rescue wild horses from another southeast Oregon herd whose health is under immediate threat from severe food and water shortages.

Emergency rescue operations begin tomorrow to save wild horses whose health is under immediate threat from severe food and water shortages. The BLM is initiating the lifesaving gather in southeast Oregon.

The Bureau of Land Management is considering a proposal to allow "no surface occupancy" oil and gas leasing on about 5,200 acres of the federal mineral estate underlying the Ouray National Wildlife Refuge near Vernal.

Fire restrictions remain in effect on all BLM public lands in Oregon and Washington as the region faces a record setting wildfire season. More than 2.5 million acres have already burned across the Northwest.

The Bureau of Land Management opens a 15-day scoping period on a proposed renewal of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System’s right-of-way.

The Bureau of Land Management today opened a 30-day public scoping period to receive public input on three oil and gas parcels totaling 5,230 acres that may be included in a March 2027 lease sale in Nevada.